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Duttonia africana Newstead, 1907, Ann. Trop. Med. Paras., I, p. 20, fig. 3 ( 9; Kasongo, Belgian 
Congo). 
Reedomyia biannulata Theobald, 1907, ‘Monogr. Culic.,’ IV, p. 263, fig. 81 (7; Sierra Leone); 
1910, loc. cit., V, p. 253, figs. 115-119 ( ¢). 
Aédes (Aédimorphus) tarsalis Wigglesworth, 1929, Bull. Ent. Res., XX, p. 67, fig. 6a-e (larva and 
pupa). : 
Reedomyia neobiannulata Theobald, 1910, ‘Monogr. Culic.,’ V, p. 255 (9 #; Accra and Obuasi, 
Gold Coast; Katemas, Bihé, Angola). 
Reedomyia bipunctata Theobald, 1910, ‘Monogr. Culic.,’ V, p. 256, fig. 120 (2; Obuasi, Gold 
Coast). 
Neopecomyia wniannulata Theobald, 1910, ‘Monogr. Culic.,’ V, p. 261, fig. 125 ( ¢; Kumasi, 
Gold Coast). 
Liperta. — Paiata, October 7, 1926; both sexes common near puddles of 
rain-water along a native path in dense, primary forest. The females did not 
attempt to bite. 
A. tarsalis is strictly West African, occurring from Sierra Leone to Angola 
and the Central Congo. 
Culex (Culex) quinquefasciatus Say 
Culex quinquefasciatus Say, 1823, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, III, p. 10 ( 9; Mississippi 
Valley). J. Bequaert, 1926, ‘Medical Rept. Hamilton Rice 7th Exp. Amazon,’ p. 201. Dyar, 
1928, ‘The Mosquitoes of the Americas,’ p. 380, Pl. CII, fig. 357. 
Culex fatigans Wiedemann, 1828, ‘Aussereurop. Zweifl. Ins.,’ I, p. 10 ( 2%; East Indies). Ed- 
wards, 1913, Bull. Ent. Res., IV, p. 55, fig. 4 (synonymy). Ingram and Macfie, 1917, loc. cit., 
VIII, p. 84, fig. 7 (pupa). Edwards, 1924, loc. cit., XIV, p. 395. 
The extensive synonymy has been given by Dyar (1928) and Edwards (1913 
and 1924). 
Liperia. — Monrovia, common in July 1926. 
BELGIAN ConGo.— Common on the Congo River, where specimens were 
taken on board ship in the Chenal, at Yumbi, at Irebu, at Coquilhatville, near 
Lulonga, near Nouvelle-Anvers, above Bumba, below Basoko, at Basoko, at 
Barumbu and above Ponthierville, in December 1926 and January 1927. 
TANGANYIKA TERRITORY. — Kigoma, January 24, 1927. 
As elsewhere in the tropics, this is the most common domestic mosquito in 
many localities of West Africa and the Belgian Congo. It occurs throughout 
the Ethiopian Region from the Sudan and Somaliland to Capetown. It is 
absent from North Africa, where it is replaced by the closely allied Culex pipiens 
Linnaeus. 
C’. quinquefasciatus is the regular and most common intermediary host of the 
human parasitic worm, Wuchereria bancroftt (Cobbold) (Microfilaria nocturna), 
the adult of which is often incriminated as the cause of elephantiasis in man. 
Culex (Culex) univittatus Theobald var. neavei Theobald 
Culex neavei Theobald, 1906, Second Rept. Wellcome Res. Lab. Khartoum, p. 76, fig. 37b, Pl. IX, 
fig. 4 (9; LImalas and Lado, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan); 1907, ‘Monogr. Culic.,’ IV, p. 429, 
fig. 188 ( ¢). Edwards, 1914, Bull. Ent. Res., V, 1, p. 67, fig. 4 (07). 
Ucanpa. — Kabale, at 6,400 ft. altitude, April 9, 1927. 
Ingram and Macfie (1919, Bull. Ent. Res., X, p. 68, fig. 7) have described a 
