X. ANNOTATED CATALOGUE OF ORIENTAL 

 CULICIDAE — SUPPLEMENT. 



By E. Brunetti. 



Almost itnmediatelv after the publication of my " Annotated 

 Catalogue of Oriental Culicidae " ^ I obtained access to a copv of 

 the fourth volume of Mr. Theobald's MonopjraDh on this family, 

 and to Mons. Blanchard's copious work, " Les Moustiques." Sub- 

 sequent to these is a very len2:thy and valuable paper on the 

 Culicidae of the Malay States by Dr. G. F. Leicester (with a preface 

 by Mr. C. W Daniels, Director of the Institute for Medical Re- 

 search) published by that Institution.* Also a Ions; paper by Mr. 

 Theobald (" 2nd Reoort on the Indian M iseum Culicidae ")^ 



I have also receiv^ed a copy from Miss Ludlow of her thes's on 

 the mosquitoes of the Philippines. The very consilerable li<t of 

 additions and corrections of importance relating^ to Or'ental species 

 gleaned even from these five works alone render a supplement to 

 my catalogue imperative, and the information contained in the 

 present paper is mainly derived from these sources with the inclu- 

 .sion of the 5th volume of Theobald's Monograph recently issued. 



The splitting of genera and species s*:ill continues to such 

 extremes as to invoke the severe deprecation of mo'-e than one 

 systematic dipterologist. more e peciiUy in th ^ case of groups 

 higher than genera, of which, none of those recentlv erected in this 

 family approach in zoological value groups of similar rank in the 

 other families of Diptera. 



I have dealt elsewhere* with the queston of taxonomic 

 values in Culicidae, and therefore need not recanitulate here any 

 observations that apply only to nomenclature. In that paper was 

 mentioned that in addition to the vast accessions in generic rank 

 proposed by the new school of culicid st'id?nts, new methods were 

 adopted in presenting to othcs the results of their labours, and 

 though I feel ill fitted to condemn or criticize, it does not seem 

 enti ely out of place to suggest that, in as many particulars as 

 possible the generally accepted rules of zo3logical literature should 

 be adhered to. 



Mr. Theobald's method in his MmgraDh of placing the 

 author's nam^ after the quotation in^.tead of bef)ye it, renlers it 

 rather awkward to follow the data presented in this unusual 



J Rec Ind. Mus , i, 207 — ^77(1007). 



5 Studies from the Institute f )r Medical Research, Federated Malay States, 

 vol. iii. 



i* Rec Ind Mas., iv, i — -13 (igio). 



♦ "Taxonomic values in Culicidae." Rec. Ind. Mus., iv, 53 (iqio). 



