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The larva is not improbably an inhabitant of the water between the leaves 

 of bromeliaceons plants and predaceous on the larvge of other sabethids. We 

 infer this from the rarity of the adults where found. The adult flies by day in 

 forests and bites only during the hot hours of the day (Peryassu) . 



Forest regions of tropical America. 



Cordoba, Mexico, adult captured, March 21, 1908 (F. Knab) ; San Rafael, 

 Vera Cruz, Mexico, June 22 (C. H. T. Townsend) ; Sonsonate, Salvador, Aug- 

 ust 29, 1905 (F. Knab) ; Rio Aranjuez, near Puntarenas, Costa Rica, September 

 13, 1905 (F. Knab) ; Las Loras, near Puntarenas, Costa Rica, September 8, 

 1905 (F. Knab) ; Santo Domingo, Costa Rica, September 19, 1905 (F. Knab) ; 

 Esparta, Costa Rica, September 18, 1905 (F. Knab) ; Bluefields, Nicaragua 

 (W. F. Thornton) ; Trinidad, British West Indies, June, 1905 (A. Busck) . The 

 species is also reported from Rio de Janeiro; Bahia; Sao Paulo and Taubate, 

 State of Sao Paulo ; Juiz de Fora, Oliveira, Descalvado, Lavras^ Barbacena, 

 Ouro-fino, Cysneiros, and Fazenda da Serra, in the State of Minas Geraes. Brazil 

 (Peryassii). 



This rare species (Sabethoides nitidus) needs further study. It is not im- 

 probable, following the usual condition, that the specimens from Mexico and 

 Central America represent a difi^erent species from the one in Trinidad. We 

 have not sufficient material to decide the point, only one specimen from Trinidad 

 being before us. If this should prove to be the case, the Central American form 

 will need a new name, as all the names in the synonymy refer to the Brazilian 

 form, including in its range Trinidad and Guiana. The synonymy is consid- 

 erably involved, owing to Theobald having mistaken females of a species of 

 Sahethes with scale-tufts on the legs for males of Sabethoides. He first described 

 the female as the female of Sahethes remipes Wiedemann ; later, recognizing his 

 error in part, he redescribed the female as Sahethes nitidus, but associated with 

 it a male of Sahethes with tufted legs; still later he again redescribed these 

 females as Sabethoides confusus, leaving the name nitidus to stand for the male 

 above associated, but wrongly, as the name was obviously founded upon the 

 female. We note that in the original description of Sabethes nitidus (female) 

 the probosis is said to be swollen at the apex, which is at variance with the ge- 

 neric character. As Theobald had several specimens before him it is quite likely 

 that his description of the female is a composite of two different insects. How- 

 ever, as he himself states that Sabethoides is founded on the specimen he 

 described as Sabethes nitidus, we feel obliged to accept this synonymy. 



Genus LIMATUS Theobald. 



Limatus Theobald, Mon. Culic, ii, 349, 1901. 



Simondella Laveran, C. R. hebd. Soc. Biol., liv., 1160, 1902. 



Aedeomyia Neveu-Lemalre (in part), Mem. Soc. Zool. de France, xv, 223, 1902. 



Limatus Giles, Gnats or Mosq., 2d ed., 513, 1902. 



Limatus Theobald, Mon. Culic, iii, 333, 1903. 



Limatus Lutz, in Bourroul, Mosquitos do Brasil, 57, 1904. 



Limatus Blanchard, Les Moustiques, 429, 1905. 



Limatus Theobald, Gen. Ins., Culic, 40, 1905. 



Wyeomyia Dyar & Knab (in part), Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xiv, 227, 1906. 



Limatus Coquillett, U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., Tech. Ser. 11, 27, 1906. 



Subfamily Limatinse Theobald, Mon. Culic, iv, 20, 627, 1907. 



Limatus Dyar & Knab, Can. Ent, xxxix, 49, 1907. 



Subfamily Limatinse Peryassu, Os Culicideos do Brazil, 30, 319, 1908. 



Limatus Williston, No. Amer. Dipt., 3 ed., 108, 1908. 



Limatus Pazos, San. y Ben., ii, 41, 44, 1909. 



Subfamily Limatinae Theobald, Mon. Culic, v, 595, 1910. 



The type species are : of Limatus Theobald, Limatus durhamii Theobald ; of 

 Simondella Laveran, Simondella curvirostris Laveran. 



