INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 127 



Diphalangarpe abascanta Dyar & Knab 



Ti'ycoHiyia abascanta Dyar & Knab, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxxv, 



65, 1908. 

 l-Fyeomyia abascanta Howard, Dyar & Knab, Mosq. No. & Cent. 



Am. & W. I., ii, plate 4, fig. 19, 1912. 



A distinct genus seems warranted for this species, as the 

 genitalia are figured with two finger-shaped processes on top 

 of the harpes. Unfortunately the single slide is lost and there 

 is no second male at hand to mount. The larvae were found in 

 a terrestrial Bromeliad resembling a Century plant in Trinidad. 



Genus WYEOMYIA Theobald 

 IVyeomyia Theobald, Mon. Culic, ii, 267, 1901. 



Type species: IVyeomyia grayii Theobald (Mon. Culic, ii, 

 269, 1901). 



The type species is unknown to me. It comes from the 

 island of Santa Lucia, whence I have no material. I am as- 

 suming it to have dark prothoracic lobes and to be allied to 

 fallax Bonne-Wepster & Bonne and abia Dyar & Knab. IVyeo- 

 myia, as here defined, may be considered to be founded on 

 leiicopisthcpits Dyar & Knab. 



TABLE OF SPECIES 



(Coloration) 



1. Prothoracic lobes blue 2 



Prothoracic lobes darkly colored like the mesonotum 3 



2. Mid tarsi white-marked ; hind usually white spotted 



MiTCHELUi Theobald 

 Tarsi all dark melanopus Dyar 



3. Prothoracic lobes with a distinct white tip 4 



Without this character 11 



4. Eyes with a white-scaled margin 5 



Without this character 10 



5. Female with mid and hind tarsi white-marked (male the same) 6 



Female with the mid tarsi only white-marked 7 



Female with the hind tarsi only white-marked & 



Female with the tarsi all dark 9 



6. The white marks restricted ; mid tarsi with no white on sec- 



ond joint labesba Howard, Dyar & Knab 



White marks less restricted ; mid tarsi with the apex of sec- 

 ond joint white ablabes Dyar & Knab 



