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slightly more plumose in the male than in the female. Vestiture of flat, appressed 

 scales, the head with a collar-like row of upright forked-scales on the nape. Meso- 

 notum without setae on the disk. Prothoracic lobes moderate, well separated dor- 

 sally. Abdomen subcylindrical, blunt at the tip. Legs long and slender, the hind 

 ones ciliate in some species; claws small, equal and simple in the female, one claw 

 of the hind pair very slender in some species; in the male unequal on the front and 

 mid legs, some of them modified. 



Genebic Diagnosis of Larva: 



Maxillae prominent, elongate, visible from above, armed with two large, unequal 

 terminal teeth; air-tube spiculate, with a fringe of fine hair along the posterior 

 margin; lateral comb of the eighth segment of few or many scales, either in a single 

 row or in a patch; anal segment with dorsal plate and pair of subventral tufts; anal 

 gills well developed. 



Forested regions of tropical America. 



The genus Lesticocampa has been recognized by Theobald and authors follow- 

 ing him under the name Johlotia Blanchard. This is inadmissible, since 

 Joblotia was proposed as a substitute for Triclioprosopon Theobald, which was 

 considered preoccupied by Trichoprosopus Macquart. Lutz considered both 

 names allowable, and proposed to use Johlotia for the forms here classified under 

 Lesticocampa, which had been wrongly associated with Trichoprosopon= 

 Joblotia. But as Blanchard has specified nivipes Theobald ( = digitatus 

 Eondani) as the type of Johlotia, any change is inadmissible. The statement 

 of Theobald concerning the type species of Lesticocampa, Wyeomyia lunata 

 Theobald, that " the hairs on the clypeus are quite distinct" (Mon. Culic, iii, 

 336, 1903) proves to be erroneous, and is corrected by him (Mon. Culicid., iv, 

 594, 1907) ; although afterwards again contradicted (Mon. Culic, v, 557, 1910) 

 it is once more corrected (Mon. Culic, v, 621, 1910). 



The larvae are predaceous upon those of species of Culex or Wyeomyia, living 

 in the water between the flower-sheaths or leaves of different plani^. These 

 places often contain but little water and that of a slimy character. The larvae 

 are apparently wholly predaceous in their habits ; they occur singly and the 

 species are comparatively rare. The habits of the adults are unknown to us. 



Tables of the Species. 

 Adults, Structuee and Coloration. 



1. Tarsi all black 2 



Mid tarsi only marked with white. . . . larnvro-pus Howard, Dyar & Knab (p. 167) 

 Hind tarsi marked with white 3 



2. Scutellum metallic blue-scaled: palpi of male long. . rapax Dyar & Knab (p. 164) 

 Scutellum with the mid lobe silver-scaled; palpi of the male short 



dicellaphora Howard, Dyar & Knab (p. 166) 



3. Hind tarsi marked with white at bases of joints; mid tarsi without white 



schedocyclia Dyar & KZnab (p. 174) 

 White markings at the tips of mid and hind tarsi 4 



4. Second hind tarsal joint not ciliate; tip of fourth joint white 



leucopus Dyar & Knab (p. 170) 

 Second hind tarsal joint ciliate; over half of the fourth joint white 5 



5. Palpi of female as long as six joints of antennae longipes Pabricius (p. 172) 



Palpi of female as long as four joints of antennae 



cuUcivora Dyar & Knab (p. 16S) 



adults, male genitalia (lesticocampa and joblotia). 



1. Basal appendages contiguous, with short spines 2 



Basal appendages separate, with long spines 3 



2. Basal lobe of side-piece beyond base, its setae lateral 



L. dicellaphora Howard, Dyar & Knab (p. 167) 

 Basal lobe of side-piece close to base, its setae terminal 



J. digitatus Rondani (p. 179) 



3. Side-pieces with three long setae on inner margin. 7 



Side-pieces without such setae 4 



4. Side-pieces long and very slender L. leucopus Dyar & Knab (p. 171) 



Side-pieces moderate or stoutly conical 5 



5. Basal appendages longer than wide J. trichorryes Dyar & Knab (p. 184) 



Basal appendages wider than long 6 



