Genus Desvoidya . 
P. I. (E. R,. Whitmore) (in Banks); Samarang, Java, 1 $, 
viii. 05 (Jacobson) in Amsterdam Museum. 
Note, E-The co-type of this species in the Indian Museum,, 
Calcutta p|p) is nothing hut an immature large Gulex fatigans , 
'W’iod.j with distinct abdominal banding. 
Desvoidya joloensis. Ludlow (1904). 
B.fusca var. joloensis. Ludlow (1904). 
Canal. Ent. XXX7L, 236 '(1904), Ludlow; Mono. Culicid. IV., 165 (1907), 
Theobald; Journ. Phil. ScL I., 9, 983, (1906), Banks; Mosq. Philip. 
Isis., 10 (1908), Ludlow' (Desvoidea fusca var. joloensis). 
Philippine Islands. 
Desvoidya apicalis. Theobald (1910). 
Eec. Xnd. Mus. IV., 5 (1910). 
Head dark brown paler around the eyes ; palpi and proboscis 
black. Thorax bronzy-brown, with a pale line around the front 
and sides; pleurae brown with silvery-white scaled areas. 
Abdomen black with prominent apical yellow bands and snowy- 
white lateral spots. Legs black, unbanded, base of femora and 
venter white. 
$ . Head clothed with flat violet-black scales, some white 
ones forming a central line, and small creamy-curved ones 
forming a border around the eyes ; a tuft of pale golden chaetae 
projecting between the eyes, dark ones at the sides; clypeus 
black with small creamy spindle-shaped scales; palpi and 
proboscis deep violet black ; antennae black, the basal segment 
testaceous and black with small creamy scales, base of the second 
segment bright ferruginous. 
Thorax black, with narrow-curved almost hair-like bronzy 
scales, broader and pale ones forming a border around the front 
and sides of the mesothorax, the scales longer, broader and larger 
before the scutellum ; a dense - tuft of brown chaetae over the 
roots of the wings ; scutellum clothed with flat violet scales, 
border-bristles rich brown; metanotum brown ; pleurae brown 
with patches of flat white scales. 
Abdomen black, with violet reflections, all the segments but 
the first and last two with broad yellow apical bands, narrowed 
at the sides, and not passing quite to the edges ; posterior border- 
