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Gouflay^, June and September, in a stable and bungalow ; 

 Gopkuda Island, Lake Chilka, Ganjam, August, 7-15 p.m. (2) ; 

 Bhogaon^ Purneah District, N. Bengal [C.A. Paiva], October (24); 

 Calcutta, November (17), some at light; Katihar, Purneah District, 

 N. Bengal [C.A. Paiva], October (17). 



34. Mansonioides annulifera, Theobald. 



Calcutta, August and December (2) ; Port Canning, L. Bengal, 

 December [N. Annandale] ] Manipur [C. A. Gourlay] ; Katihar, 

 Purneah District, N. Bengal [C A. Paiva], October; Sylhet, Assam 

 [Major Hall], May (4), June (3). 



N.B. — This species comes in the genus Mansonioides, Theob., 

 not Mansonia. 



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Mimomyia minuta, sp. no v. 



Head dull ochreous brown, proboscis long and thin, unhanded. 



Thorax dark shiny brown, pale ochreous at the sides. 



Abdomen deep brown with basal creamy yellow bands and 

 pale basal lateral spots. 



Legs brown with narrow pale bands involving both sides of 

 the joints. 



& . Head small, triangular in outline, clothed with small flat 

 dull ochreous scales behind and dull brown darker ones in front, 

 some large black upright forked scales behind ; antennae long, 

 brown, basal segment shiny reddish brown with a long bristle, 

 second segment long longer than the next three, pale at its base, 

 hairs moderate, (not plumose); proboscis deep brovs^n, long and 

 thin, swollen apically, nearly as long as the whole body ; clj'peus 

 small, triangular, dark brown ; palpi very short, thick and conical. 



Thorax deep shiny brown, with brown chsetae (denuded), some 

 narrow-curved bronzy brown scales showing ; scutellum black with 

 narrow-curved bronzy brown scales with deep brown border- 

 bristles, four to the mid lobe ; metanotum deep brown, paler in the 

 middle ; pleura pale ochreous with an irregular dark central patch. 



Abdomen deep brown, the segments with basal creamy bands 

 which are contracted in the middle and which spread out laterally 

 to form basal lateral spots, posterior border-bristles pale golden ; 

 venter banded with dull white, black and ochreous scales, the 

 latter apical, the black colour median. 



Legs brown, base and venter of femora yellowish, knee-spots 

 dull white, the joints of the tibiae and tarsi with narrow yellow 

 bands involving both sides of the joints. 



Wings with a single row of small spatulate median vein-scales, 

 and some large narrowly pyriform lateral vein-scales ; costa spinose, 

 foxk-cells of nearly equal length, the first submarginal a little 

 narrower than the second poscerior, its stem nearly as long as the 

 cell, stem of the second posterior cell about two-thirds the length 

 of the ceil , the base of the second fork-cell nearer the base of the 



