352 GNATS Oil MOSQUITOES — CHAPTER XIII 



usuiilly nearer the base of the wing than that of the first sub-marginal 

 cell. Legs usually more or less mottled and banded with white ; luigues 

 of the $ equal and simple, of the $ unequal, the larger one toothed, the 

 smaller, simple (in P. titillans, Walker). 



Table of Species of PANOPLITES. 



A. Thorax unspotted, and tlie femora not 



prominently banded. 

 Thorax uniformly dark brown, palpi 



and proboscis dark, the latter with 



a trace of banding 1. <^^i^?ans, "Walker. 



Thox-ax reddish-brown, with two 



median pale lines, small pale 



golden scales in the middle and 



round the front, abdomen with 



yellow apical bands 2. pseuclotitillans, Theob. 



Thorax chestnut-brown in the 



middle, paler at the sides, legs 



mottled and banded 3. uniformis, Theoh. 



Thorax dark brown, the front two- 

 thirds of the mesonotum golden- 

 brown scaled, tarsi banded white 4. Aniazonensis, Theob. 

 Thorax golden-brown, abdomen 



unhanded, tarsi broadly basally 



light banded, proboscis not very 



obviously banded but dark at tip 5. Australiensis, Theob. 

 AA. Thorax spotted, and the femora elabo- 

 rately banded or spotted. 

 Legs all banded and mottled ; 



yellowish-brown ; wings with the 



posterior border with broad border 



scales 6. annulifera, Walker. 



Blackish-brown ; wings with the 



border scales narrow 7. dives, Schiner. 



AAA. Thorax ornamented with broad lines of 



golden-brown and silvery scales 



and two pale indistinct spots ... 8. Africanus, Theob. 



1. PANOPLITES TITILLANS, Walker. 



= TcBniorhynchus ta'niorhijnchtis, Arribi'ilzaga, = Culcx damnostis, Say. 

 (Brit. Mus. List. p. 3 [= Culex titillans], Walker; Jour. Acad. Phil, iii, 11. 

 3 [1882] [= Culcx damnosiis], Say; Dipt. Argentina, p. 48 [Arribiilzaga] 

 [= T. tccniorhynchus'].) 



Plate xiii, fig. 4a, Venation of $ wing ; 4b, Leptotaxis of whig vem ; 

 4c, outline figures of <? and J palpi (after Monog.). 



Wing brindled with dark brown and yellowish scales, the 

 latter somewhat preponderating, except along the costa; the short 



