PSOROPHORA CILIPES 539 



OEIGINAL DeSCBIPTION of CuLEX CILIPES : 



cilipes. 3. C. fuscus abdomine pallido. palpis haustello longioribus hirtis. 



Habitat in America meridionall Dom. Smidt. Mus. Dom. de Sehestedt. 



Paullo major C. pipiente. Caput flavescens, antennis longitudine haustelli 

 utrinque valde pectinatis. Palpi quadriarticulati, hirti, haustello 

 longiores. Thorax gibbus, fuscus, immaculatus. Abdomen cylindri- 

 cum, pallidum. Pedes elongati. 



Original Description of Sabethes scintiixans: 



Mas. Nigra, iridescens, argenteo mieans, antennis subalbis, pedibus pilosis, alis 

 subfuscis. 



Body black, hairy, with iridescent and silvery reflections: feelers about half the 

 length of the body, dull white, adorned with whorls of long dark reddish-brown 

 hairs, and clothed towards their tips with short down: palpi nearly as long as the 

 body, brown; the two last joints black and hairy: a large silvery spot on each side 

 of the chest: mouth as long as the feelers: legs very thickly clothed with hairs, ex- 

 cepting the fore-legs and the shanks and feet of the middle legs, where the hairs are 

 short and more thin: wings slightly tinged with brown, fringed; veins brown; 

 poisers dull red, with black tips. Length of the body 3 lines; of the wings 6 lines. 



a. Para. Presented by Mrs. J. P. G. Smith. 



Original Description of Psoeophora iracunda: 



Black with metallic blue luster, the legs with abundant outstanding scales, long 

 and squammose. Posterior femora slightly grayish at tip. Wings smoky clouded. 

 5 specimens, Puntarenas, Costa Rica (P. Knab). 

 Type.CSit. No. 9965, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Description of Female, Male, and Larva of Psoeophora cilipes: 



Female. Proboscis subcylindrical, moderate, uniform, the labellge conicaJly 

 tapered; vestiture of black scales with metallic blue and iridescent luster, 

 roughened ventrally especially towards the base. Palpi over two-fifths as long 

 as the proboscis, clothed with black scales which have a dark-blue reflection in 

 certain lights and a few iridescent and metallic blue scales intermixed; setae 

 rather numerous, a few of those towards base longer than those on proboscis. 

 Antenna slender ; tori subspherical, dark brown, with a few minute setae within, 

 succeeding joints blackish, pilose ; hairs of whorls sparse, black. Clypeus promi- 

 nent, subglobose, truncate at base, excavate on either side of middle, tip rounded, 

 nude, shining blackish. Eyes black. Occiput broad and exposed, blackish, 

 sparsely covered with broad, white curved scales and numerous rather short 

 black bristles, which are somewhat more numerous at vertex but nearly evenly 

 distributed over occiput. 



Prothoracic lobes moderate, blackish brown, with many black setae. Meso- 

 notum prominent in front, arcuate, shining, black; a narrow, median, longi- 

 tudinal line extending to ante-scutellar space densely clothed with small black 

 scales and small brown-tipped setae ; on either side of this a broad convex bare 

 space showing the shining, nearly black integument, a narrow straight line 

 of small black scales defining outer edge of bare stripes ; lateral area, except on 

 front angles, entirely covered, although sparsely, with broad, curved pearly- 

 white scales ; ante-scutellar space surrounded by white scales ; a broad bare stripe 

 on each side of ante-scutellar space; laterally a number of brown-tipped setae 

 which become very numerous at roots of wings. Scutellum trilobate, blackish, 

 with white scales, each lobe with a large group of black hairs, middle lobe with 

 about thirty. Postnotum elliptical, convex, prominent, nude, dark brown. 

 Pleurae and coxae blackish brown, with numerous short bristles and covered 

 rather densely with flat white scales. 



Abdomen subcylindrical, somewhat flattened, last segments tapering ; clothed 

 dorsally with black scales with bright metallic-blue luster; rather numerous 

 bristles apically and laterally ; a series of large lateral patches of white scales on 

 posterior edges of segments; first segment with metallic blue scales and many 



