Genus Desvoidya. 163 



further worked out (Proc. Soc. Queensland, pp. 67-80, pis. iii. 

 vii., Colledge). 



Mucidus africanus. Theobald. 



Mono. Culicid. I., p. 274 (1901), and III., p. 134 (1903), Theobald ; Handbk. 

 Gnats, 2nd ed., p. 349 (1902) ; Les Moustiques, p. 245 (1905), Blanchard. 



Additional localities. — Transvaal (C. B. Simpson) ; Natal 

 (C. Fuller). 



Genus DESVOIDYA. Blanchard. 



nov. nom for Armigeres. Theobald, 

 (non Armiger. Hartmann.) 



Mono. Culicid. I., p. 322 (1901),tand III., p. 383 (1903), Theobald; Handbk. 

 Gnats, 2nd ed., p. 384 (1902), Giles ; C. R. de la Soc. de Biologie, LIIL, 

 p. 1045 (1901), Blanchard ; Les Moustiques, p. 265 (1905), Blanchard ; 

 Gen. Ins. Fam. Culicid., p. 17 (1905), Theobald. 



No new species have been found, but Miss Ludlow has 

 described a new variety of fusca — which seems to me to deserve 

 specific rank. 



The species tabulate as below : — 



Thorax uniformly bronzy-brown in the middle, pale 

 at sides. 

 Scutellum with pale scales at the sides, dark in 



middle obturbans. Walker. 



Scutellum all dark scaled fusca. Theobald. 



Thorax elaborately adorned panalectros. Giles. 



Thorax with a short median white line running from 



scutellum to level of the wing roots joloensis. Ludlow. 



Desvoidya obturbans. Walker (1860). 

 Culex obturbans. Walker (1860). 

 Culex ventralis. Walker (1865). 



Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. IV., p. 91 (1860) ; Proc. Linn. Soc. Zool. V., p. 144 

 (1861), Walker; ibidem, p. 229 (1861); ibidem, VII., p. 202 (1864); 

 VIII., p. 103 (1865) (= ventralis), Walker; Handbk. Gnats, pp. 338, 339 

 (1901) ; 2nd ed., p. 385 (1901), Giles; Mono. Culicid. I., p. 323 (1901) ; 

 Proc. Roy. Soc. LXIX., p. 384 (1902), Theobald; Mono. Culicid. III., 

 p. 138 (1903), Theobald ; Les Moust., p. 266 (1905), Blanchard. 



New locality. — Philippine Islands (Miss Ludlow). " Bred from 

 large larvae from under overhanging rock, in a deep pool of a 



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