ORTHOPODOMYIA SIGNIFER 887 



on each side of antescutellar space extending from base to well beyond middle ; 

 vestiture of rather coarse, narrow, curved golden-yellow scales, forming three 

 broad stripes on anterior part of disk and becoming fused before and about 

 antescutellar space ; a short stripe of golden scales over roots of wings ; lateral 

 margins and anterior angles with golden scales ; bristles long, coarse, abundant, 

 black with bronzy luster. Scutellum trilobate, with a patch of very narrow 

 pale golden scales on mid lobe, each lobe with a group of coarse brown 

 bristles. Postnotum elliptical, prominent, dark brown, slightly pruinose, nude. 

 Pleurae luteous brown spotted with black, with patches of large elliptical 

 creamy- white scales and rows of brown bristles ; coxas similar, without the black 

 markings. 



Abdomen subcylindrical, blunt at tip ; dorsal vestiture of black scales, laterally 

 with large, subquadrate, basal segmental white spots ; first segment black scaled, 

 with many fine, long pale hairs ; venter yellowish scaled, with broad apical 

 segmental black bands ; apices of segments with coarse yellow hairs. 



"Wings rather broad, hyaline; petiole of second marginal cell two-fifths the 

 length of cell, that of second posterior shorter than its cell; basal cross-vein 

 more than its own length distant from anterior cross-vein; scales of veins 

 brownish-black, large, broad and dense, covering most of the membrane, the 

 outstanding ones broad, obliquely subtruncate, more or less overlapping. 



Legs rather long, moderately slender; vestiture black with white rings; 

 femora with a white ring at apical third ; knees white-scaled ; fore tibiae with a 

 white spot before apical third; mid and hind tibiae with a white ring before 

 apical third; tips of tibiae broadly white; front and mid tarsi narrowly white 

 marked at bases and apices of first and second joints, third and fourth joints 

 marked at base only, fifth entirely black-scaled ; hind tarsi more broadly white 

 ringed on both ends of all the joints but the last, which is narrowly white at base 

 only. Claw formula, 0.0-0.0-0.0. 



Length : Body about 3.5 mm. ; wing 3.2 mm. 



Life history and habits unknown. 



Cuba. 



San Antonio de los Bancs (J. H. Pazos). 



Only the single type specimen has been collected. 



ORTHOPODOMYIA SIGNIFER (Coquillett). 



Culex signifer Coquillett, Can. Ent., xxviii, 43, 1896. 



Culex signifer Giles, Handb. Gnats or Mosq., 268, 1900. 



Culex signifer Coquillett, U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Ent., Circ. 40, 6, 1900. 



Culex signifer Howard, U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Ent, Bull. 25, n. s., 20, 1900. 



Stegomyia signifer Theobald, Mon. Culic, i, 322, 1901. 



Stegomyia signifer Howard, Mosquitoes, 155, 1901. 



Stegomyia signifera Howard, Mosquitoes, 236, 1901. 



Stegomyia signifera Smith, Ent. News, xili, 299, pi. xiii, f. 1, 1902. 



Stegomyia (?) signifer Giles, Handb. Gnats or Mosq., 2 ed., 379, 1902. 



Culex signifer Dyar, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xi, 26, 1903. 



Stegomyia signifer Theobald, Journ. Trop. Med., vi, 238, 1903. 



Culex signifer Smith, N. J, Agr. Exp. Sta., Bull. 171, 38, 1904. 



Culex signifer Smith, N. J. Agr. Exp. Sta., Rept. Mosq., 255, 1905. 



Stegomyia signifer Felt, Bull. 79, N. Y. State Mus., 338, 391d, 1904. 



Stegomyia signifera Blanchard, Les Moustiques, 258, 1905. 



Pneumaculex signifer Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vii, 46, 1905. 



Pneumaculex signifer Dyar, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xiii, 54, 108, 1905. 



Pneumaculex signifer Felt, Bull. 97, N. Y. State Mus., 490, 1905. 



Culex (?) signifer Ludlow, Med. Record, N. Y., Ixix, 97, 1906. 



Mansonia signifer Dyar & Knab, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xiv, 185, 1906. 



Pneumaculex signifer Coquillett, U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., Tech. Ser. No. 11, 26, 



1906. 

 Pneumaculex signifer Dyar, U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., Giro. 72, 3, 1906. 

 Mansonia signifer Knab, Ent. News, xviii, 153, 1907. 

 Mansonia signifer Dyar, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxxii, 128, 1907. 



