62 MOSQUITOES OF NORTH AMERICA 



WYEOMYIA MINOR Dyar & Knab. 



Wyeomyia minor Dyar & Knab, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xix, 138, 1906. 

 Wieomyia minor Pazos, San. y Ben., ii, 51, 678, 1909. 

 Wyeomyia minor Theobald, Mon. Culic, v, 624, 1910. 



Oeiginal Description of Wyeomyia minoe: 



Head blackish, a silvery spot on vertex; proboscis black; prothoracic lobes silvery 

 white; thorax light bronzy brown; pleurae and coxs silvery; abdomen black, pale 

 beneath; legs dark, femora and tibiae pale below, middle pair without whitish on 

 tarsi above; hind pair with the tarsi from side view silvery at the bases of the joints. 



7 specimens, Baracoa, Cuba, September, 1901 (A. Busck). 



Type. Cat. No. 9992, U. S. Nat. Mus. 

 Descbiption of Female of Wyeomyia minor (Male and Larva Unknown) : 



Female. Proboscis moderate, swollen apically, labellse small, rounded, with 

 fine outstanding setse ; vestiture with bronzy reflection. Palpi short, flattened, 

 one-eighth as long as proboscis, bronzy black. Antennae moderate, the joints 

 slender, subequal, rugose, pilose, black; tori subspherical with a cup-shaped 

 apical excavation, yellowish with a silvery- white pruinosity; hairs of whorls 

 long, rather sparse, black. Clypeus rounded triangular, convex, slightly prui- 

 nose, luteous brown. Eyes separated at vertex by a rather broad wedge, bluish 

 black. Occiput clothed with fiat brown scales with a metallic reflection, a 

 silvery-white spot at vertex and a narrow white border along lower half of eye, 

 widening to a patch below. 



Prothoracic lobes elliptical, remote dorsally, clothed with flat scales, silvery- 

 white ; a row of black setas anteriorly. Mesonotum clothed with elliptical, flat 

 brown scales, with bronzy reflections ; scales on anterior lateral angles whitish. 

 Scutellum trilobate, with the vestiture similar to and continuous with that of 

 mesonotum, each lobe with a small tuft of black bristles. Postnotum elliptical, 

 prominent, with a low, broad median carina, dark-brown, a group of small setas 

 on the posterior margin. Pleura? dark-broAvn, the coxse luteous, clothed with 

 elliptical, flat, silvery-white scales. 



Abdomen subcylindrical, truncate at tip, with long, dark-brown terminal setae ; 

 dorsal vestiture black, with a slight bronzy metallic reflection ; eighth segment 

 dorsally silver-scaled ; venter white, the colors separated at the sides in a straight 

 line. 



Wings moderate, hyaline; petiole of second marginal cell over one-third as 

 long as its cell ; that of second posterior cell shorter than its cell ; basal cross- 

 vein distant nearly its own length from anterior cross-vein; outstanding scales 

 of veins long, ligulate, brown, with bronzy reflection on costa, denser on forks 

 of second, third and upper branch of fourth vein outwardly. Halteres whitish, 

 with dark knobs. 



Legs rather slender, brown, with a bronzy and blue reflection ; femora and 

 tibiae pale beneath ; hind legs with basal half of flrst tarsal joint white beneath, 

 the other joints with a basal white mark beneath. Claw formula, 0.0-0.0-0.0. 



Length: Body about 2.2 mm. ; wing 2.5 mm. 



Life history and habits unknown. 



Cuba. 



Baracoa, September, 1901 (A. Busck). 



WYEOMYIA BAHAMA Dyar & Knab. 

 Wyeomyia smithii Coffin (not Coquillett), in Shattuck, The Bahama Isls., 282, 1905. 

 Wyeomyia Bahama Dyar & Knab, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xix, 138, 1906. 

 Wyeomyia bahama Johnson, Psyche, xv, 70, 1908. 

 Wyeomyia bahama Theobald, Mon. Culic, v. 623, 1910. 



Original Description of Wyeomyia bahama: 



Proboscis black, bronzy beneath, rather short, much thickened at the tip; head 

 black, a white spot at vertex, silvery at the sides; prothoracic lobes silvery; thorax 



