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paran, Bengal, 7. iii. 08; Rangoon, Burma, 24 and 25. ii. 08 (N.A.); 
Mandalay, N. Burma, 11 and 12. iii. 08 (1ST.A.) ; Balighai, near 
Puri, Orissa, 26. x. 08 (8); 25. x. 08 (3) ; 24. x. 08 (2), “ in house, 
bites occasionally by day ” ; 23. x. 08 (6), “ in house, comes to 
light ”; Shencottah, Madras Frontier, E. side of W. Ghats, 
Travancore, 25. xi. 08 (4) (Annandale); Port Canning, Lower 
Bengal, 9. x. 08 (N.A.); Pallode, 20 miles N.E. of Trivandrum, 
Travancore, 15. xi. 08 (N.A.) ; Ernakulam, Cochin State, Mala¬ 
bar, 4. xi. 08 (N.A.); Shasthancottah, 12 miles N.N.E. of Quilon, 
Travancore, 6. xi. 08, 7. xi. 08 (2) ; 8. vi. 08 (2); Trivandrum, 
Travancore, 12. xi. 08 (3); 13. xi. 08 & 14. xi. 08 (2); Nedu- 
mangad, 10 miles N.E. of Trivandrum, Travancore, 14. xi. 08 (2) 
(Annandale) ; Yaikan, Coastal Region, Travancore, 5. xi. 08 ; 
Kulattupuzha, W. base, W. Ghats, Travancore, 19. xi. 08 (Annan¬ 
dale) ; Tenmalai, W. Ghats, W. side, Travancore, 22. xi. 08 
(Annandale) ; Bhogaon, 3. x. 08 (2) ; 7 . x. 08 (3); 6. x. 08 (1); 
Chittagong, E. Bengal, 26. vii. 00 (Lt.-Col. Hall). 
CuLEX TAENIORHYNCHOIDES. Giles (1904). 
Journ. of Trop. Med., p. 369, Dec. 1, 1904. 
“ Wing dark, unspotted. Tarsi barely perceptible basally 
yellow-handed on some of the distal joints, but not on the first 
tarsals. Thorax sooty grounded, with bronzy-golden curved 
scales in front and dense tufts of black scales and bristles behind 
over the roots of the wings. Abdomen sooty, with barely visible 
ochreous basal bands. Proboscis black, with a sharply defined 
ochreous band on the middle. 
9 . Palpi black. Head clothed with black forked scales and 
dark ochreous narrow-curved, with a golden spot on the lateral 
flat-scaled areas. Pleurae mainly dark. Femora and tibiae with 
rows of yellow specks. Abdomen quite without pale lateral 
spots. Venter dark, with broad ochreous basal bands. 
A rather large species. 
Habitat. —Benguela, Angola.” 
Type in the British Museum. 
Culex thalassius. Theobald (1903). 
Mono. Culicid. III., 168 (1903). 
Gambia. * 
Type in the British Museum. 
