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A LIST OF PHILIPPINE CULICIDAZ. WITH DESCRIPTIONS 
OP SOME NEW SPECIES. 
By CHARLES 8. BANKS. 
(From the entomological section, Biological Laboratory, Bureau of Science.) 
The mosquito problem in its relation to human pathology has assumed 
such gigantic proportions in all parts of the world during the past decade, 
and species and genera have-been found in such large numbers, especially 
throughout tropical regions, that little wonder attaches to the discovery 
of a very great number of species within a comparatively brief period in 
the Philippines. Osten-Sacken, in his “Diptera from the Philippine 
Islands, brought home by Dr. Carl Semper,’! gives: 
Culex, several species, damaged. 
Megarhina, one male; determined by Walker as M. immisericors Wk., although 
abdomen and legs do not agree with his description. It may be amboinensis Dol., 
although the agreement is not perfect. 
Padre Casto Elera* gives in addition Culex pipiens Linn., as occurring 
in all parts of the Archipelago and Corethra manilliensis Schiner,’ so that 
up to the year 1895 the knowledge of just what species of Culicide occur 
in the Islands was, to say the least, very indefinite. 
The work of the surgeons of the United States Army in various parts 
of this region brought under their observation many forms with which 
they were not familiar, and naturally they were led to send them to 
persons whose knowledge of the group would enable them to identify the 
species found and give the physicians working here some idea as to the 
possible prevalence of pathophoric forms. Among those who have done 
most in the matter of identification of material are Professor F. V. 
Theobald, Lieutenant-Colonel George M. Giles, I. M. 8S. (retired), and 
Miss Clara 8. Ludlow, the latter of the laboratory of the Surgeon-Gen- 
eral’s Office, United States Army, at Washington. They have also de- 
scribed many new species from the Philippines, and it is therefore but 
natural that in compiling a list of this kind I should have been very 
dependent upon their publications. 
1 Berl. Ent. Ztschr. (1882), 26, 96. 
2 Catalogo de toda la Fauna Filipina (1895), 2, 490, 491. 
5 Reise der Novara, Diptera (1868), 30. 
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