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Filaria bancrofti, Cobbold (human), Bancroft, 1903a. 
CULEX CILIARIS, Skuse, nec Linn=C. fatigans. 
Filaria bancrofti, Cobb., Bancroft, 1898, 1899a, 1899b. 
CULICELSA ANNULIROSTRIS, Skuse. 
Filaria bancrofti, Cobbo!d, Bancroft, 1899a. 
SCUTOMYIA NOTOSCRIPTA, Skuse. 
Filaria bancrofti, Cobb., Bancroft, 1899a. Brien 
(1908) believes this mosquito to be the carrier of 
dengue in North Queensland. 
‘CULICELSA VIGILAX, Skuse--the black bush moseuito. 
Filaria bancrofti, Cobp., Bancroft, 1898. 
As far as I am aware, no work other than that of Dr. 
T. L. Bancroft has been published regarding the trans- 
mission of parasites by mosquitoes in Australia. Human 
malaria is transmitted by Anophelines; Casteilani and 
‘Chalmers (Man. Trop. Med., p. 854), mention, however, 
but on what authority I do not know, that Nyssorhynchus 
(= Anopheles) annulipes, Walker, is known to be a carrier 
in Australia. This mosquito which occurs in Australia* 
has been proved by fKinoshitat to he a transmitter in 
Formosa. 
*T. L. Bancroft. List of the mosquitoes of Queensland. Ann. 
Queensland Museum, No. 8, 1908; J. B. Cleland. List of the mosquitoes 
recorded in Australia. Rep. Bur. Microbiol. N.S.W. (1910-11), 2, 1912, 
pp. 143-5., and in Trans. Intercol. Med. Congr. Austr. 9 (1), 1911 (1913), 
pp. 553-5; F. ‘Taylor. Descriptions of mosquitoes collected in the 
Northern Territory during the expeditions of 1911. Bull. North Teiritory, 
No. la, 1912, pp. 25-34; A. Breinl, 1912, p. 18,23; L. Cooling, Report 
on mosquito work in Brisbane, in Rep. Commiss. Public Health, Queens- 
land, 1914, pp. 56-64; KE. Ferguson. Notes on mosquitoes, Ann. Rep. 
Govt. Bur. Microbiology, N.S.W., 4, 1915, p. 238. 
A. Breinl and M. J. Holmes in their * Medical Report on the data 
ollected during a journey through some districts of the Northern 
Territory ’ (Bull. North. Terr., No. 15, Dec., 1915) state that “‘ the mos- 
quito which in all probability carries the malarial parasite in N.T. is 
Nyssorhynchus annulipes. . .” (p. 5.). 
Since writing the above I have come across a reference by Breinl 
(1915) who in writing of this mosquito calls it the carrier of malaria. 
This statement is not based on experiment, but only on general grounds. 
As far as I am aware no species of mosquito has yet been proved to be a 
carrier of any form of malaria parasite, Plasmodium, Proteosoma, Hemo- 
proteus, ete., in Australia. 
Kinoshita. Arch. F. Schiffs, u. Tropenhyg, 10, p. 708. This 
reference, as well as some that follow, have been kindly supplied by Mr. 
F. H. Taylor, of the Tropical Institute, Townsville. 
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