350 E. Brunetti : Catalogue of Oriental Culicida:^. [VOL. I. 



Localities : Punjab in March, 6,000 ft. \Lindcsay\ ; Canara District 

 [Aitken] ; Theog (Simla Hills, 8.000 ft., 2-V-IQ07) [Annandale] ; 

 Kuala Lumpur [Dtirhaiu] ; Perak [Wright]. 



28. C. nigripes Zett., 1838-1840. 



Ins., Lapponica, 807. 



Culex nigripes Ficalbi (1896), Bull. vSo. Ent. Ital., 292. 

 Id. id. Theob. Men. Culic, ii, 93 cr* $ ; fig. 194, 

 wing, ungues ; ii, fig. 260 (p. 219) map of 

 distribution. 



An arctic species spreading out around the North Pole to about 

 35° latitude, occurring in Lapland, Greenland, Alaska, Hudson's 

 Ba}^ and many parts of North America, possibly also, California ; 

 its bite being said to be almost poisonous. 



Note i. — Culex impiger Wlk., List Dipt. Br. Mus. i, 6, is regarded 

 by Theobald (Gen. Ins., p. 27) as synon^-mous with nigripes Zett., 

 but Giles considers that it is but pipiens ly. For wing scales see 

 Theob. Monog. ; pi. D {impiger Wlk.). 



Note 2. — Culex implacabilis Wlk., List Dipt. Br. Mus., i, 7, is 

 given as a synon^^m of nigripes in the Gen. Ins. (p. 27). 



Dr. Neve took nigripes Zett. (2i-viii-i899) on the Deosai 

 Plateau between Kashmir and Shardo at an altitude of over 13,000 

 feet. 



Note 3. — Culex incidens Thoms. (Eugenie Reise 443) was 

 queried by Theobald in the ist volume of his monograph as nigripes 

 Zett., but in the 3rd volume (p. 193) he definitely decides that 

 they are both distinct. This latter is not oriental. 



29. C. pallidithorax Theob., 1905 



Jour. econ. biol., i, 32. 

 India. 



(?) 30. C. pipiens Linn., 1758. 



Sys. Nat. Ed., x, 602. 



Sch. F. Austr., ii, 628. 

 (For synonyms vide Theob. Gen. Ins. Fasc. 26.) 



I do not add all the European references and s^-nonj'ms to this 

 common and tj^pical species of the famih', as it appears to me not to 

 occur in the Orient at all. 



Patton records it breeding in springs, wells and rainwater pools 

 round D'thala and Jehag (Arabia), at an altitude of 7,000 feet, but 

 the only claim it has to being an oriental species is the Padre Casto 

 Elera's " Cat. de toda la faunna Filip." (1895), ii, 490, which in- 

 cludes it as part of the Philippine fauna ; as, however, no one else 

 has verified the species as from this region, I include it in my cata- 

 logue with a quer}'. 



Note. — Prof. Kertesz's Catalogue has Culex doniesticus Germar 

 (1817, Reise nacli Dalmatien, 290) as a good species from South 



