XXX. FIRST REPORT ON THE COLIvECTION 

 OF CUIvlCID^ AND CORETHRID^ IN 

 THE INDIAN MUSEUM, CAI.CUTTA, WITH 

 DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW GENERA AND 

 SPECIES. 



By Frkd, V. Theobai^d, MA., etc. 



Amongst the first consignment of the large collection of mos- 

 quitoes sent me to examine by the Indian Museum, Calcutta, only 

 thirty-seven species were found. Amongst these are three new 

 species of Stegomyia ; a new variet}^ of Neomacleaya indica, Theo- 

 bald ; a new Leicesteria ; a new Culex ; a new Chrysoconops and two 

 new genera I have called Brevirhynchus and Radioculex , each oi 

 which contains but a single species. Both of these genera are very 

 marked. 



An examination of a long series of a Culex with banded pro- 

 boscis has not been critically made, but I am inclined to believe 

 that they all belong to one species, owing to the various grada- 

 tions seen in it, and that in consequence several of the species 

 coming under the Culex micro amudatus group, such as C. vishnui. 

 etc., will have to be sunk under one of the old names such as 

 C. sitiens. The same applies to the genus Desvoidea, as the series 

 shows such great variation in colour. 



The numbers in brackets refer to the number of specimens in 

 the collection. 



SPECIES IN THE COLLECTION. 



Family CULICID^. ^ 



I. Anopheles aitkenii. Theobald-James. 



A single ? and badly damaged cf . Meenglas, Dooars, Jalpai- 

 guri [C. WallicJi], g-viii-o/. These are the only other specimens of 

 this Anopheles 1 hdc^Q seen since those sent me by Capt. James, 

 I.M.S. {vide Man. Culicid., vol. iii, p. 22, 1903). 



2. Myzomyia rossii, Giles. 



Five specimens taken at light at Calcutta in November ; 

 eighteen taken in December at Port Canning , Lower Bengal, and 

 one taken in January at Sylhet, Assam. 



i The majority of the Anophelinae in the collection were not sent to Mr. 

 Theobald. — Ed., Rec. Ind. Mus. 



