310 E. Brunetti : Catalogue of Oriental Culicida?. [VOL. I, 



Anopheles rossii James and Liston, Anoph. Mosq. Ind. 109 ; pi. 



vi, I, larva figs. ; pi. x, 3, wing scales ; col. 



pi. xii, full ins. 9 . 

 Myzomyia id. Theob. Mon. Culic, iii, 45, fig. 23, wing $ , 



figs. (pp. 46, 47) hairs of larva ; pi. iii, wing ; 



pi. vi, wing scales. 

 Anoph. vagus Donitz, 1902, Beit. z. Kennt. Anoph., p. 80. 



The larva is easily noticed, often being found in great numbers 

 together, and breeds anywhere in pots, puddles, pools, from running 

 clear water to ver}^ foul water, and water containing 2" 8 per cent of 

 salt, but Chatter] ee found that larvae from water containing less 

 than half this amount of salt died on being placed in fresh 

 water. The species occurs up to an altitude of 5,000 feet. In 

 Madras it breeds in rice fields nearly all the year round, and James 

 and Liston say the adults are in the habit of frequenting " railway 

 carriages and almost every kind of road conveyance." The 

 former found it abundant in October at Mian Mir, breeding in 

 muddy, shallow pools and tanks, but not in the irrigation canal. 

 In Perak it has been bred during February from larvae. It is 

 variable and occurs apparently all over India, the Malay Peninsula, 

 South China, the East India Islands and the Philippines. Captain 

 James never found a specimen in a natural state infected with 

 malaria, although he examined nearly 800 from various parts of 

 India, but he proved, that experimentally, Filaria sanguinis-hominis 

 would develop in the species {vide " Lancet" Aug. nth, 1900, p. 

 451). Theobald (Pr. Roy. So. Lond. Ixix, 377) also regards it as a 

 non-malaria carrier. It has been recorded from the Philippines by 

 its place in Banks' Catalogue, but he gives no data, nor have I 

 seen any definite record from these Islands. 



Localities : Sylhet (Jan., Feb., Apr., May, June) [Hall] ; Raj- 

 mahal, Bengal (3i-vii-i907) [Ind. Museum]; Lucknow (Apr.) 

 [Giles^) Mian Mir (Oct., Nov., '' very abundant ") [/awt^s] ; 

 Mozufferpur (Behar) [Green'] ; Dacca [Macrae'] ; Etawah, N.-W. 

 Prov., and Canara District [Aitken] ; Mukerian (Hoshiarpur, 

 India) [Datta] ; Madras (Nov. to March) [Cornwall] ; Quilon 

 (7-iii-i90o) [James] ; Calcutta (April) [Annandale, Daniels] ; 

 Port Canning (17-111-1907, 2i-vii-i907) [Annandale, Dec, 

 " common, " Chatter jee] ; Kuala I^umpur [Durham] ; Ferozepore 

 (late July to mid. Dec.) [Adie] ; Perak [Wray, Wright] ; 

 Penang [Freer] ; Padang (Sumatra) [Donitz] ; Singapore 

 (22-vii-i899) [Hanitsch] ; Jalpaiguri (June 1907) ; Sambalpur 

 (Cent. Prov.) ; Bombay. 



Sub. species indcfinita Ludlow, 1904. 

 Can. Ent., xxxvi, 299 5 . 



Localities : Bayambang in May (Pangasinan, Philippine Islands) 

 [Chamberlain] ; Mangarin (September), Guimaras Islands (De- 

 cember) (both Philippine Islands). 



