1912.] E. Brunetti : Catalogue of Oriental Culicidae. 469 



Soudan, Egypt, British Central Africa. vSenegambia, ^lauritius, 

 Seychelles, Australia, Fiji, and the southern part of North America. 



N .B. — Both Theobald and Blanchard consider the species iden- 

 tical with pungens, W., and this latter name being given first by 

 Wiedemann, although on the same page, should perhaps be 

 adopted. In the absence of absolute certainty of identification and 

 on account of the confusion that would be caused by the change, 

 neither author adopts pungens. It is doubtful if the type of 

 pungens still exists in any state sufficiently good to decide so close 

 a point of identity. 



^Moreover, my own personal opinion, not as a culicidologist 

 but as being fairly intimate with the magnificent work done b}'- 

 Wiedemann, is that that author must have had two distinct 

 species before him, for he certainly would not have regarded such 

 minute dift'erences as specific, as are to-day delighted in bv the 

 workers in Culicidae. 



In a paper just published by Air. F. \V. Edwards ' fatigans, 

 W., is sunk (with some species of Theobald's) as a synonym of 

 pipiens, L- If the two are identical it is very strange no previous 

 author has ascertained it. 



The species carries Filariasis. 



Miss Ludlow's tables show that it is common in all parts of 

 the Philippines all the year round. 



IvCicester says it occurs in houses all over the Malay Peninsula, 

 the larva breeding in am^ small collection of water near houses. 



C, fatigans, var. trilineatus, Theob. 

 Admitted as a good species. 



C, foochow^ensis, Theob. 



Add. Ref. — Blanch. ^ Moust., 344, & 9 {fouchowensis). 

 Type in British Museum. 



C. fragilis, Ludlow. 



Add. Ref. — Theob., Monog. Culic, iv, 424, & 9 . 



Add. Logs.— Oras (Samar, Phil. Is.}, Aug. 6th |7. Ludloiv]. 



N.B. — Type in Army Medical Museum, Washington. 



C. fuscanus, Wied. 

 Add. Ref. —Blanch., Moust., 275. 



C. fuscocephalus, Theob., 1907. 



Monog. Culic, iv, 420, 9 . 



Log. — Peradeniya, March and September [Grecn^ ; ILikgala, 

 Ceylon, 5-xi-o7 {Green) ; Pallodc, r5-xi-o8 [Annandalc]. 



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