KEPOKT ON THE COLLECTIONS OF MOSQUITOES. 
A large number of mosquitoes belonging to the Dipterous 
Family Culicidce have been received at the Museum during the 
past year from various parts of the world. 
At the request of the Director I have undertaken the work of 
identifying and describing the specimens which have been and 
are still being received from various quarters, and to prepare a 
monograph of the Culicidce. 
The combined collections contain a large number of species and 
considerably over 3,000 specimens. 
The majority belong to the genus Culej; but a fair number, 
some 400 odd specimens, to the genus Anopheles and a few to 
other genera such as Psorophora, R. Desv., Aedes, Meig., 
Haemagoc/us, Will., etc. 
At present I have completed the genus Anopheles, which is 
represented by twenty-two species, ten of which are new, whilst 
four of the remainder (A funestus, A. fuliginosus, A. Lindsayii, 
and A. Rossii) have only recently been described by Major Giles, 
I. M.S. There still remain eight or nine well defined species 
which are not represented in the collections. Those from India 
and the Straits Settlements sent by Captain S. P. James, I.M.S., 
Dr. Goodrich, Mr. Daniells, and Mr. Wray have proved the 
most interesting, all the species, except one, A. Sinensis, Wied., 
from the Straits Settlements, being new. 
The Anoplieles, unlike Cule.v, does not appear to have a wide 
distribution in regard to species, although the genus is world- 
wide. One of the greatest distances between any two Localities 
for the same species is Formosa and the Straits Settlements, from 
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