1. SECOND REPORT ON THE COLLECTION 

 OF CULICID.E IN THE INDIAN MUSEUM, 

 CALCUTTA, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF 

 NEW GENERA AND SPECIES. 



By Fred. V. Theobald, M.A , etc. 



NOTE. 



The following report and descriptions of new species of 

 Culicidae is based on further collections belonging to the Indian 

 ^Museum, Calcutta, sent me in 1938.' The types will be found 

 in that Museum, but some co-types, where possible, have been 

 retained for the British Museum of Natural History. Twentj' 

 new species are described and four new genera, also one new 

 variety of an Anopheline. 



The series of banded-proboscis Ciclex provisional! 3^ placed as 

 Culex impellens, Walker, must be specially worked out, as I find 

 such wide variation that it is impossible to separate them and it is 

 likely that several of the more recently described banded-proboscis 

 species will have to sink as subspecies under one of the older names. 

 This cann >t be settled off-hand, males and females must be bred 

 and the genitalia of the former and the larvcC examined before anj^ 

 further advance can be made in this group of Culex. 



SPECIES IN THE COLLECTION. 



Family CULICID.E. 



I. Anopheles lindesayi, Giles, var. uiaculata, vav. nov. 



A very distinct variety of this marked species. The wings 

 have a dense black spot of scales at the base of the long vein, a 

 dense black spot of scales at the cross-veins, another at the base of 

 the first fork-cell, a smaller one at the base of the second fork-cell 

 and the outer edge of the costa, the first long vein and the base 

 of the branches of the first fork-cell all very dark. There are no 

 pale spots on the wing fringe. 



Habitat Kurseong, 5,000 feet, Darjiling district, E. Himalayas 

 {Annandale). 



Time of capture 5-vii-o8. 



1 The first report was published in the Records of the Indian Museum, vol. 

 v, part iii, Oct. 190S. pp. 2S7 — 302. The species figured in the plates accompany- 

 ing this report were described in the former report — Eo., Rec. Ind. Mus. 



