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Type, female. Xo. 219!):). U. S. Nat. Miis.; Riipiiniini. Brit- 

 ish Guiana (K. S. Wise). 



Lesticocampa moralesi, new species. 



Female. Palpi about one-third the length of the proboscis, 

 equal in length to four joints of the antennas, black-scaled. 

 Abdomen black above, pale golden yellow below, the pale color 

 projecting upward roundedly on the posterior end of each seg- 

 ment. Legs dark brown scaled with blue and bronzy reflec- 

 tions ; a white spot at tip of hind tibia ; hind femur with an 

 irregularly shaped white ring at outer third. Wing scales 

 broadly ovate, blackish ; cross-veins nearly in line. 



Types, two females, No. 21997, U. S. Nat. Mus.; San 

 Felipe, Departmento Retalhuleu, Guatemala, and Finca San 

 Basilio, Departmento Solola, Guatemala, 1.200 feet (Dr. Mor- 

 ales). 



The species is closely allied to Hyloconops longipalpis Theo- 

 bald, but the palpi are shorter. 



Culex bonneae, new species. 



Probiscis and palpi black, unmarked, the pa^pi of the female 

 short, those of the male exceeding the proboscis by nearly the 

 length of the last two joints, which are slender and sparsely 

 hairy. Head with narrow curved pale brown scales on the 

 vertex and broader pale ones on the sides ; many erect forked 

 black ones on the nape. Integument of mesonotum brown, 

 pale on the lateral angles and antescutellar space, clothed with 

 narrow curved pale brown scales, without special pattern and 

 sparse black bristles ; pleurae pale, with fine pale bristles. 

 Abdomen normal, slender, the tip truncate, clothed dorsally 

 with black scales, the tips of the segments with pale bristles; 

 lateral spots whitish, triangular, basal, increasing in size pos- 

 teriorly, scarcely visible from above ; venter entirely sordid 

 whitish scaled. Legs blackish brown scaled, the femora broad- 

 ly whitish at base below and narrowly so nearly to the tips ; 

 tips of femora and tibiae pale ; tarsi entirely blackish. Wings 

 hyaline, the outstanding scales narrowly ligulate. Length of 

 female, 4.o mm. ; of male, 4 mm. 



