Genus Runehomyia 
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Genus RUNCHOMYIA. Theobald (1903). 
Binotia. Blanchard (1904). 
Mono. Cnlicid. III., 319 (1903), Theobald; Les Moust., 427 (1905); 
Archives de Parasitologie VIII., 478 (1904), Blanchard. 
Blanchard renamed this genus on account of Robineau- 
Desvoidy’s genus, Bhynchomyia (1830). The names are not the 
same, so the above generic name stands. 
Two species occur in this genus as follows :— 
Proboscis as long as the body. 
Mesonotum very dark, almost black; 
abdomen and legs unbanded . frontosa. Theobald. 
Mesonotum with a central longitudinal 
yellow line; abdomen dark chestnut- 
brown ..... lineata. Lutz. 
Runchomyia frontosa. Theobald (1903). 
Binotia frontosa. Theobald—Blanchard. 
Mono. Culicid. III., 319 (1903). 
British Guiana. 
Type in the British Museum. 
Runchomyia lineata. Lutz (in Peryassu) (1908). 
Os Culicideos do Brazil, 266 (1908). 
Mesonotum with a central longitudinal yellow line. Abdomen 
chestnut-brown. 
Brazil. 
Runchomyia (?) philippinensis. Giles (1904). 
Journal of Tropical Medicine VII., 368 (Dec. 1st 1904), Giles; Philip. 
Journ. Sci. I., 9, 991 (1906), Banks. 
“ Wing unspotted. Tarsi uniformly deep brown. Thorax dark 
brown, much denuded, but evidently with patches of large flat scales 
as in Uranotaenia. Abdomen dark brown, with a row of pale scales, 
very distinct laterally on the hinder border of the segments. Venter 
with very brilliant pale triangular patches. Frontal protuberance 
very large. 
$ . Head dark, with three patches of flat pale violet scales on the 
occiput, and a large patch of dark erect forked scales behind. Frontal 
protuberance nude, pale ochraceous, melon-shaped, with a distinct 
