SABETHES 23 



MALE GBNITAUA. 



1. Clasp-fllament simple i f o6Jo«<» Blanchard (p 175) 



I Lesticocampa Dyar & Knab (p. 162) 



f' W^eomj/ia Theobald (p. 49) 

 L'imatus Theobald (p. 40) 

 Babethmus Lutz (p. 31) 

 Sabethes Robineau-Desvoidy (p. 23) 



The following genera are not included, as we possess no males : Sdbethoides 

 Theobald, Prosopolepis Lutz. 



LABV^. 



1. Lateral comb present on eighth segment 2 



No lateral comb on eighth segment Joblotia Blanchard (p. 175) 



2. Air-tube spicular; maxillae heavily armed 3 



Air-tube smooth; maxill. without heavy armature. {^S'Safd^V 40?'^ 



3. Head normal, the mouth-parts not visible from above. . . Sabethinus Lutz (p. 31) 

 Head with the mandibles and maxillse greatly developed 



Lesticocampa Dyar & Knab (p. 162) 



The following genera are not included, the larvae being imknown : Sabethes 

 Eobineau-Desvoidy, Sdbethoides Theobald, and Prosopolepis Lutz, 



Genus SABETHES Kobiueau-Desvoidy. 

 Sabethes Robineau-Desvoidy, M6m. Soc. d'hist. nat. Paris, iii, 411, 1827. 

 Sabettus Scudder, Bull. 19, U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 297, 1882. 

 Sabethes Lynch Arribaizaga, Rev. del Mus. de La Plata, i, 373, 1891. 

 Sabethes Giles (in part). Gnats or Mosq., 183, 1900. 

 Sabethes Theobald, Journ. Trop. Med., iv, 235, 1901. (Without species.) 

 Sabethes Theobald (in part), Mon. Culic, i, 247, 1901. 

 Sabethes Theobald (in part), Mon. Culic, ii, 345, 1901. 

 Sabethes Giles, Gnats or Mosq., 2 ed., 475, 1902. 



Sabethes Neveu-Lemaire, Compt. Rend. Soc. Biol. Paris, liv, 1331, 1902. 

 Sabethes Neveu-Lemaire, M6m. Soc. Zool. France, xv, 225, 1902. 

 Sabethes Theobald, Mon. Culic, iii, 321, 1903. 

 Sabethes Lutz in Bourroul, Mosq. do Brasll, 56, 1904. 

 Sabethes Lahille, Class, des moust, 18, 1904. 

 Sabettus Blanchard, Les Moustiques, 420, 1905. 

 Sabethes Theobald, Gen. Ins., Culic, 39, 1905. 



Sabethes Coquillett, U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., Tech. Ser. 11, 28, 1906. 

 Sabethes Dyar & Knab (in part). Can. Ent., xxxix, 49, 1907. 

 Sabethes Theobald, Mon. Culicid., Iv, 594, 1907. 

 Sabethes Peryassli, Os Culic. do Brazil, 38, 1908. 

 Sabethes Williston (in part). No. Amer. Dipt., 3 ed., 108, 1908. 

 Sabethes Pazos, San. y Ben., ii, 41, 1909. 

 Sabetes Pazos (in part), San. y Ben., ii, 44, 1909. 

 Sabethes Theobald, Mon. Culic, v, 574, 1910. 



The type species are : of Sabethes Eobineau-Desvoidy, type Sabethes locuples 

 Eobineau-Desvoidy; of Sabettus Scudder, type Sabethes locuples Eobineau- 

 Desvoidy. 

 Generic Diagnosis of Adult: 



Head moderate; proboscis rather short, swollen at apex; palpi short in both sexes; 

 eyes large, contiguous at vertex; antennae with the joints subequal, similar in the 

 sexes, sparsely plumose, each joint with a whorl of long hairs near base and a small 

 one near apex. Prothoracic lobes large, contiguous dorsally. Vestiture of flat ap- 

 pressed scales, without setae on the disk of the mesonotum. Abdomen of female sub- 

 cylindrical, blunt at tip, laterally compressed. Legs long and slender, the mid 

 femora longer than the front or hind ones, with large projecting, flattened scale-tufts, 

 most developed on the middle legs. Wings rather narrow, the cross-veins tending to 

 lie in line, or the basal one beyond the anterior, but subject to variation. Claws of 

 female small, equal, and simple. Male with claws on the middle legs subequal, one 

 of them expanded and serrated at the broad apex. Male genitalia with the clasp 

 filament greatly modified. 



The life histories and the larvae are entirely unknown. 



