126 Records ol the Indian Museum. [Vol. XVII, 



C. bancroflii, vSkuse, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales III, 1740 ( 1886). 



C. clcgans, Ficalbi, Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital., 251 (1896). 



C. rossii, Giles, Jour. Trop. Med. 64 (1899). 



C. luciensis, Tlieob., Monog. Culic. I, 297, c? 9 ; pi. xiii, 50 (only 



the separate figure of a leg), (1901). 

 C. queenslandensis, id., loc. ciL, I, 297, 9 (1901). 

 Subspecies persistans Banks, Phil. Jour. Sci. I, 996 (1906), 



Brun. Rec. Ind. Mus. I, 331. 



The references to this species as Stegomyia fasciata are so 

 numerous and so well known that it is unnecessary to list 

 them all here.' The absolute identity of fasciata with calopus, 

 Mg , is not proved, and as the description of Villiers' Culex 

 fasciatus is quite unintelligible and the tj'pe non-existent no 

 possible gain is obtained by endeavouring to alter this mos- 

 quito's well-known name. The Kertesz Catalogue does not 

 mention Villiers' species, which, moreover, may not even have 

 been a Culex at all. Messrs. Howard, Dyar and Knab in their 

 monumental work on the North American Mosquitoes actually 

 seriously ]:)ropose to change the name to argenteus, Poiret, 

 Jour, de Physique xxx, 245 (1787). S. fasciata is the sole 

 carrier of yellow fever. 



variegata Dol., Nat. Tiid. Ned. Ind. XVII, 77 (Culex), (1858). 

 Stcgomyia varicgata, Edw., Bull. Ent. Res. VII, 209. 

 Culex scutellaris. Walk., Proc. Linn. Soc. Loud. Ill, yj (1859). 

 Culex zonalipes. Walk., Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. V, 229 (i86r). 



Giles, Handbk., etc., 287. 

 Stegomyia pseudoscutellaris , Theob., Entom. XLIII, 156 (1910). 



Amboina, Aru, Papua, New Caledonia, Christmas Is., the 

 Solomon Is., Samarai Is. and the Fiji Is. 



In Edwards' latest opinion the true Culex scutellaris of Walker 

 is not the common oriental species generally known as such, but 

 is identical with the zonalipes of Walker, and the pseudoscutel- 

 laris of Theob. It has not, however, been possible for him to 

 examine Doleschall's tj'pe of C. variegatus , and the identity must 

 be received with some caution. I have already accepted his 

 previous synonymy of the generally accepted " scutellaris, Walk." 

 with albopicta, Skuse. Type of variegata, location unknown ; 



of scutellaris, Walk., zonalipes, Walk., and pseudoscutellaris, 

 Theob., in British Museum. 



albopicta Skuse, Ind. Mus. Notes III, 20 [Culex), (1895). 

 Culex albopiclus, Giles, Handbk., etc., 228. 

 Stegomyia albopicta, Edw., Bull. Ent. Res. VII, 209. 

 Stegomyia albopicta, Theob., Monog. Culic. I, 298 : Brun., Rec. 



Ind. Mus. I, 334. 

 nee Stegomyia scutellaris. Walk., vera. 



Stegomyia scutellaris, Theob. nee Walk., Monog. Culic 1,298, 

 cf 9 , fig. 91, d' claws; pi. xiv, 53, 9 (full ins. col.), (1901). 



' How.ird, Dvar .ind Knab {five nearly 150 references. 



