GENUS WYEOMYIA 497 



1. WYEOMYIA LONGIROSTRIS, Theobald (Monog. II, p. 275). 



Thorax black, shiny when denuded, covered with dusky and 

 bronzy scales ; prothoracic lobes with broad scales, showing 

 metallic reflections ; metanotum intense black, with two clear 

 golden-brown bristles near the posterior border (and two smaller 

 ones ?) ; pleurae testaceous and browo. Abdomen black, with 

 lateral basal white patches ; venter pale scaled. Legs dark 

 brown, long ; coxae ochreous. Ungues of the ? , equal, simple. 



5 . — Head black, with flat black scales, showing metallic -green and 

 purple reflections ; sides of the head with similar grey scales ; two long 

 black bristles project in front between the eyes, and other shorter ones 

 on each side ; proboscis very long, much longer than the whole body, 

 sometimes nearly as long again, thin, covered with dark brown to black 

 scales, hairy at the apex ; antennae deep brown, less than one-third the 

 length of the proboscis ; palpi very short, covered with deep purplish- 

 black scales, somewhat testaceous at the base, apparently four-jointed, 

 the last joint being vevy small ; clypeus deep purphsh -black. Length. — 

 3*5 to 4 mm. 



Habitat. — Rio de Janeiro. 



2. WYEOMYIA TRINIDADENSIS, Theobald (Monog. II, p. 277). 



Thorax deep brown, with bronzy scales. Abdomen black, 

 with metallic-green reflections, and with basal white lateral spots, 

 which often pass into basal bands ; venter white scaled. Legs 

 long, black, the mid tarsi white above. Ungues small, equal, 

 simple. Proboscis as long as, or longer than, the whole insect. 



5 . — Head covered with flat brown scales with metallic-violet and 

 sometimes green reflections, sides with rather grey scales ; around the eyes 

 are short black bristles projecting over, and two between them ; antennae 

 rather short, black, with paler basal joints ; palpi very short, covered 

 with purplish-hrown scales ; clypeus brown, with grey sheen ; proboscis 

 thin, as long as, or longer than, the whole insect, deep brown. Length. — 

 2-8 mm. 



Habitat. — Trinidad. 



3. WYEOMYIA DISCRUCIANS (Walker). 



{= Culex cliscrucians, Walker, Ins. Saunders, p. 360, nee. J. discrucians, 



Arribalzaga.) 



Thorax brown and ferruginous, with brown flat spindle- 

 shaped scales ; pleurae pale, with pale golden sheen ; metanotum 

 with four chaetae in a line. x^bdomen steely-brown, its seg- 

 ments with apical pale golden triangular lateral spots and 

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