Genus Theobaldia. 
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Theobaldia spathipalpis. Rondani (1872). 
Culex spathipalpis. Rondani (1872). 
Theobaldinella spathipalpis. Rondani (1872).® 
Culex longiareolatus. Maequart (1838) (?). 
Bull. d. Soo. Ent. ItaL IY., 31, 12 (1872), Rondani; Dipt. Ital. Prodro. I.-, 
(1886); Mono. Oulicid. L, 339 (1901), Theobald; ibid. III., 154 (1908); 
ibid. IY., 276 (1907), Theobald; Eirst Rep. Welle. Res. Labs. 73 
(1904), Theobald; Second Rep. ibid., 71 (1906), Theobald; Third 
Rep. ibid., 255 (1908), Theobald; Entomo. 107 (1908), Theobald ; Dipt. 
Exot. I., 34 (1838), Maequart (?). 
Italy; Gibraltar ; Crete; Cyprus ; Algeria ; Teneriffe ; Ma¬ 
deira and St: Michael; Cairo ; Khartoum. 
Additional localities, .Transvaal (Simpson) ; Malaga, Spain, 
2 A , 1 ? (Univ. Edinburgh); Lausanne, Switzerland (Yalleries); 
Erkowit, Sudan (King) • Rosebank, Cape Colony, 7 and 13. x. 05 
(O. Lounsbury). 
Observations. —O wing to this species being very common in 
Madeira I feel almost certain Maequarfis species,, longiareolatus , 
is the same. If so Rondanf s name will sink as a synonym. 
■ The Cape specimens were bred from larvae found in a 
macerating tub. 
Theobaldia alaskaehsis. Ludlow (1906). 
Canad. Entom. XXXYIIL, 326 (1906), Ludlow. 
“ Head dark brown j covered with white curved scales, and 
dark brown forked scales on the occiput, with flat white scales 
on the sides, and extending down under the labium ; a few brown 
bristles around and between the eyes; antennae dark brown, 
heavy white pubescence and sparse brown verticels, first and 
second joints with some white flat scales, basal joint testaceous, 
with a few white flat scales on the median side • palpi dark 
brown, sparsely covered with white flat scales and a few hairs ; 
proboscis yellowish from base about two-thirds of its length, the 
apical third dark brown, the whole sparsely covered with thin 
white flat scales ; the effect -of the proboscis under the hand-lens 
is not, however, of a band, the proximal part being merely 
* The generic name was altered by Blanchard to Theobaldinella, but 
Neveu-Lemaire’s name, Theobaldia , is correct. 
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