494 A Monograph of Cidicidae. 



Genus MANSONIA. Blanchard (nov. nom.). 



Panoplites. Theobald. 

 TaeniorJiynclms. Arribalzaga. 



Mono. Culicid. II., p. 173 (1901) and III., p. 269 (1903) Theobald; C. r. Soc. 

 Biol., Paris, No. 37, Vol. LIIL, p. 1046 (1901), Blanchard (nov. nom.) ; 

 Dipt. Argent., p. 47 (1891), Arribalzaga. 



This genus was founded on Walker's Culex titillans on account 

 of the broad wing scales. 



Arribalzaga founded the genus Taeniorhynchus on Culex 

 taeniorhynchus, Wiedemann, and made Culex titlllans, Walker, Culex 

 sollicitans, Walker, and Culex damnosus, Say, synonymous. The 

 hrst three are totally distinct and clearly come in three separate 

 genera. I fear however that Arribalzaga has described Walker's 

 titillans as Culex taeniorhynchus, and certainly figures a Mansonia 



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Fig. 224. 



Ova of Mansonia titillans. Walker. (After Goeldi.) 

 (Greatly enlarged.) 



scale 4d, PL II. If this is so Mansonia must sink as a synonym 

 of Taeniorhynchus, Arribalzaga (non mihi, Felt, Blanchard, etc). 

 For the present it is left as in the previous volumes. In any 

 case Arribalzaga's genus was made to contain totally distinct 

 insects, such as titillans, Walker, or taeniorhynchus, Wiedemann, 

 and fasciolatus, Arribalzaga. If this is so then the genus 

 Mansonia must be called Coquillettidia of Dyar. 



Mansonia septem PUNCTATA. Theobald (1905). 



Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung. III., p. 187 (1905). 



I lend brown with scattered grey scales and a grey border 

 around the eyes and grey flat scales laterally, with black upright 

 forked scales; proboscis with a broad yellow band, apex with a 

 few pale scales ; palpi brown with white apex. Thorax brown with 

 I night reddish-brown scales and with seven pale puncta, three in 

 front near nape and then two lateral pairs; scutellum pale. 

 Abdomen with apical silvery patches. Legs spotted. 



