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Genus Heptaphlebomyia. 
stalk, and flew off* when disturbed with a curious singing hum 
similar to that produced by Toxorhynchites speciosus. 
Type in the British Museum. 
Genus RACHIONOTOMYIA. Theobald (1904). 
Journ. Bomb. Nat. Soc. XVI., 248 (1904); Mono. Culicid. IV., 518 (1907). 
A single species only described. 
Rachionotomyia ceylonensis. Theobald (1904). 
Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. XVI., 248 (1904); Mono. Culicid. IV., 
518 (1907). 
Peradeniya, Ceylon. 
Type in the British Museum. 
Sub-Family HEPTAPHLEBOMYINAE. 
Theobald. 
Mono. Culicid. IV., 531 (1907). 
(A marked 7th scaled vein to wings.) 
Genus HEPTAPHLEBOMYIA. Theobald (1903). 
Mono. Culicid. IV., 531 (1907). 
Three species have so far been described in this genus, and I 
have another waiting description. 
The three species tabulate as below :— 
A. Thorax unadorned. 
a. Legs unbanded ; abdomen with basal 
bands and lateral spots. 
Thorax deep brown, with small 
reddish - brown narrow - curved 
scales; brown pleurae, with 
snow-white puncta. simplex . Theobald. 
Thorax greyish-black, with yellow 
curved scales . montforti. Ventrillon. 
AA. Thorax black, with white spots. argenteopunctata. Ven¬ 
trillon. 
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YOL. V. 
