126 Records of flic Jiulian Mnscvm. [Vol. XV, 



a well marked fringe of fine hairs, and a long terminaJ hair which is i- 

 of the tail-fins in length. 



Habits. 



The only adult specimen was hatched from larvae collected by Dr. 

 N. Annandale and Dr. F. H. Gravely from a tree hole at Sureil (altitude 

 about 5,000 ft.) in the Darjeeling district, Eastern Himalayas on 

 October 28th, 1917. The tree was in dense jungle close to the source 

 of the water supply of the Sureil bungalow. The water, which was of a 

 brownish colour, contained a large number of dead leaves, and besides 

 the anopheline larvae there were in it some culicine larvae as vv^ell. Only 

 two other Indian anopheline mosquitoes have been described as breed- 

 ing in tree-holes, these are A. plumbeus, Haliday (5) and A. culicifnnnis. 

 Cogil (()). 



Remarks, 



The present species belongs to the group of anophelines in which 

 Alcock (1) included A. nsiafica, Leicester, A. barbirosiris, Van der Wulp, 

 and A. welUnglonianus, Alcock (2) ; Christophers, however, in his admir- 

 able revision of the anophelines (3) includes in this group A. asisfka, 

 A. lindesayi, Giles, A. wellingtonianus, and doubtfully A. afratipes, 

 Skuse, and thinks that A. barbirosiris has no relations with this group. 

 A. annnndalei though closely related to A. asiatica (6), differs from it 

 in the following important characters among many others : — 



1. Wing markings. 



2. Palpi being banded, 



3. Markings of the legs, 



4. General colouration. 



The larva is quite different from that of A. asiatica as described 

 by Strickland {Parasitology, Vol. VII, pp. 12—17, 1914). 



Type specimen in the collection of the Zoological Survey of India, 

 No. 8061/H. I. Larvae and pupa No. 8062/H., I. 



I would here call attention to a paper by F. W. Edwards of the 

 British Museum on " Tipulidae and Culicidae from the lake of 

 Tiberias and Damascus " published in the Journal of the Asiatic Society 

 of Bengal, new series, Vol. IX, pp. 47 — 51, in which he has, after careful 

 comparison of the types come to the conclusion that Anopheles nursei, 

 Theob. is only a synonym of Anopheles (Pyrefophortis) palestinensis, 

 Theob., and not a valid species. The paper has unfortunately been 

 overlooked by all workers on Indian Culicidae. 



LITERATURE. 



1. Alcook, a. — Remarks on the Classification of Culicidae with parti 



cular reference to the Constitution of the Genus 

 Anopheles. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Series 8, Vol, 

 VIII, 1911. 



2. ,, Description of a new species of Anopheles from the 



Malay Peninsula. Jonrn. London Sc. Trap. Med., 

 Vol. "ll, Part I, December 1912. 



