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the outer third of second and all of the third and fourth joints white on outer 

 side. Claw formula, 0.0-0.0-0.0. 



Length : Body about 3.5 mm. ; wing 3.2 mm. 



Male. Proboscis long and slender, tip hardly expanded. Palpi short, one- 

 seventh as long as proboscis. Antennae similar to those of the female, the joints 

 subequal, the hairs of the whorls longer than in the female, with small secondary 

 subapical whorls on the joints. Coloration as in the female. Abdomen elongate, 

 subcylindrical, expanded towards tip, with many coarse terminal bristles. Legs 

 colored as in the female. Wings slightly narrower than in the female, the 

 venation similar. Mid tarsi with a single large claw; claw formula, 0.0-0,-0.0. 



Length : Body about 3.5 mm. ; wing 3.2 mm. 



Genitalia (plate 4, fig. 17) : Side-pieces conical, the tips slenderly tapered and 

 bent downward. Three long setre near the base. Clasp-filament with a short, 

 stout stem which has a constriction on one side near the base, tip expanded and 

 divided into three lobes ; mid lobe short, rounded, smooth ; inner lobe slender, 

 smooth, bent, its tip divided into two digits ; outer lobe expanded, long, elliptical, 

 bearing a row of spines and crested by a small triangular expansion. Harpes 

 small, narrow, the tips bent and dentate. Unci inconspicuous. Basal append- 

 ages of two stout spines on each side. 



Mr. Jennings bred the species from larvae in bromelias on a fallen tree, but 

 unfortunately made no isolations. The adults fly by day. 



Panama to southern Mexico. 



Sonsonate, Salvador, August 19, 1905, adult captured (F. Knab) ; Santa 

 Lucrecia, State of Vera Cruz, Mexico, June 21, 1905, adult captured (F. Knab) ; 

 Empire, Canal Zone, Panama, March 2, 1909, larvae in bromelias (A. H. 

 Jennings). 



WYEOMYIA SMITHII (Coquillett) Felt. 



Culex pungens Smith (not Wiedemann), in Howard, Mosq., 83-90, 1901. 

 Aedes fuscus Howard (not Osten Sacken), Mosquitoes, 153, 1901. 



Smith, Ent. News, xii, 93, 125, 1901. 



Culex pnngens Smith (not Wiedemann), Ent. News, xii, 153, 1901. 



Aedes fuscus and Aedes sapphirinus Smith (not Osten Sacken), Ent. News, xii, 189, 



220, 1901. 

 Aedes smithii Coquillett, Can. Ent., xxxiii, 260, 1901. 

 Aedes smithii Smith (in part), Ent. News, xii, 254, 1901. 

 Aedes smithii Dyar, .Tourn. N. Y. Ent. Soc, ix, 178, 1901. 

 Aedes smithii Smith, .Tourn. N. Y. Ent. Soc, x, 10, 1902. 

 Aedes smithii Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., v, 51, 1902. 

 Aedes smithii Johannsen, Bull. 68, N. Y. State Mus., 425, 1903. 

 Aedes (Verrallina ?) smithii Theobald, Mon. Culic, iii, 295, 1903. 

 Aedes smithii Felt, Bull. 79, N. Y. State Mus., 341, 1904. 

 Wyeomyia smithii Felt, Bull. 79, N. Y. State Mus., 391e, 1904. 

 Wyeomyia smithii Smith, N. J. Agr. Exp. Sta., Rept. Mosq., 342, 1905. 

 Aedes smithi Blanchard, Les Moustiques, 403, 1905. 

 Wyeomyia smithii Dyar, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xiii, 23. 53, 1905. 

 Wyeomyia smithii Mitchell, Can. Ent., xxxvii, 332, 1905. 

 Wyeomyia smithii Felt, Bull. 97, N. Y. State Mus., 446, 493, 1905. 

 Wyeomyia smithii Knab, .Tourn. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xiii, 69, 1905. 

 Wyeomyia smithii Dyar & Knab, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xiv, 227, 1906. 

 Wyeomyia smithii Coquillett, U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., Tech. Ser. No. 11, 27, 1906. 

 Wyeomyia smithii Dyar, U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., Circular 72, 1, 1906. 



Jarvis, Can. Ent., xxxviii, 7, 1906. 



Dendromyia smithii Theobald, Mon. Culic, iv, 608, 1907. 

 Dendromyia smithi Peryassti (in part), Os Culic. do Brazil, 56, 309, 1908. 

 Wyeomyia smithii Viereck, 1st Ann. Rept. Comm. Health Pa., 471, 1908. 

 Dendromyia smithii Theobald (in part), Mon. Culic, v, 588. 1910. 

 Wyeomyia smithii Morse, Ann. Rept. N. J. State Mus., 1909, 721, 1910. 



