gO PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. yol. xxxv. 



men depressed, truncate at tip, clothed above with dark scales, with 

 distinct coppery luster, the bases of the segments with lateral trian- 

 gular silvery white spots; venter dull whitish-scaled, unhanded; 

 wings with the scales along the veins dusky, long and very narrow ; 

 legs dark-scaled, with bronzy luster, the underside of the femora pale- 

 scaled ; tarsi not ringed; claws simple. Length, 4 mm. 



Male. — Palpi long and slender, very slightly longer than the pro- 

 boscis, dark-scaled, with bronzy luster and without annulations; head 

 and mesothorax colored as in the female; abdomen long and slender, 

 dark-scaled above, with coppery luster, the segments with basal sil- 

 very white lateral spots ; venter pale-scaled. Length, 3 mm. 



Thirty-nine specimens, Cordoba, Mexico, bred from larvae in water 

 in a hollow tree. (F. Knab.) 



Type.— Cat. No. 11969, U.S.N.M. 



CULEX STENOLEPIS, new species. 



Female. — Proboscis rather long and slender, black-scaled, labellae 

 pale-scaled; palpi entirely black-scaled; occiput clothed with pale 

 brownish scales, with brassy bister, the margin of the eyes narrowly 

 white-scaled, broadened into a patch at the sides, numerous erect 

 forked scales particularly basally; mesonotum deep brown-scaled, 

 with bronzy luster and mottled with patches of brassy scales; these 

 scales are most conspicuous along the margins and form two oblique 

 subdorsal bars; anteriorly they form a dorsal patch and are also 

 abundant around the antescutellar bare space and the bases of the 

 wings; scutellum covered with brassy scales; abdomen depressed, 

 truncate at the tip, dull black-scaled above, with narrow white basal 

 segmental bands; beneath the basal bands occupy about half of each 

 segment ; wings with the veins clothed with brownish long and very 

 narrow scales; legs black; femora white-scaled beneath except the 

 apical portion; knees white-scaled; tibiae with their apices pale-scaled, 

 a line of pale scales along their inner surfaces; tarsi of all the legs 

 white-ringed at base and apex of each joint, the front legs very nar- 

 rowly so, on the hind legs very broadly; last tarsal joint of the hind 

 legs entirely white-sealed; claws simple. Length, 3.5 mm. 



Male. — Proboscis long, rather slender, black-scaled, with a white 

 ring around the middle, the labellae pale-scaled ; palpi long, exceeding 

 the proboscis, slender, clothed with black scales, narrowly annulated 

 with white, the apical half covered with long black hairs; head and 

 thorax marked as in the female; abdomen deep black-scaled above, 

 without luster, the basal segmental white bands much broader than 

 in the female; legs marked as in the female. Length, 4 mm. 



Forty-seven specimens, Cordoba, Mexico, bred from larvae in water 

 between the leaves of bromeliaceous plants. (F. Knab.) 



Type.— Cat. No. 11970, U.S.N.M. 



