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FURTHER NOTES ON AFRICAN CULICIDAE. 



By F. W. Edwards, B.A., F.E.S. 



(Published by permission of t lie Trustees of the British Museum,) 



The following notes consist of corrections and additions to my previous papers 

 on African Culicidae. Several errors have become apparent, due either to 

 carelessness or insufficient study of the material available, or insufficiency of the 

 material itself. These are corrected. One or two apparently new species have 

 been received and are now described ; the description of one or two others, 

 owing to the scanty material and doubtful systematic position, is left for a 

 future paper. 



Anopheles ardensis, Theo. 



Reference to Myzomyia pyretophoroides^ Theo. (Mon. Cul. iv, 1907, p. 48), 

 which is a synonym of this, was accidentally omitted. 



Toxorhynchites barbipes, sp. now 



c5*. Closely resembles T, brevipalpis, Theo., in all respects except that the 

 first joint of the hind tarsus is thickly clothed with long black hair. This is a most 

 striking character and is not found in any other member of the genus, or, indeed, 

 in any other mosquito. It hardly seems possible that this could be a mere 

 individual variation, and I therefore regard it as a distinct species, though it 

 seems to differ in no other way from T. brevipalpis. 



Uganda: 1 <$ (type), Mpanga Forest, Toro, 4,800 ft., 13-23 xi. 1911 

 (S. A. Neave). 



Presented to the British Museum by the Imperial Bureau of Entomology. 



Banksinella taeniarostris, Theo. 



It was previously suggested that this might be a variety of B. hit col at oral is. 

 Theo. This is improbable. The hind femora were wrongly stated to be " all 

 dark above " ; in reality they are yellow at the tip and have a yellow dorsal line 

 on the basal two-thirds ; in this the species much resembles B. punctocostalis, 

 Theo., in which the black ring of the hind femora is near but not at the apex, as 

 previously stated. Both B. taeniarostris and B. punctocostalis have the abdomen 

 black above, the lateral yellow spots being produced towards the middle of 

 segments 5, 6 and 7. In B, luteolateralis the abdomen usually (though not 

 invariably) has prominent yellow basal median as well as lateral spots on each 

 segment. Theobald's B. chrysothorax is the male of B. taeniarostris and not of 

 B. luteolateralis. 



Banksinella luteolateralis var. albicosta nov. 



Q. Differs from typical B, luteolateralis as follows : — Yellow scales of head, 

 thorax, abdomen and wings replaced by creamy-white ones ; scales of mesonotum 

 only slightly darker in the middle, so that the whole mesonotum appears whitish 



