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6. Side-pieces stout and conical L. rapax Dyar & Knab (p. 165) 



Side-pieces more slender and elongate 



L. lampropua Howard, Dyar & Knab (p. 168) 



7. Harpes and harpagones prominently exserted. L. culicivora Dyar & Knab (p. 170) 

 Harpes and harpagones not exserted L. longipes Fabricius (p. 173) 



The following species are not included, as we have no males : Lesticocampa 

 schedocyclia Dyar & Knab, Joblotia mogUasia Dyar & Knab. 



LAEV-«!. 



1. Mandibles visible from above; lateral comb of the eighth abdominal segment 



of about seventeen spines in a patch rapax Dyar & Knab (p. 165) 



Mandibles not visible from above 2 



2. Lateral comb of 4 scales culicivora Dyar & Knab (p. 170) 



Lateral comb of many scales in a long line 



dicellaphora Howard, Dyar & Knab (p. 167) 



The following species are not included, their larvas being undiscovered: 

 schedocyclia Dyar & Knab, leucopus Dyar & Blnab, longipes Fabricius, lam- 

 propus Howard, Dyar & Knab. 



LESTICOCAMPA RAPAX Dyar & Knab. 

 Lesticocampa lunata Dyar & Knab (not Theobald), Joum. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xiv, 



226, 1906. 

 Lesticocampa rapax Dyar & Knab, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xlx, 137, 1906. 

 Lesticocampa rapax Theobald, Mon. Culic, v, 621, 1910. 



Obioutai, Descbiption of Lesticocampa bapax: 



(J; head clothed with dull violet scales behind, with a row of black erect forked 

 scales; thorax with dull brown scales with faint purple reflection; pleurae and coxae 

 silvery; abdomen dull steel blue, violaceous in certain light, the first segment with 

 brighter blue scales, 8th with bright violet scales, golden at the sides; venter golden; 

 last segment bright violet blue with numerous bristles below. Legs entirely violet 

 blue. Palpi longer than the antennae, upeurved. 



2; similar to the male, palpi short, as long as four joints of the antennae. 



1 £?, Trinidad, B. W. I. (P. W. Urich), bred from larvae described as Lesticocampa 

 lunata Theob. (Dyar & Knab, Joum. N. ¥. ent. soc, xiv, 226, 1906) ; 3 $, Sao Paulo, 

 Brazil (A. Lutz) ; Patulue, Guatemala (D. G. Bisen). 



Type.—Ca.t. No. 9981, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Descbiption of Male and Laeva of Lesticocampa bapax (Female Unknown) : 



Male. — Proboscis long, slender, labeUs rounded, with minute outstanding 

 setae ; vestiture black. Palpi long and slender, slightly shorter than proboscis, 

 uniform black, with a violet and bronzy reflection, a few outstanding setae on 

 last two joints and tip of the long joint. Antennae long, pilose, black, the last 

 two jointe long and slender, the others shorter, about four times as long as wide, 

 thickened medially, dark with pale basal rings; tori subspherical, with a cup- 

 shaped apical excavation, luteous, shaded with blackish; hairs of whorls long, 

 moderately abundant, black. Clypeus broad, rounded, blackish brown, nude, 

 with a slight pruinosity. Eyes black, contiguous at the vertex. Occiput smoothly 

 clothed with flat appressed scales, black with metallic-blue reflection, silvery 

 in some lights, a row of erect, forked black scales along the posterior margin, 

 two long bristles at vertex, a row of setae along margins of eyes. 



Prothoracic lobes rather large, elliptical, remote dorsally, luteous, sparsely 

 clothed with small silvery scales, a row of setae along anterior margin; meso- 

 notum brown, densely clothed with narrow scales, grayish brown, with a sub- 

 metallic purplish reflection, a row of bristles around edges of disk and about the 

 ante-seutellar space; scutellum trilobate, vestiture of broad, flat, shining, pale 

 metallic-blue scales, each lobe with a tuft of black bristles. Postnotum elliptical, 

 prominent, luteous brown, with a tuft of small setas posteriorly. Pleurae luteous,' 

 brownish shaded, coxae luteous, clothed with patches of silvery-white scales. 



Abdomen subcylindrical, dorsal vestiture black with a blue and violet metallic 

 reflection ; venter golden yellow, the colors separated on the sides in a segmentary 

 angulated line, a black shade along mid-ventral line ; claspers black. 



