III. 
ANNALES MUSEI NATIONALIS HUNGABICI. 
1905. 
A CATALOGUE OF THE CULICIDAE IN THE HUNGARIAN 
NATIONAL MUSEUM 
WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW GENERA AND SPECIES. 
By Fred. V. Theobald, M. A. 
(Plates I— IV and 15 text figures.) 
Preface. 
The notes and descriptions of Culicidæ recorded in this Catalogne are 
taken from the collection of the National Museum of Hungary. 
The material so beautifully mounted and collected by M. Biró has 
been graciously placed at my disposed by Dr. Kertész to whom I owe many 
thanks for the honour he has paid me. 
The types will be found in the Hungarian National Museum. 
Wye (England), June 1904. 
Introduction. 
The Culicidæ or Mosquitoes are of special importance amongst Di¬ 
ptera on account of the part they play in the spread of certain diseases. 
At least three well known complaints are connected with these in¬ 
sects, namely malaria, yellow fever and filariasis. The first named is 
spread by certain species of the Anophelina, the yellow fever by at least 
one Stegomyia and filariasis by certain Culex and possibly Mansonia 
and Taeniorhynchus. 
These flies not only act as carriers of disease germs, for the Ano- 
phelines play the part of secondary hosts, in which the blood parasites 
of malaria undergo certain stages of their life-history. 
There is reason to think that other fevers in tropical and warm 
climates may also be carried by Culicidæ. Their close study is therefore 
all the more essential. 
The number of species in this family at present described is about 
five hundred but I have at least another hundred new species as yet 
undescribed and twenty-five are described in this Catalogue with seven 
new genera. 
