LIST OF DIPTERA. 



Sub-order I. PROBOSCIDE^. 



Fam. I. TTPULARI^. 



Section I. Culiciformes. 

 Div. I. — Meig. Dipt. i. xxxiii. 



Megarhina, Desvoidy. 



Megarhina ferox. Culex ferox, Wied. Auss. Zweif. i. 1. Macq. 



Hist. Nat. Ins. Dipt. i. 33, 3. 

 a. Georgia. From Mr. Abbot's collection. 



This is not the Culex ferox of Humboldt (Voyage de Hum- 

 boldt et Bonpland, Relation Historique, ii. 340) ; and if the latter 

 species is a Megarhina, Wiedemann's C. ferox must receive a new 

 name. Humboldt describes four other species in the above-men- 

 tioned work, and names them C. cyanopennis, lineatus, chloropterus 

 and maculatus. 



Megarhina haemorrhoidalis, Desvoidy, Essai sur les Culicides, 



Mem. Soc. d'Hist. Nat. de Paris,'i\i. 412. Macq. Dipt. Exot. 



i. 32. Culex haemorrboidalis, Fabr. Ent. Sysl. iv. 401, 5. 



Syst. Anil. 8. Wied. Auss. Zweif. i. 2. Macq. Hist. Nat. 



Ins. Dipt. i. 33, 1. 

 a. Para. Presented by Mrs. J. P. G. Smith. 



Sabethes, Desvoidy. 



Sabethes scintillans, n. s., mas. Nigra, iridescens, argenteo micans, 

 antennis subalbis, pedibus pilosis, alis subfuscis. 



Body black, hairy, with iridescent and silvery reflections : 

 feelers about half the length of the body, dull white, adorned with 

 whorls of long dark reddish-brown hairs, and clothed towards their 

 tips with sHort down : palpi nearly as long as the body, brown ; the 



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