468 MOSQUITOES OF NOETH AMERICA 



Male Genitalia. 



1. Harpagones subquadrate, distally with three large curved teeth 



aUostigma Howard, Dyar & Knab (p. 472) 

 Harpagones conical, taper-pointed, with a series of small teeth on inner 



margins bigoti Bellardi (p. 469) 



LABV-i:. 



1. Pecten of 7-9 teeth, well separated and extending far beyond middle of tube 



bigoti Bellardi (p. 470) 

 Pecten of 10-12 teeth, not extending much beyond middle of tube 



aUostigma Howard, Dyar & Knab (p. 472) 



LUTZIA BIGOTI (Bellardi) Theobald. 



Culex bigoti Bellardi, Mem. Ace. Sc. Torino, xxi, 200, 1862. 



Culex bigoti Osten Sacken, Smiths. Misc. Colls., xvi, 19, 1878. 



Culex bigotii Giles, Gnats or Mosq., 209, 1900. 



Culex bigotii Theobald, Mon. Culic, i, 343, 1901. 



Culex bigotii Giles, Gnats or Mosq., 2 ed., 390, 1902. 



Lutzia bigotii Theobald, Mon. Culic, iii, 155, 1903. 



Lutzia bigotii Lutz, in Bourroul, Mosq. do Brasil, 38, 1904. 



Taenia rhynchus bigotii Giles, Journ. Trop. Med., vii, 382, 1904. 



Culex bigotii Blanchard, Les Moustiques, 275, 1905. 



Lutzia bigotii Blanchard, Les Moustiques, 394, 1905. 



Lutzia bigotii Dyar & Knab (in part), Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xiv, 180, 1906. 



Lutzia bigotii Coquillett (in part), U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., Tech. Ser. 11, 22, 1906. 



Lutzia bigoti Peryassu, Os Culicid. do Brazil, 45, 182, 343, 1908. 



Lutzia bigotii Theobald, Mon. Culic, v, 293, 1910. 



Origixal Desceiption of Culex bigoti: 



Femm. Flavus, flavo-nigro-villosus. Capite fusco, flavo-villoso: antennis fuscis; 

 articulis basalibus antice posticeque flavescentibus : palpis flavis, ad basim nigro- 

 villosis: proboscide longiuscula, flava, ad basim irregulariter nigro-squamosa, ad 

 apicem fusca. Thorace convexiusculo, flavo-fuscescente, dorso obscuriore, flavo- 

 aureo-tomentoso: pleuris flavidis: pectore fuscescente : scutello, metathorace et hal- 

 teribus flavidis. Abdoviine flavo: segmentis omnibus antice transversim late vitta- 

 tis: vitta e tomento nigro, lata, dorso postice profunde emarginata. Pedibus flavidis, 

 nigro-tomentosis : articulationibus pallidis, non nigro-tomentosis. Alls hyalinis. ad 

 marginem anticum flavidis: nervis squamosis: squamis nigris, in tres maculas 

 margini antico et apici contiguas dispositis : squamis intermediis flavidis. 



Lunghezza del corpo 9nim Lunghezza delle ali 17^. 



II colore biondo generale del corpo, il tomento nero della porzione anteriore degli 

 anelli dell'addome e le squame nere dei nervi delle ali disposte in tre macchie cos- 

 tituiscono i caratteri proprii di questa specie. 



Messico (Salle). 



Collezione Bigot. 



Description of Female, Male, and Larva of Lutzia bigoti: 



Female. Proboscis moderate, uniform, subc3^1indrical, labells couically 

 tapered ; vestiture largely yellowish-white, intermixed with black scales at base, 

 a broad black subapical band. Palpi short, stout, densely hairy, less than one- 

 fourth as long as the proboscis, clothed with black and yellowish-white scales 

 intermixed tending to form bands, some silvery scales apically. Antennas with 

 basal joints shorter, rugose, pilose, black, second joint longer than third and not 

 swollen, basal joints pale at their tips; tori subspherical, with a cup-shaped 

 apical excavation, brown, with a group of yellowish- white scales on inner side ; 

 hairs of whorls sparse, short. Clypeus rounded triangular, prominent, dull 

 brown, nude. Eyes black. Occiput brown, with a few narrow, curved scales, 

 most of the vestiture of erect, forked ochraceous scales, a black spot on each 

 side, margins of eyes and cheeks yellowish white scaled; a row of short brown 

 hairs along margin of eyes, a short tuft of shining yellow ones projecting on the 

 vertex. 



Prothoracic lobes elliptical, remote dorsally, clothed ^vith hair-like pale- 

 yellow scales and numerous dark bristles. Mesonotum brown dorsally, shading 

 to testaceous on the sides, rather sparsely clothed with narrow, curved, pale- 

 golden scales, short pale bristles dorsally and longer ones on sides; anterior 



