﻿26 F. W. EDWARDS — A SYNOPSIS OF THE SPECIES OF 



3a. T. microannulatus, Theo. (Chrysoconops), Novae Culicidae, I, p. 26 (1911). 



This is a distinct species, but closely allied to T. aurites from which it differs 

 principally in the colour of the hind legs : in T, aurites the tibia has a median 

 dark ring and a dark tip, the first three tarsal joints have rather broad apical 

 dark bands, and the last two are entirely dark ; in T. microannulatus, on the 

 contrary, the hind tibia is entirely yellow, and the tarsal joints are only very 

 narrowly black at the apex. In the male the palpi are entirely yellow, not 

 spotted with black as in T. aurites. The oriental T. ochraceus, Theo., differs 

 in having a small black ring near the tip of the hind femora, and blackish marks 

 at the base and apex of the hind tibiae. T. ochraceus has been redescribed by 

 Knab (Ent. News, 1909, p. 386) as Mansonia chrysogona, owing to an error in 

 the original description, Theobald stating that the upright scales of the head are 

 black, when actually they are yellow. The specimens recorded from Bahr-el- 

 Jabel, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, by Theobald, as T. aurites (First Rept. Welle. 

 Lab., p. 77) are not that species, but T. microannulatus. 



Sudan ; Uganda. 



4. T. annettii, Theo., Mon. Cul. II, p. 205 (1901). 



Add to synonymy : Chrysoconops maculipennis, Theo., Novae Culicidae, I, 

 p. 27 (1911). 



5. T. cristatus, Theo., First Rep. Welle, Lab., p. 78 (1904). 



Additional localities : Portuguese Congo (San Salvador, Dr. M. Gamble) ; 

 Sierra Leone {Dr. J. C. Murphy). 



6. T. fuscopennatus, Theo., Mon. Cul. Ill, p. 265 (1903). 



Add to synonymy : Chrysoconops baker i, Theo., Novae Culicidae, I, p. 19 

 (1911); Culex grandidieri, Blanchard, Les Moust., p. 627 (1905); and Culex 

 flavus, Ventrillon, Bull. Mus. Paris, X, p. 550 (1904), (nee C.flavus, Motschulsky, 

 1859). 



Ventrillon describes the dorsal surface of the abdomen as entirely yellow, but 

 the mesonotum as brown and not black. Specimens (four Q ) answering to this 

 description have been received from Zanzibar (Dr. W. M. Aders), but I do not 

 think they are specifically distinct from T. fuscopennatus, in which the abdomen 

 is banded. T. cristatus is distinguished from these Zanzibar examples only by 

 its black mesonotum, and may therefore prove to be merely a variety of this 

 species. 



Taeniorhynchus perturbans, Walk., has been recorded as African by Laveran 

 and Blanchard, and their records have been copied by Bezzi and Neveu-Lemaire. 

 Reference to this species was inadvertently omitted in my previous paper, but it 

 is very unlikely that T. perturbans is really an African species, since it was 

 first described from the United States, and is now quite well known there. 

 Prof. Blanchard and Dr. Laveran both inform me that the specimens on which 

 the records were founded have been lost, so that there is no possibility of 

 verifying them, but it seems quite possible that the species in question was really 

 Mansonioides uniformis, especially since Dr. Laveran says it was very abundant 



