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



29. 0. cumminsi, Theo., Mon. Cul. Ill, p. 214 (1903). 



Additional locality : British East Africa (S. slopes of Mt. Elgon, 5100- 

 5800 ft., 8-13.vi.ll., S. A, Neave) ; three small females, typical in other 

 respects. 

 It is highly improbable that the egg-raft figured by Theobald (Mon. Cul. V, 

 p. 395) has anything to do with this species. 



Genus Mansonioides, Theo. 

 Mon. Cul. IV, p. 498 (1907). 

 ? Etorleptiomyia, Theo., First Eept. Welle. Lab., p. 71 (1904). 

 ? Etiorleptiomyia, Theo., Mon. Cul. V, p. 454 (1910). 

 ? Etorilepidomyia, Alcock (emend.), Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) VIII, p. 249 



(1911). 

 Diceromyia, Theo., Fourth Kept. Welle. Lab., Vol. B, p. 151 (1911). 

 The genus Diceromyia was founded on characters of the male genitalia of a 

 species (from the Sudan) which must be very close indeed to Mansonioides nigra, 

 Theo. Apart from the forked claspers, however, there does not seem to be any 

 great peculiarity in this insect, which I have not seen. The description of the 

 male palpi is quite sufficient to show that Diceromyia is synonymous with 

 Mansonioides, and the close resemblance of the female to M. nigra removes any 

 doubt that that species is correctly placed here. D. africana Q is said to differ 

 from M. nigra in the absence of the white bands of the palpi and of the irregular 

 white apical bands to the abdominal segments, and also in the fore and mid 

 claws being toothed. This last statement is in all probability an error, as no 

 member of the Culex-Taeniorhynchus group has toothed claws in the female. 

 The name africana is preoccupied in this genus. 



M. (?) mediolineata, Theo. (Etorleptiomyia), FirstRept. Welle. Lab., p. 71 (1904). 



Etorleptiomyia medio punctata, Theo., Gen. Ins. Culicidae, p. 44 (1905). 



Anisocheleomyia quadrimaculata, Newstead, Ann. Trop. Med. l,p. 32 (1907). 

 In comparing the types of E. mediolineata and A. quadrimaculata the only 

 differences I could detect were slight ones in the wing-markings, and it seems best 

 to regard these as within the range of individual variation, especially as the two 

 previously recorded specimens differ in this respect. The markings of the wings 

 recall those so often found in Anopheles, e.g. A. costalis. So far as I can see 

 there is no difference in breadth between the two claws on any of the legs of the 

 type of A. quadrimaculata. 



Additional locality : Upper Shire River, Nyasaland, 3. viii. 11 (Dr. J. B. 



Davey). 



Leicester describes as Etorleptiomyia completiva a very distinct species (from 



one male), which from the structure of the proboscis and palpi is evidently an 



Ingramia (see p. 43). He says the wing-scales are exactly as in E. mediolineata. 



Genus Aedomyia, Theo. (emend.) 

 Aedeomyia, Theo., Mon. Cul. II, p. 218 (1901). 

 The relationships of this genus seem to be with Taeniorhynchus, as is indicated 

 (1) by the structure of the male claws ; (2) by the broad dense wing-scales. 



