[The mosquito name of Anopheles ramsayi in China should be corrected to Anopheles pseudojamesi Strickland and Chowdhury, 1927 (Diptera : Culicidae)].

The present review deals with the nominate priority of mosquito names between An. ramsayi Covell, 1927 (published in Ind J Med Res, April 1927 number) and An. pseudojamesi Strickland and Chowdhury, 1927 (published in Ind Med Gaz, May 1927 number) and its synonymy reported in India. They adopted the priority by order of monthly number of the periodicals without exact dates. The name ranisayi for the priority used as the valid name long time in literature, and forms a wrong nominate case. The editor of Ind. Med. Gaz.(1936) entered an interesting footnote regarding the exact dates of publication for two names: ramsayi issued in May 15th 1927, while pseudojamesi was May 10th 1927. The fact showed that the name pseudojamesi has its priority. Nurul Huda and Harrison (1985) informed clearly for wrong nominate case, and clarified that the name pseudojamesi has priority over ramsayi. Therefore An. pseudojamesi is elevated to species rank (corrected to valid name), whereas An. ramsayi is regarded as its junior synonym (invalid name). That the rejected name of An. ramsayi now still being used in Chinese lliterature should he corrected to An. pseudojamesi quickly.