14 INSECUTOR INSCITI^ M^NSTRUUS 



This species seemed to come near to Lesticocampa moralesi 

 Dyar and Knab, but this was described with the ring on the 

 hind femur. This could be an error of observation of course, 

 so we wrote to Washington and Mr. C. T. Greene, of the 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., kindly informed us, that the ring in moralesi 

 is present on the tibia and not on the femur. We consider this 

 specimen now identical with Lesticocampa moralesi Dyar and 

 Knab. 



Theobald's description of Hyloconops longipalpis does not 

 say anything about a white ring and is evidently based on the 

 two other specimens. Surcouf and Gonzales-Rincones (Essai 

 Dipt. Vuln. Venez.), however, mention the ring and they have 

 their information from Peryassu (Os Culicideos do Brazil), 

 who saw Lutz specimens, which probably belonged to two 

 species. The name longipalpis was given by Lutz, but without 

 a description. We retain the name for the species with un- 

 handed hind tibise on which Theobald's description of longi- 

 palpis was based. 



A few amendments can be made in Theobald's description 

 of longipalpis. Palpi of the female one-fourth of the proboscis. 

 Hardly any scales on the basal prolongation of the third vein. 

 In the female peacock colored scales only on the scutellum, in 

 the male on scutellum and also before the scutellum on the 

 mesonotum. Basal cross vein half its length basally distant 

 from anterior cross vein. 



Longipalpis is more brilliantly violet than moralesi Dyar and 

 Knab. The female palpi are shorter, the scutellum has other 

 scales ; the abdominal colors are deeply incised. 



The male palpi of longipalpis are as long as the proboscis. 

 The clypeus is nude, the postnotum has no scales. 



Longipalpis differs from lunata by the shortness of the 

 'proboscis, which is shorter than the abdomen and absolutely 

 different from the proboscis of lunata and by the presence of 

 the peacock scales, and the male palpi are longer. Lestico- 

 campa rapax Dyar and Knab also has a long proboscis like 

 lunata, and the stem of the second marginal cell is one-half of 

 its cell and not one-fourth as in longipalpis. 



