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be barely perceptible, but all the other joints of the hmd, the next three 

 of the mid, and the next two of the fore legs show fairly distinct bands. 

 The last two joints of the mid tarsi are much paler than tlie other feet. 

 Length. — 4'3 to 5 mm. 



Habitat. — Lower Amazon, taken in January. 



4a. PANOPLITES, Sp., resembling C. {Ochlerotatus) confirmatus, 



Arribal. 



1 received from Dr. Lutz, along with specimens of the above- 

 mentioned species, a form much resembling P. Amazonensis, but 

 certainly distinct. It is in too rubbed a condition for descrip- 

 tion, and all that can be said at present is that it so resembles 

 Arribalzaga's species that the two are practically indistinguish- 

 able until the wing is placed beneath the microscope. I figure, 

 however, the peculiarities of the wing with the view to its early 

 recognition and the collection of further material (Plate xiii, 

 fig. 5a, Venation of wing ; 5b, Leptotaxis of wing vein ; 5c, 

 Ungues (? ). 



It will be seen that the long scales associated with the 

 characteristic bracket-shaped scales are exactly like those of 

 the Tceniorhynchi, so that the species may in a certain sense 

 be said to be intermediate in character. 



5. PANOPLITES AUSTRALIENSIS, Theob. (MS. name). 



Wings unspotted but brindled with dark and light scales, the 

 latter greatly preponderating; the dark ones, however, are 

 numerous on the costa, but the inner rank of fringe scales are all 

 white. Thorax with the raesonotum and scutellum testaceous, 

 thickly beset with golden-yellow narrow curved scales and long 

 bristles. Abdomen deep purple-brown with a large triangular 

 patch of ferruginous scales on the terga of the first two segments, 

 extended as an ill-defined lighter line to the apical segments, the 

 last two of which are mainly dark ferruginous. Legs with the 

 femora and tibite obscurely banded with dark brown and ferru- 

 ginous scales ; the tarsi are all wanting in the single, much 

 mutilated type, except those of the fore legs, which have a narrow 

 basal band to the first and very broad yellow ones to the next 

 three joints. 



$ . — Head nearly black, covered throughout with golden forked and 

 narrow curved scales ; palpi rather pale golden, with a few scattered 

 brown scales, especially numerous at the base, and a small tuft of white 

 ones at the tip, less than one-third the length of the proboscis, which is 



