﻿PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
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  FOUKTH 
  ENTOMOLOGICAL 
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  I 
  may 
  mention 
  that 
  Anofheles 
  gigas 
  occurs 
  also 
  at 
  Pachmarhi 
  in 
  Major 
  Christo- 
  

   Central 
  India. 
  To 
  decide 
  regarding 
  insect 
  distribution 
  generally 
  and 
  P^ers. 
  

   even 
  mosquitos 
  in 
  India 
  would 
  perhaps 
  be 
  premature. 
  But 
  I 
  have 
  

   brought 
  forward 
  facts 
  regarding 
  the 
  distribution 
  of 
  Anophelines 
  because 
  

   these 
  form 
  an 
  unusually 
  suitable 
  group 
  for 
  study 
  and 
  we 
  have 
  a 
  unique 
  

   amount 
  of 
  information 
  regarding 
  them. 
  We 
  have 
  about 
  ten 
  thousand 
  

   specimens 
  at 
  Kasauli 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  main 
  their 
  distribution 
  in 
  India 
  is 
  

   uniquely 
  well 
  known. 
  In 
  general, 
  wind-distribution 
  cannot, 
  I 
  think, 
  

   affect 
  the 
  problem. 
  The 
  facts 
  are 
  sometimes, 
  I 
  think, 
  only 
  to 
  be 
  

   explained 
  as 
  relics 
  of 
  different 
  geological 
  ages. 
  For 
  instance, 
  Toxorhyn- 
  

   cJiites 
  leicesteri 
  is 
  common 
  at 
  Simla 
  at 
  6,000 
  feet 
  and 
  Orthopodomyia 
  

   anopheloides 
  occurs 
  at 
  Simla 
  ; 
  both 
  these 
  are 
  not 
  Palaearctic 
  but 
  Malayan. 
  

  

  I 
  found 
  ToxorhyncMtes 
  leicesteri 
  at 
  Dunga 
  Galli 
  at 
  8,000 
  feet 
  in 
  May. 
  Mr. 
  Fletcher. 
  

  

  I 
  should 
  expect 
  even 
  on 
  the 
  Western 
  Ghats 
  that 
  a 
  Himalayan 
  Anophe- 
  Major 
  Christo- 
  

   line 
  fauna 
  would 
  exist 
  on 
  any 
  localities 
  of 
  say 
  over 
  6,000 
  feet. 
  phers. 
  

  

  I 
  do 
  not 
  agree 
  to 
  the 
  application 
  of 
  the 
  term 
  Himalayan 
  fauna 
  to 
  jjj^ 
  Fletcher, 
  

   such 
  areas, 
  whose 
  fauna 
  is 
  not 
  Himalayan 
  but 
  consists 
  of 
  species 
  common 
  

   to 
  the 
  hills 
  of 
  India 
  at 
  this 
  elevation. 
  I 
  should 
  rather 
  describe 
  it 
  as 
  a 
  

   montane 
  fauna. 
  

  

  In 
  speaking 
  of 
  Himalayan 
  species 
  I 
  purposely 
  excluded 
  forms 
  like 
  Major 
  Christophers. 
  

   Anopheles 
  mac^datus, 
  A. 
  iheobaldi 
  and 
  A. 
  willmori, 
  which 
  occur 
  in 
  the 
  

   Himalayas 
  but 
  are 
  widely 
  diffused 
  low 
  hill 
  species. 
  Even 
  if 
  we 
  admit 
  

   that 
  A. 
  gigas 
  may 
  be 
  blown 
  across 
  from 
  Burma 
  to 
  South 
  Indian 
  hill- 
  

   tops 
  we 
  still 
  are 
  faced 
  with 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  A. 
  lindesayi 
  has 
  never 
  been 
  

   recorded 
  from 
  anywhere 
  on 
  the 
  Malayan 
  side. 
  It 
  is 
  dominant 
  in 
  the 
  

   Himalayas 
  but 
  occurs 
  also 
  in*South 
  India. 
  

  

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