Genus Culec. 22% 
will not breed away from houses, not a hundred yards even, 
never in ponds or large water courses, but always in tanks, 
water troughs, ashpit-closets, etc. It never 
goes wild and never flies about in the 
day-time.” Of course, as pointed out in 
Vol. IL., p. 164, this refers to C. fatigans, 
Wiedemann. 
This species is a regular pest in St. 
Michaels, Azores, and in Madeira, and is 
very troublesome at night. Local medical 
men informed Dr. Grabham that they 
often meet with cases of elephantiasis. 
_ The Larva (figs. 118 and 119) of the sub- 
species Skusii (Giles) has not a very long 
siphon when adult, but has when young ; 
the sides of it have eleven spiny processes, 
with six or seven rays. These seem the 
most characteristic feature in the larva. 

Fig. 119. 
The antennae terminate in six bristly hairs, Antenna of larva of 
C. fatigans, sub. sp. Shkusit. 
and have a dense long lateral tuft. The 
clypeus is rather spiny, and there are two frontal bristles. 
The larva figured here came from Queensland per Dr. Bancroft. 
CULEX TIGRIPES. Grandpré (1900). 
Culex maculicrura. Theobald (1901).* 
(Mono. Culicid. I., p. 34, 1901.) 
This is the most interesting species in the collections sent by 
Dr. Bancroft from Australia. It was described as C. maculicrura 
in the “Monograph of Culicidae,” + but whilst in the press 
Grandpré and Charmoy described it as C. tigripes. This very 
marked mosquito has a peculiar distribution. Specimens have 
been received from Natal, British Central Africa, Mashonaland, 
Bonny, and Mombasa, as well as Australia. Grandpré described 
it from Mauritius. The series from Queensland consists of five ?’s 
and seven ¢’s. I can detect no difference in them from those 
taken in Africa. It is called by Dr. Bancroft the “long-lived 
* T have not had time to make a fresh examination of this species, but 
I feel sure it must be removed from Culex. The larvae present marked 
peculiarities not seen in Culex, and also the two following species, concolor 
and Halifaxw. 
¢ Vol. Il. pp. 34-37. 
