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Culex tigripes. Grandpre. 
var. fusca. nov. var. 
No trace of abdominal banding, but traces of basal lateral 
pale spots ; abdominal hairs fuscous (not pale as in the type). 
There are two pale scaled, round, thoracic spots on the dorsum. 
Length. —5 mm. 
Habitat. —Obuasi, Ashanti (15. xi. 07) (Dr. Graham). 
Observations. —A small dark variety, bred from a larva in a 
hollow tree. I can see no structural difference from the large 
typical C. tigripes. 
Culex (?) concolor, Desvoidy (1825). 
Mem. de la Soc. d’Hist. Nat. de Paris, IV., 405 (1825), Desvoidy; Mono. 
Culicid. II., 107 (1901), Theobald: Journ. Trop. Med. VII., 868 (1904), 
Giles ; Gen. Ins. Culicid. 29 (1905), Theobald ; Phil. Journ. Sci. I., 9, 
986 (1906), Banks ; Mosq. Philip. Isis., 9 (1908), Ludlow. 
Note. —Giles places this in Taeniorliynchus (Journ. Trop. Med. 
Dec. 15, 383, 1904). It bears as far as I can see no resemblance 
to any member of that genus. 
India ; Straits Settlements ; Burma ; China. 
Additional localities. —Pampanga, Camp Stotsenberg, Angeles 
P. I. (E. R. Whitmore) (in Banks); Phrapatoon, Siam, viii. 06 
(Dr. P. G. Woolley) ; Samarang, Java (Jacobson and Piepers), 
4 9’s, 1 4 , i. 08, in Amsterdam Museum ; Calcutta, 7. iii 07 ; 
4. vii. 07 ; 5. vii. 07 (6); 15. vii. 07 ; 17. vii, 07 ; 23. vii. 07 ; 
31. vii. 07 ; in Zoological Gardens, 12. vii. 08 (2) and 26. vii. 08 
(6) (N. A.) ; 3. 4. and 5. viii. 07 (N. A.) ; also in June, Sep¬ 
tember, October and November (N. Annandale) ; Ballyganj, 
Calcutta (T. Bentham), 10. viii. 08 and 11. x. 08; Purneah, N. 
Bengal, 5. viii. 07 (C. Paiva); 6. viii. 07 (2); 4. viii. 07 ; 
Kulattupazha, W. base of W. Ghats, Travancore, 19. xi. 08, 
“ In Bungalow 55 (Annandale) ; Port Canning, Lower Bengal, 
December; Damukdia Ghat, N. Bengal, July; Sylhet, Assam, 
February, April, May, December (Major Hall); Manipur, Assam, 
August (C. A. Gourlay) ; Andaman Islands, 1 4 an d 1 9 (Ray 
White). 
