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segments, the last segment with dark stifP thorn-like chaet^, 

 becoming small towards the apex. Ungues of the fore and mid 

 legs unequal, the fore with a small tooth at the base of the smaller 

 one, a large tooth in the middle of the larger claw and a small 

 spine-like tooth at its base, mid claws with two teeth on the larger 

 claw ; none on the smaller ; hind claws equal and simple. 



Wings with small fork-cells like the female; the submarginal 

 only about half the width of the second posterior-cell, its stem 

 about one-and-a-third times its length ; stem of the second poster- 

 ior also about one-and-a-third times the length of the cell ; the first 

 long vein markedly bent in the middle and approaching the upper 

 branch of the second, thus forming a very curious marginal cell ; 

 the posterior cross-vein is only half its own length distant from 

 the mid. 



Length 3*5 to 4 mm. 



75/^6/^;^^ Calcutta; Berhampur. Murshidabad District^ Bengal, 

 i-i-08 [R. E. Lloyd]. 



Time of capture November and December in Calcutta, and one 

 in July, common in brushwood during the cold weather \^N. Annan- 

 dale]; January at Berhampur. 



Observations. — Described from a long series, some taken at 

 light. The specimens show some variation in size and colour, but 

 the marked black shiny thorax with the clear-cut yellow area on 

 each side and the quaint marginal cell will at once identify it. 



19. Pseudotheohaldia niveitceniata , Theobald. 

 Theog, 8,000 ft., Simla Hills, 2-V-07 [N. Annandale]. 



20. Banksiella luteolateralis , Theobald. 

 Sylhet, Assam [Major Hall], 23-xi-04 and x-04, 



21. Culex mimeticus , 'Noe. 

 lyushai Hills, Assam [E. C. Macleod], i-vi-04, one 2 . 



22. Culex microannulatus , Theobald. 



Calcutta, July (7), August (71), September (11), October (4), 

 November (21) ; Purneah, N. Bengal, August (8); Gopkuda Island, 

 Ivake Chilka, Ganjam, August (3); Sylhet, Assam, January (10), 

 February (5), April (i). May (i), November and December; between 

 Bolpore and Rampore Haut, E. I. Railway, Bengal, in railway 

 carriage, August (i). 



23. Culex vishnui , Theobald. 



Sylhet, Assam [Major Hall], January and February; Port 

 Canning, Lower Bengal, July (i); Gopkuda Island, Lake Chilka, 

 Ganjam, August (i). 



