508 Records of the Indian Museum. [VoL. XI, 
Culicidae. 
Ridley records the breeding of mosquitoes in pitchers of 
Nepenthes (J. Straits R.A.S., No. 22, Dec. 1890, p. 430). 
MacDougall notices the habits of Corethrella(—=Ramcta) ' inepta 
(Spolia Zeylanica, VIII, p. 71). 
The habits of Toxorhynchites tmmisericors are described by 
Green (Spolia Zeylanica, II, pp. 159-164, 1 pl.; and Rec. Ind. Mus., 
VII, pp. 309-310) and Paiva (Rec. Ind. Mus., V, pp. 187-190). 
Green has seen Culex vishnut sucking a syntomid moth 
(Spolia Zeylanica, IV, p. 180). 
Paiva records the habits of Aediomyia squammipenna (Rec. 
Ind. Mus., V, p. 202). 
Chironomus larva attacking Hydra. 
Tipulidae, 
Conosia irvorata usually sits with the front legs and middle 
femora stretched forwards, the distal parts of the middle legs bent 
outwards at a right angle, the hind legs stretched backwards, and 
the body and wings pointed obliquely upwards. All the legs lie 
flat on the supporting surface. In this position the fly looks more 
like a scrap of rubbish caught in a cobweb, than like a fly. 
Tabanidae. 
Annandale gives an instance of adaptation in the habits of a 
Tabanid (Rec. Ind. Mus., 1X, pp. 245-6). 
1 This synonymy is based on information sent by Mr. F. W. Edwards to 
Dr. Annandale. 
