52 A Monograph of Culicidae. 



Notes and observations. — This species is seen to vary much in 

 size and position of cross-veins. The larvae occur in "borrow 

 pits " by the sides of railways, in rice fields, and in irrigation 

 water-courses. It is also found in drying-up river beds in the 

 Deccan, and is found in houses throughout the hot and cold 

 weather. 



It is a proved malaria carrier in the Mian Mir, Punjab, and 

 Ennur, Madras (James and Liston). 



Colonel Giles (2nd ed. Handbk. Gnats, p. 317) states the 

 abdomen is completely clothed with yellowish and deep brown 

 scales. There are none at all in this or any other Myzomyia. 

 Its Culex-like position when resting is very characteristic. 



The larvae have a pair of palmate hairs on the thorax as well 

 as those on the abdomen, but they are not well developed ; the 

 terminal filaments are short. 



Myzomyia turkhudi. Liston (1901). 



Anopheles turkhudi. Liston (1901). 

 Anopheles culicifacies, $. Giles (1901). 



Ind. Med. Gaz. Dec, p. 441 (1901), Liston; Mono. Culicid. III., p. 48 (1903), 

 Theobald; Handbk. Gnats, 2nd ed., p. 330 (1903), Giles; Eevis. Anop., 

 p. 30 (1904), Giles. 



Additional localities. — Nagpur, Central Provinces ; Aurun- 

 gabad, Hyderabad State ; Kashmir (Capts. James and Liston, 

 I.M.S.). 



Economic importance. — It has been proved that under experi- 

 mental conditions the parasites of human malaria are capable of 

 developing in this species (James and Liston). 



Note. — Giles, in " Revision of the Anophelinae," p. 3, says, 

 " In Mr. Theobald's Monograph the $ is described as Culicifacies." 

 The description was drawn up from his <J type. 



Myzomyia. n. sp. 



A single much damaged Myzomyia was taken at Bor by 

 Dr. Balfour, but it is too imperfect to describe, I am sure it is 

 a new species however. Its marked feature is the pale grey 

 ventral surface ; the wings have only two yellow costal spots 

 and a yellow apical spot which extends on to the first long vein, 

 another pale spot towards the base of the first long vein, not 

 reaching the costa and the base of the vein yellowish ; a pale 

 spot at the base of each fork-cell, another at the cross-veins and 



