Genus Culex. 225 
CULEX FATIGANS. Wiedemann. 
Culex anxifer. Coquerel (Bigot). 
Auss. Zweifltig. Ins., p. 10, 1828, Wiedemann; Mono. Culicid. II., p. 151, 
1901, Theobald; Soc. Ent. de France, 1858, Annales (anzvfer).) 
Additional localities and dates of capture.—British Guiana 
(Dr. Low), July; Ceylon, at Kurmregalla, Badulla, Balangoda, 
Keleni Valley (Green), in January, March and November ; 
Mozufferpur, Major Green; Sidney and Brisbane, N.S.W. 
(Froggatt), April and December; Mombasa (J. C. Johnson), 
August ; Antigua (Forrest), June and July ; Mauritius (Daruty 
and d’Emmerez) ; Straits Settlements, the Dindings, Perak (Dr. 
Wright); Trinidad, Chagnanas and Cunupia (Dr. Lascalle) ; 
St. Kitts, Dominica, Barbados, Carriacon, Grenada (Dr. Low) ; 
Victoria, Seychelles (R. Denman); Sambalpur (Murphy) ; 
Etawah, N.W.P. (Major Scotland); Shaohyling, China 
(Cornford). 
Notes and observations.—Dr. B. G. Corney, writing from 
Fiji, describes this species as the “nocturnal mosquito taken 
in dwelling-houses on a small hill about sixty feet above 
surrounding plain, under cultivation with sugar-cane, for 
1,500 acres, well-drained, a river flowing through — locality 
Navna.” : 
The Mombasa specimens sent by Dr. Johnson were taken in 
native huts. They present minor differences to the type, the 
first sub-marginal cell being rather long, the abdominal banding 
mostly crescentic, but in one specimen triangular. The specimens 
sent from Mauritius under the name C. anaifer, Bigot, are 
apparently large, dark fatigans only. This name must, I think, 
sink as a synonym. 
Dr.. Low sent the following notes on this cosmopolitan 
SCC Le 
“ Breeding grounds.—A typical domestic mosquito. I have 
never seen it breeding except in the artificial collections about 
houses, e.g., water barrels, wells, tubs, tanks, privies, fountains, 
cisterns and such similar sites. Commonly found in the same 
water as Stegomyia fasciata. I remember a barrel of water in 
St. Lucia where I used to obtain my larvae for experimental 
purposes was simply teeming with both sorts. Kept together 
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