iQoy-l Records of the hidiaii Mjiscidii. 325 



Toxorhynchites id. Theob. Mon. Culic, iii, 123, fig. 67, larva, 



pupa. 

 Megarhinus " id. or amboinensis Dol." Os. Sack. Berl. 

 Ent. Zeit., xxvi, 96. 

 Id. or Giles, Handbk. id., 2nd Ed., 273. 



Id. gilcsii Theob. Mon. Culic, i, 227 & $ . 

 Id. subulifer Doles. 1857 Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind., xiv, 382 ; 



pi. Vj 2 (Culex). 

 Id. id. Giles, Handbk., 2nd Ed., 272. 



Culex regiits Thwaites (1864) Pr. Linn. So. Lond., viii, 102. 



This very large and handsome mosquito occurs apparently all 

 over the Oriental region, in parts of India being known as the 

 "stinging elephant mosquito," Mr. Ernest Green of Ceylon has 

 bred it from larvse living in the collected water in stems of the 

 giant bamboo. The larvae prey solely on the larvae of other Culi- 

 cidcB. 



The adult shows some variation, and it appears fairly common 

 in Calcutta in particular spots in gardens and on walls and tree 

 trunks during July and August, and both sexes have been taken 

 there frequently by Dr. Annandale. I captured a specimen in a 

 wine shop in Calcutta, July 1904, the only one I have seen alive. 



LoCAi.iTiRs : Calcutta, July, August [Annandale and others] ; Upper 

 Burma [Watson] ; Sikhim, 1,800 feet, June [Dudgeon] ; Bhim 

 Tal, Sept. 1906 [Annandale] ; Sylhet, May, June [Hall] ; 

 Celebes, Mysol, North Ceram and Waigion [t. Walker] ; 

 Settleberg (Huon golf) (Papua) [Biro] ; Ceylon [Hope Coll. 

 Oxford] : also recorded from Trincomalee Hot Wells, Macassar 

 and Travancore. 



2. T. inornatus Wlk., 1865. 



Pr. lyinn. So. Lond., viii, 102 o* (Megarhinus). 



Theob. Mon. Culic, i, 223 o' $ ; pi. vii, 26 cf 25 ? (both 



full insects coloured, as Megarhinus id.). 

 Megarhinus inornatus Giles, Handbk., 2nd Ed., 2yi& 9 . 



Theobald's description is from two specimens in the British 

 Museum of which I presume one is Walker's type {dr). 



3. T. leicesteri Theob., 1804. 

 - Entom., xxxvii, 360' 5 . 



Types in British Museum. Taken by Dr. Durham at Kuala Lumpur. 



4. T. metallica Leicester in Theob., 1904. 



Entom., xxxvii, 37 cf 9 . 



Types in British Museum. Taken by Dr. Leicester at Kuala Lumpur, 



