Genus Howardina. 
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Howardina greenii. Theobald (1903). 
Mono. Cnlicid. III., 289 (1903). 
Peradeniya, Ceylon. 
Type in the British Museum. 
Howardina chrysolineata. Theobald (1907). 
Mono. Culicid. IV., 218 (1907). 
Pundabroya, Ceylon. 
Type in the British Museum. 
Howardina (?) himalayana. Giles (1904). 
Journ. Trop. Med. 384, Dec. 15, 1904. 
“Wings dark scaled, unspotted, with rather short fork-cells. 
Tarsi uniformly sooty. Thorax sooty-ground, densely clothed 
with golden long-curved scales, which do not appear disposed so 
as to form any definite adornment. Abdomen sooty, with 
brilliant snowy basal bands which expand laterally to form 
distinct outstanding tufts. 
9 . Head sooty, grounded with a nude median line, flanked 
on either side with obliquely-directed falciform and erect forked 
scales (as if hair had been parted), but with no forked scales in 
the fore part of median band. Outside these are similarly scaled 
black patches, and outside these again alternate patches of white 
and black flat scales. Palpi black, much tufted rather longer 
than the proboscis. Scutellum black with three patches of white 
falciform scales grouped round the bases of dense tufts of long 
yellow hairs. Pleurae with some white patches. Legs a warm, 
deep brown, with minute yellow knee spots, and the bases of the 
femora pale brown throughout. Venter yellow. A medium¬ 
sized mosquito. 
Habitat .—Naim Thai, in the Himalayas. Bred in August, 
from a clear pool beneath a waterfall. This species presents 
much resemblance to Mr. Theobald’s genus Howardina, but has 
perhaps too large a proportion of erect forked scales on the head. 
In H. greenii , however, forked scales are present on the nape, 
and assuming the genus to be retained, it would be difficult to 
exclude the present form.” * 
* Mr. T. Garter has examined the type and writes: “ Appears to 
belong to the Pseudohowardina , sine0 there is no trace of flat scales on 
the scutellum.” 
