442 Records of the Indian Museum. | Voi.. IV, 



elsewhere. I have received specimens from Borneo " (Leicester). 

 Near obturbans, Wlk. 



B. obturbans, Wlk. 



Errakun. — The reference to Walker's Culex ventralis (s^niony- 

 mous with obturbans) should be Jour. Linn. vSoc, iv, 91 (i860). 



Add. Ref. — Blanch., Moust., 266, & 9 . 



Leices., Culic. Malaya. 75,0" $ (with notes on 

 varietal forms), 



Locs.— Naini Tal [Cues'] ; Sylhet [HaU] ; Lushai Hills, Assam ; 

 Madras [Corwwa//] ; Travancore [James']; Behar, Bengal [G^gg«] ; 

 Mozufferpur, India ; Selangor, 28-X-99 [Builer] : Singapore, 25- 

 viii-99 ; Perak [PTmy] ; Madulsima, Ce^don, 26-ix-07 [Green] ; Sema- 

 rang, Java, i, ii, iii, 1904 and viii-05 [Jacobson^; Waria Riv., 

 Brit., Papua [Dr. Fleming Jones]: Amboina ; Celebes; Mysol ; 

 Waigiou ; North Ceram ; Tinghai, Formosa ; West lake, Hankow, 

 China, 28-viii-07 [Cornford] ; Foochow [Rennie]. 



Theobald (Rec. Ind. Mus., iv, 4) gives the following data for 

 this species and " varieties " from specimens in the Indian ]\Iuseum. 



Sukna, i-viii-o8, in deep jungle, Kurseong, 5-vii-o8 [both 

 Annandale] ; Calcutta, i, iii, vii, x, xii, Rajmahal, Bengal. 3i-vii-07 

 [Hodgart]; Trivandrum, r4-xi-o8 [Annandale]. 



Taken b}^ me in Calcutta, 11 — 25-iii-o8 ; i2-iv-o8 ; 8-viii-07 ; 

 all in bedrooms ; ]\Ieerut, 25-iv-05 ; Batavia, 27-vi-o6 to 9-vii-o6. 



Type in the British Museum. 



N.B. — Mr. Theobald mentions this species being bred in a 

 tumbler of water in the Indian Museum by Mr. Tipper of the 

 Geological Survey of India. Miss Ludlow has recorded it from 

 the Philippines. It breeds freely in the flowers of Heliconia brasi- 

 liensis. " Bred from large larvae from under overhanging rock, 

 in a deep pool of a clear running stream," 



B. panalectros, Giles. 



(Armigeres panalectoros. Giles, in Theob., ^Nlonog., ii, 317.) 



Add. Ref. — Blanch., Moust., 266, r^ [panalectros). 



Add. Loc. — Semarans:, Java, viii-05. 



N.B.— Theobald (Rec. Ind. Mus.. iv, 5) notes that the co- 

 type " is nothing but an immature, large Culex fatigans, Wied., 

 with distinct abdominal banding." 



BREVIRHYNCHUS, Theob., 1908. 

 Rec. Ind. Mus., ii. 293. Monog. Culic, v. 144. 



B. annulipalpis, Theob.. 1910. 



Rec. Ind. Mus., iv. 6. 9 . Monog. Culic, v, 148. 



Add. Loc. — Maddathorai, i6-xi-o8 [Annandale]. 

 Described from a single perfect 9 in the Indian Museum. 

 Theobald erroneously quotes 1903 as date of capture. 



