PLEA FOR INVESTIGATION OF INDIAN CULICIDIG, 603 
Tt is rarely necessary to confine males as most species couple immediately 
after escape from the pupa. 
The above appliance is also useful for obtaining from larve, large numbers 
of individuals for use in observations on malaria, filariasis, &c. A piece of 
cardboard is slipped under the opening so as to close it, and in this way the 
contained mosquitoes can be carried without injury to the subject of 
experiment, and liberated under his mosquito net by simply removing the 
card and inverting the net. 
The writer will be extremely grateful for any specimens collectors may 
send him to the undermentioned address— 
G. M. GILES, M.B., F.B.C.8,, Lieut-Col., 1.US., 
Byfield Mannamead, Plymouth, 
England. 
(Author of ‘“ A Handbook of the Gnats or Mosquitoes.” London : 
John BaJe, Sons, and Danielsson, 83, 85, Gt. Titchfield Street, Lon- 
don, W.) 
A PRODROMUS OF THE INDIAN CULICIDE. 
Two years’ ago, when I took up the task of collecting the literature of 
the Culzeide, ibis an actual fact that no more than four species were 
recorded as having been found in all India, There was in fact 
hardly any other known country with such scanty records of the sub- 
ject. 
The subjoined list includes 32 species, and I have little doubt the final 
total of species will be found to be not far off a hundred, as new species 
are constantly turning up, and I find that many Huropean species are to 
be met with in the Himalayas, while the wide range of climate of the 
plains renders the occurrence of a wide variety of forms a practical 
certainty. 
The species enumerated below it must be understood are merely those 
that. have been verified by myself. When Mr. Theobald’s work on the 
collections that have been made for the British Museum appears, the 
number will doubtless be largely increased. In the case of new species 
it must be understood that the names are provisional, as it is very possible 
that, though we are in correspondence, some may have been described 
under a different new name by him. 
The short descriptions are based on a systematic plan in which 
only a few points are noticed, and the number preceding the name 
refers to the position the species takes, or would take, in the system 
of tabulation adopted in my recently-published Handbook of the 
group. 
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