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1. A. catasticta, Knab, Ent. News, XX, p. 387 (1909). 



A. squammipenna, Theo., Mon. Cul. II, p. 219 (1901), part (nee Aedes squami- 

 pennis, Arrib.). 



Knab described A. catasticta from the Philippine Islands, and says of it, 

 " This species much resembles Aedeomyia squamipennis Arrib., but differs in 

 many details, and these differences appear to be constant. In A. squamipennis 

 the proboscis has a broader white ring and the spot behind it is larger and yellow 

 while the apical white ring is very narrow. In A. squamipennis the palpi, besides 

 the white apex, have a large yellow patch in the middle. On the mesonotum 

 the ocher-yellow scales are distributed nearly over the entire surface and the 

 white spots on the wings are much smaller than in the Philippine specimens. 

 The male genitalia of the two species show specific differences." Before reading 

 Knab's description I had separated the British Museum series of Aedomyia 

 squamipennis into two species, one occurring in S. America only and the other 

 from the Ethiopian and Oriental regions ; on comparing the latter with the des- 

 cription of A. catasticta, it was found to apply in almost every detail both to the 

 African specimens and those from the Oriental region. To the distinctions given 

 by Knab between A. catasticta and A. squamipennis I can add another which 

 seems to be constant and is easily seen ; the white ring embracing the tip of the 

 metatarsus and the base of the second tarsal joint of the hind legs is narrow in 

 A. squamipennis, but broad and rather conspicuous in A. catasticta. 



Sudan; S. Nigeria; N. Nigeria; Gold Coast. 



2. A. africana, Neveu-Lemaire, Arch. Parasit. X, p. 273 (1906). 



Differs from A. catasticta in having the palpi entirely dark brown, the proboscis 

 has only a median pale ring. 

 Dufile. 



Genus Taeniorhynchus, Arrib. 



Kev. Mus. La Plata, II, p. 147 (1891). 



Panoplites, Theo., Mon. Cul. II, p. 173 (1901). 



Mansonia, Blanch., C.-E, Soc. Biol. LIII, p. 1046 (1901). 



Coquillettidia, Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. VII, p. 47 (1905). 



Rhynchotaenia, Brethes, An. Mus. Buenos Ayres, XX, p. 470 (1910). 



Pseudotacniorhynchus, Theo., Novae Culicidae, I, p. 19 (1911). 

 Theobald substitutes the name Pseudotacniorhynchus for those species which 

 he formerly included in Taeniorhynchus, his Panoplites (= Mansonia) sinking 

 under Taeniorhynchus, Arrib. But T. fasciolatus, Arrib., which Theobald 

 specified as the type of his modification of Arribalzaga's genus, is quite a typical 

 Taeniorhynchus, and hence Pseudotaeniorhynchus, Theo., is synonymous with 

 Taeniorhynchus, Arrib. According to the Zoological Record for 1910, Brethes 

 had previously substituted Rhynchotaenia for Taeniorhynchus, Theo.; I have 

 been unable to consult this paper. 



3. T. aurites, Theo., Mon. Cul. II, p. 209 (1901). 



Chrysoconops fraseri, Theo. (Novae Culicidae, I, p. 22, 1911), is a synonym. 



