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sparse, rather long, black. Clypeiis ovate, rounded, blackish brown, clothed 

 with flat, appressed, small purplish-gray scales. Eyes black, contiguous at the 

 vertex. Occiput smoothly clothed with flat appressed scales, black, with metallic 

 grayish reflection ; cheeks dull silvery, color extending up along margins of eyes 

 but not reaching vertex ; a row of erect, short, broad, forked black scales along 

 posterior margin; two very long, coarse, black sette at vertex, a row of long, 

 black setae along margin of eyes. 



Prothoracic lobes large, elliptical, remote dorsally, luteous, densely clothed 

 with flat blackish scales with greenish luster, a row of setae along the anterior 

 margin. Mesonotum brown, densely clothed with small elliptical scales, grayish 

 brown ; a row of bristles around the edges of the disk and the ante-scutellar area. 

 Scutellum trilobate, vestiture of broad, flat dark-brownish scales with slight 

 gray reflection, each lobe with a tuft of black bristles. Postnotum elliptical, 

 prominent, brown, with a small tuft of setae posteriorly. Pleura brown in 

 middle, coxae luteous, clothed with patches of silvery-white scales. 



Abdomen subcylindrical, blunt at tip, with terminal bristles ; dorsal vestiture 

 black, without distinct metallic reflection ; venter pale ocherous yellow, the colors 

 separated on the sides in a straight line. 



Wing narrow, slightly smoky ; petiole of second marginal cell about one-third 

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

 vein less than its own length behind anterior cross- vein ; scales of veins elliptical, 

 obliquely subtruncate at tip, brown, black on costa, dense, overlapping. Halteres 

 black, except at base. 



Legs moderate, vestiture not roughened, black with bronzy and blue reflection, 

 femora paler beneath ; apices of hind tibiae and base of first tarsal joint ciliate 

 for a short distance. Claw formula, 0.0-0.0-0.0. 



Length : Body about 4 mm. ; wing 4 mm. 



We have no information on the life history and habits. 



Panama. 



One specimen, Caldera Island, Porto Bello Bay, adult captured (A. H. 

 Jennings). 



Genus LESTICOCAMPA Dyar & Knab. 



Sabethes Giles (in part), Gnats or Mosq., 183, 1900. 



Wyeomyia Theobald (in part), Mon. Culicid., ii, 267, 1901. 



Joblotia Theobald (in part), Mon. Culic, iii, 334, 1903. 



Joblotia Lutz (not Blanchard), in Bourroul, Mosquitos do Brasil, 56, 1904. 



Joblotia Theobald (in part). Gen. Ins., Culicid., 33, 1905. 



Joblotia Blanchard (in part), Les Moustiques, 428, 1905. 



Lesticocavipa Dyar & Knab, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xiv, 225, 226, 1906. 



Trichoprosopon Coquillett (in part), U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., Tech. Ser. 11, 27, 1906. 



Lesticocampa Dyar & Knab, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xix, 137, 1906. 



Joblotia Theobald (not Blanchard), Mon. Culic, iv, 594, 1907. 



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



Lesticocampa Dyar & Knab, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xv, 248, 1907. 



Joblotia Peryassu (not Blanchard), Os Culicid. do Brazil, 38, 1908. 



Lesticocampa Williston, Man. No. Am. Dipt., 3 ed., 108, 1908. 



Joblotina Pazos (in part), San. y Ben., ii, 42, 1909. 



Lesticocampa Pazos, San. y Ben., ii, 44, 1909. 



Trichoprosopon Theobald (in part), Mon. Culic, v, 556, 1910. 



Lestitocampa Theobald, Mon. Culic, v, 621, 1910. 



Joblotia Theobald (not Blanchard), Mon. Culic, v, 621, 1910. 



The type species of Lesticocampa Dyar & Knab is Wyeomyia lunata Theobald. 



Geneeic Diagnosis of AntrLT: 



Proboscis long and slender, not swollen at the tip; palpi short in the female, short 

 or long in the male, from one-eighth to nearly as long as the proboscis, very slender; 

 eyes contiguous; clypeus without setse or scales; antennae with the joints subequal. 



