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teen additional rare species were found only at Almirante : almirantei, 

 azureus, commatus, covagarciai, daedalus, lyrinotatus, marshi, meta- 

 gonatus, mirsae, pampoikilus, phaeonotus, rangeli, scopiis, and trans- 

 ferrans. only six rare species were found at Mojinga only: alahmlinus, 

 carpenteri, guyanensis, imitator, limai, and siigmalis. 



Table 1. — Approximate maximum numbers of specimens of Culicoides collected 

 per trap night in light traps in humid and arid areas of Panama 



From the lists given in the preceding paragraph the following 

 ten tidal salt marsh species have been eliminated although they 

 were occasionally recorded from some of the localities: arubae, 

 barbosai,Jurens, gorgasi, iriartei, phlebotomus, reticulatus, trinidadensis, 

 vnllistoni, and wokei. These species have never been recorded from 

 inland localities, and their abundance at typical salt marsh localities 

 is confirmed by the list of species taken in such habitats given in 

 table 2. 



Our lists of species characteristic of the higher elevations are 

 doubtless incomplete owing to our small number of collections from 



