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(3) by the median thoracic stripe being continued through 
the hare spot instead of on each side of it. 
The following three large Culicines probably come in a 
distinct genus, but have not been worked out; they cannot be 
separated on scale structure or venation. 
CQLEX (?) tigripes. Grandpre et Charmoy (1900). 
Culex maculicrura » Theobald (1901). 
Les Moust. (Planters. Gaz. Press), (1900), de Grandpre and de Charmoy; 
Mono. Cnlicid. II., 34, 65 (1901) Theobald ; Handbk. Gnats, 407 (1902), 
Giles; Mono. Culicid. III., 227 (1903), Theobald; Journ. Trop. Med. 
VII., 368 (1904), Giles ; Phil. Journ. Sci. I., 9, 988 (1906), Banks; Rec. 
Ind. Mus. II., pt. ii., No. 30, 298 (1908), Theobald; Ann. Trop. Med. 
and Par. II., No. 3, 262 (1908), d’Emmerez de Charmoy. 
Sierra Leone, Bonny ; Mombasa; Natal; Mashonaland ; 
British Central Africa ; Mauritius ; Queensland. 
Additional localities. —Mandalay, Upper Burma, 11. iii. 08 
(N. A.) ; Kurseong, E. Himalayas, 5,000 feet, 4. viii. 08 (N. A.); 
Delagoa Bay, E. Africa (Jose E. Sant Anna), 1 £ and 1 9 \ 
Mpuma, Uganda, 2 f ’s and 3 9’s (Sir David Bruce); Pampanga, 
Camp Stotsenberg, Angeles, P. I. (E. R. Whitmore) ; Calcutta ; 
Damukdia Ghat, E. Bengal; Manipur (C. A. Gourlay) ; Sylhet, 
Assam (Major Hall); Port Canning, Lower Bengal; Accra, 
Ashanti (Graham); D’thala, Aden Hinterland; Elsenberg, 
Stellenbosch (C. G. H.), 1. 07 ; Fernwood, Cape Colony (bred 
from horse trough), collected 9. x. 06, emerged 16. x. 06 (per C. 
Lounsbury); Johnstone River, Queensland (Dr. Bancroft) ; 
Kirindi, Ceylon, S. P. (T. B. F.), 1 9 > 20. xi. 08 ; Weligama, 
Ceylon, S. P., 3 9’s, 3. i. 08 ; Dondra, Ceylon, l % , 2. xii. 07 
(E. Green) ; Hambantota,- Ceylon, 1 9 > 28. iv. 08 ; Mandulsima, 
Uva Province, Ceylon (T. B. E.), 14. xii. 08, 1 9 • 
Time of capture .—August to November in Calcutta; July, 
Damukdia Ghat; August, Manipur ; February, April, May, at 
Sylhet, and in December ; December, at Port Canning ; June, 
at Accra. 
Observations .—Bred from larva in barrel and another taken in 
latrine by Graham at Accra. D’Emmerez de Charmoy says very 
common and one of the largest species known in Mauritius. 
The larvae are carnivorous and eat one another. Patton found 
the larva at D’thala in an old tank containing rain water and 
feeding as Culex fatigans, 
