1912.] E. Brunetti : Catalogue of Oriental Culicidae. 449 



Add. lyOC. — Sylhet, April [Hall] ; Lushai Hills, May to July 

 [Macleod] ; Manipur, July [Gourlay] ; Calcutta, ]\Iarch, July to 

 October, common during the hot weather in the rains, disappear 

 ing in winter, active by day ; Katihar, N. Bengal, October 

 [Paiva]; Purnea, viii, ix [Paival; near Puri, x-o8 ; Lucknow, 

 4-iv-05 [Brunetti] ; Sukna, i — 2-vii-o8 ; Mandalay, ii, iii-o8 ; Bhim 

 Tal, breeds in hollow trees in jungle, ix-06; Trivandrum, i4-xi-o8 ; 

 Maddathorai, 18-X-08 [all Annandale]; Madras Town, 30-X-08 

 [Hodgart] ; Shahjahanpur [Giles] ; Victoria gardens, Colombo, 

 26-iv-o8 [Paiva] ; Singapore, 2i-vi-o6 [BriDieiti]. 



Sarawak, Papua generally. Upper Burma, Foochow, Hankow, 

 21 — 28-vi, Seychelles, Mauritius, Pitcairn Is., Honolulu. 



All the above specimens identified b}' Theobald are in the 

 Indian Museum, 



I have taken it in Calcutta as late in the year as io-xi-04. 



Type in the British ^Museum. 



N.B. — The species breeds freely in the flowers of Heliconia 

 brasiliensis. Dr. Barker says that at Sarawak it is abundant in 

 the neighbouring thick undergrowth, but that it seldom enters 

 houses in the daytime, and not at all at night. Common in Cal- 

 cutta in hot weather and rains, disappears in winter. Is the most 

 abundant species in ^Mauritius. 



Dr. Leicester notes in his description of the species, one or 

 two points not mentioned by Theobald, adding that the insect 

 breeds as freely in bath tubs as in the jungle. 



Sub-species samarcnsis, Ludlow. 



Theobold retains this (Monog., iv and v) as a variety of 

 scutellaris, Wlk., and disputes Banks's suggestion that possibly 

 intergradations may occur between scutellaris and fasciata. 



Type in Army Medical Museum, Washington. 



" S. albopictus," vSkuse. 

 Definitely accepted as synonymous with scutellaris. 



S. sexlineata, Theob. 



Further corroboration of the identity of the Philippine Island 

 specimens received from Banks, with this species, described from 

 Trinidad. 



TyPc in British Museum. 



S. striocrura, Giles, 1904. 



No sex is mentioned, the type is not in the British Museum, 

 and Theobald is doul)tful of its specific validity. 



