Dec, 1907.] Dyar & Knab : Mosquitoes from Canal Zone. 207 



Three specimens, Tabernilla, Canal Zone, Panama (August Busck, 

 collector), bred from larvje in bamboo joints. The larva resembles 

 that oi Joblotia digitatiis Rondani (= iiivipes Theob.). 



Type. — No. 10848, U. S. National Museum. 



Lesticocampa culicivora, new species. 



9 . • — Proboscis long and slender ; palpi not as long as three joints of the 

 antenna, slender, black ; clypeus black, shining, nude ; occiput clothed with flat 

 deep blue scales ; prothoracic lobes large, prominent, well separated, with a few 

 silvery scales; mesothorax compressed, covered with steel-blue scales; scutellum 

 clothed with flat broad shining bright-blue scales ; metanotum deep brown, a group of 

 setae towards the apex ; abdomen long and slender, subcylindrical, the segments 

 somewhat constricted beneath, above clothed with steel-blue scales, beneath with 

 yellowish silvery ones with an undulate lateral margin ; wings long and narrow, 

 hyaline, the cross-veins nearly incident ; legs long and slender, the hind legs with 

 outstanding scales on the apical portion of the tibiae and particularly on the second 

 joint of the tarsi ; forming a short lateral fringe ; black with violet-blue reflection, 

 the tarsi of the middle legs with the apical half of the second and the succeeding 

 segments silvery white, of the hind legs with the last two joints white. Length, 5 mm. 



One specimen, Tabernilla, Canal Zone, Panama (August Busck, 

 collector), bred from larvae in flowers of Heliconia, associated with 

 s6me unbred long-tubed larvae, probably a species of Culex. 



Type. — No. 10849, U. S. National Museum. 



Sabethes canfieldi, new species. 



9. — Proboscis shorter than the body, strongly swollen at the apex, black; 

 clypeus prominent, smooth, shining black ; tori of the antennee black with a whitish 

 pubescence ; occiput clothed with flat dull metallic-green scales ; prothoracic lobes 

 approximated, clothed with brilliant blue and violet scales ; mesonotum clothed 

 with dark greenish scales ; scales of the scutellum metallic green and blue ; meta- 

 notum deep brown, with a number of long pale bristles; abdomen dark above, with 

 greenish-blue luster, silvery white beneath, separated on the sides in a perfectly 

 straight line ; legs long and slender, without raised scales, black, with light bronzy 

 reflections beneath in certain lights, the tarsi of the middle legs white on the second 

 to fifth joints, the white becoming obscure on the basal part of the second segment, 

 on the hind legs the last two joints white. Length, 3.5 mm. 



Twenty-three specimens. Lion Hill, Canal Zone, Panama (August 

 Busck, collector), all captured. 



Type. — No. 10850, U. S. National Museum. 



Named, at the suggestion of Mr. Busck, in honor of Dr. Herman 

 Canfield, Assistant Chief Sanitary Inspector of the Canal Zone. 



Sabethes identicus, new species. 



? . — Identical with Sabethes undosus Coq. ; we are unable to 

 demonstrate any differences whatever between the adults. 



