Survey of the anopheline fauna of the Western Ghats in Tamil, Nadu, India.

The foothills of the Western Ghats were once hyperendemic for malaria. These hill ranges have an extremely rich flora and fauna. The earliest surveys of anophelines were carried out in the early decades of this century, and culminated in the publication of a monograph on the Indian anophelines by Christophers in 1933. Subsequently, studies were carried out by Covell and Harbhagwan (1939) and Vedamanikkam (1949; 1952) in the Wynaad area, Russell and Jacob (1942) in the Nilgiris, Measham and Chowdhuri (1934) in the Anaimalais, Ramachandra Rao (1945) and Jaswant Singh and Jacob (1944) in North Kanara District, and Brooke Worth (1953) in Hassan District. The number of species recorded in this area by these workers was 30. In all cases Anopheles (Cellia) fluviatilis was incriminated as the vector of malaria. Later Wattal et al. (1962) and Kalra and Wattal (1962) reexamined the specimens from early surveys in the