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392 Habitat. Naini Tal.

Observations. Very like C. fatigans, from which it can be told by the relatively longer legs, smaller thoracic scales, and abdominal ornamen- tation.

Three species of this genus occur in India. They may easily be identified from other culices by the broad asymmetrical wing scales. The table below will be sufficient to identify them :

A. Thorax unspotted. uniformis. (Theobald.)

B. Thorax spotted.

Yellowish-brown ; wings with border-scales broad and asymme- trical, annulifera. (Theobald.) Blackish-brown ; wings with border-scales narrow.

annulipes. (Walker.)

An abundant species in South India, and also occurs in the Malay Peninsula.

I feel certain now that the Panoplites from Africa that I have described as P. Africanus ('Mono. Culicid.,' ii, p. 187) is only this species. Undoubted P. Africanus have been sent me by Mr. Green from Ceylon. The African form is very variable, and I now find the same of the Indian.

Occurs all over India, Malay Peninsula, and East Indies. It has also been recently sent me from Manila. Easily told from the following by its much paler hue, smaller size, and more banded and spotted appearance of the legs.

Much the same distribution as the above, but most abundant in the