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are crepuscular in habit. The female is said to be very blood-thirsty and to 

 enter houses. Its bite is reported painful. 



Tropical America, from southern Mexico to Argentina, Island of Trinidad, 

 but not the Antilles proper. 



Polochic Eiver, Guatemala, March 22, April 19, 1906 (Schwarz & Barber) ; 

 Cacao, Trece Aguas, Alta Vera Paz, Guatemala, April 19, 1906 (Schwarz & 

 Barber) ; Bluefields, Nicaragua (W. F. Thornton) ; Colon, Panama, May 21, 

 1904 (A. C. H. Eussell) ; Bocas del Toro, Panama (McKenny) ; Panama City, 

 Panama, April 18, 1904 (J. W. Boss) ; Caldera Island, Porto Bello Bay, 

 Panama, February 16, 1909 (A. H. Jennings) ; Gatun, Canal Zone, Panama 

 (A. H. Jennings) ; Pequini River, Panama (A. H. Jennings) ; Trinidad, 

 British West Indies, June, 1905 (A. Busck) ; Schepmoed, British Guiana, 

 January 29, 1906 (E. D. Rowland) ; Berbice, British Guiana, March, 1907 (J. 

 Aiken) ; Stanley Town, British Guiana, September 13, 1905 (E. D. Rowland) ; 

 Rupununi, British Guiana (K. S. Wise) ; Sao Paulo, Brazil (A. Lutz). 



Also reported from Vera Cruz, Mexico (Parker, Beyer & Pothier) ; Cedros, 

 Trinidad (Theobald) ; city of Rio de Janeiro ; State of Amazonas ; cities of Para, 

 Obidos, Prainha, ArroyoUos, Oyapoc and Amapa, all in the State of Para ; States 

 of Pernambuco and Bahia; cities of Juiz de Fora, Oliveira, Cysneiros, Tartaria, 

 Lavras and Barbacena, shores of the river Velhas, all in the State of Minas 

 Geraes ; city of Santos and in the valley of the Parahyba, State of Sao Paulo ; 

 Ladario, State of Matto Grosso, Brazil (Peryassu) ; Navarro, Province of 

 Buenos Ay res, Argentina (Arribalzaga), 



MANSONIA COTICULA (Dyar & Knab) Dyar & Knab. 



Twniorhynchus coticula Dyar & Knab, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xv, 101, 1907. 

 Tceniorhynchus coticula Busck, Smiths. Misc. Colls., quart, iss., lii, 62, 1908. 

 Mansonia coticula Dyar & Knab, Ent. News, xxi, 264, 1910. 

 Tceniorhynchus corticula Theobald, Mon. Culic, v, 618, 1910. 



Original Description of T^niorhynchus coticula : 



Proboscis brown, blackish outwardly, a white ring in the middle, the tip also 

 white; palpi black, whitish at the end; thorax light brown, the impressed lines pale, 

 the ridges dark, forming a series of narrow dark lines; abdomen black above with a 

 slight bluish luster, unhanded, below with a sublateral row of small segmentary 

 silvery spots; legs black, the hind femur with a spot at outer third and tip of bluish 

 silvery white, the hind tarsal joints broadly white ringed at the base, the last joint 

 all white. 



Two $$, Bocas del Toro, Panama, Sept. 25, 1903 (P. Osterhaut). 



Type. Cat. No. 10281, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Description of Female of Mansonia coticula (Male and Larva Unknown) : 



Female. Proboscis uniform, rather long, labellas conically tapered; clothed 

 with black scales, a narrow ring of white ones near middle and a still smaller 

 one at base of labellas. Palpi about one-fifth as long as proboscis, rather straight, 

 black, tips broadly silvery white ; a number of long black bristles, longest towards 

 base. Antenna with tori globose, yellowish brown; succeeding segments sub- 

 equal, blackish, sparsely ciliate, the whorls with rather few long black hairs. 

 Clypeus broad, rounded, subtruncate, nude, dark brown. Eyes black. Occiput 

 brown, clothed with narrow, curved blackish scales, a small tuft at vertex and 

 margins of eyes narrowly silver-scaled ; numerous long, erect, forked black scales 

 on the vertex and a few long bristles bordering the eyes. 



Prothoracic lobes moderate, well separated, brown, with some silvery scales 

 and a few black bristles. Mesonotum ferruginous brown, with two somewhat 

 impressed bare lines and a large, elongate bare space above base of wings, leav- 

 ing three darker longitudinal dorsal stripes which are sparsely clothed with 

 small, narrow, curved, deep bronzy-brown scales, a very small patch of narrow. 



