Anopheles culicifacies. 



brief history of its discovery. It was first found by Captain Liston 

 who sent it with specimens of culicifacies to Colonel Giles, at the same 

 time pointing out the differences between the two species. Colonel 

 Giles proposed to name it listoni, and it was therefore described 

 under this title by Captain Liston (Ind. Med. Gaz., Dec., 1901). In 

 the meantime the labels on Colonel Giles' specimens were apparently 

 lost, and when his description appeared it was evident that under 

 the title listoni, he had only redescribed a specimen of culicifacies. 

 Thus listoni (Giles) is merely a variety of culicifacies (see 

 Rev. Anoph., p. 30). In 1902 the same mosquito was found 

 in the Duars by the Royal Society's Malaria Commissioners. 

 At first they considered that it was identical with the African 

 species funestus (Giles), but as this view was not shared by 

 Mr. Theobald, the mosquito was described by Captain James 

 under the title fluviatilis (" Malaria in India," p. 31). The 

 specimens sent to Mr. Theobald were described by him about the 

 same time under the title Christopher si. Subsequently we were able 

 to point out to Mr. Theobald that the species was identical with 

 that originally described by Captain Liston under the title listoni, 

 and the latter name must therefore be regarded as correct. Our 

 illustrations were prepared before the correct nomenclature of this 

 species had been worked out, and in the coloured plate it appears 

 under the title fluvintilis. We have already pointed out, however, 

 that there is no good reason for regarding this species as distinct 

 from funestus (Giles), and it is very probable that all the other 

 names will soon be sunk under the latter title. 



15. ANOPHELES CULICIFACIES (Giles). 

 (Coloured^Plate XI. Plate IX, Fig. 2 ; Plate VIII, Fig. 1.) 



References: Giles, Ento. Mo. Mag., 1901, p. 197; Handbook Mosq., 2nd Ed., 

 p. 317, and Rev. of Anoph., p. 29 ; Theobald, Monog. Culicid., Vol. Ill, p. 39 ; Lis- 

 ton, Ind. Med. Gaz., Dec., 1901. 



Synonym, Myzomyia Culicifacies (Theobald). 



This is a small dark mosquito closely resembling listoni, but 

 distinguished from that mosquito by having the third longitudinal 

 vein dark-scaled, and by the presence of a few light scales at the 

 tibio-metatarsal joints. 



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