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terminal claw. Harpes prominent, with thickened inner margin and bent 

 spinose tip. Harpagones and unci forming basal cylinders, not prominent. 

 Basal appendages small, rather slender, with five or six long terminal setae. 



life history and habits unknown. 



East coast of Nicaragua to Panama. 



Bluefields, Nicaragua, adults captured (W. F. Thornton) ; Bocas del Toro, 

 Panama, September 25 and 38, 1903 (P. Osterhout). 



LESTICOCAMPA L0N6IPES (Fabiicius). 



Culex longipes Fabricius, Syst. Antliat., 34, 1805. 



Culex longipes Wiedemann, Dipt. Exot., 1, 36, 1821. 



Sabethes longipes Robineau-Desvoidy, MSm. Soc. d'Hist. Nat. Paris, HI, 412, 1827. 



Culex longipes Wiedemann, Aussereur. zwelfl. Ins., i, 7, 1828. 



Culex longipes Macquart, Hist. Nat. Ins., Dipt., 1, 36, 1834. 



Sabethes longipes Giles, Gnats or Mosq., 183, 1900. 



Lesticocampa ulopus Dyar & Knab, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xix, 137, 1906. 



Lesticocampa ulopus Busck, Smiths. Misc. Colls., quart, iss.. Hi, 75, 1908. 



Lesticocampa ulopus Theobald, Mon. Culic, v, 622, 1910. 



Obioinai. Dbsceiption of Cuiex lonoipes: 



longipes. — 2. C. ater cupro nitidulus, pedibus elongatls: tibiis posticis ciliatls. 

 Habitat In America merldionall Dom. Smldt. Mus. Dom. Lund. 

 Paullo major C. piplente. Haustellum exsertum, aplce parum incras- 

 satum. Antennae valde pectinatae. Thorax et abdomen atra, 

 parum cupro nitidula. Alae obscurae. Pedes elongati tibiis com- 

 pressis, ciliatls: tarsis apice parum albican tlbus. 



Obiqinai, Descbiption of Lesticxjcampa ulopus: 



Palpi of 2 as long as six joints of the antennae; mid and hind tarsi white at tip. 

 One specimen, Bluefields, Nicaragua (W. F. Thornton). 

 Type. — Cat. No. 10,004, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Descbiption op Female and Male of Lesticocampa longipes (Labva Unknown) : 



Female. — Proboscis long, slender, labellse long with minute outstanding setae ; 

 vestiture brownish black. Palpi short, one-sixth as long as proboscis, uniform 

 black, with a bronzy reflection, a few outstanding setae. Antennae slender, basal 

 joints about four times as long as wide, the terminal ones increasingly longer, 

 rugose, pilose, black; tori subsphericaJ, with a cup-shaped apical excavation, 

 luteous, shaded with blackish; hairs of whorls sparse, long, black. Clypeus 

 broad, rounded, blackish brown, nude, with a slight pruinosity. Eyes black, 

 contiguous at vertex. Occiput smoothly clothed with flat appressed scales, black 

 with metallic blue and silvery reflection, a row of erect, forked black scales along 

 posterior margin, a row of setae along margins of eyes, two coarse bristles at 

 vertex. 



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

 with small silvery scales, a row of setae along anterior margin. Mesonotum 

 brown, densely clothed with small elliptical scales, grayish brown, with a sub- 

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

 and ante-seutellar area. Scutellum trilobate, vestiture of broad, flat scales with 

 blue and green metallic reflection, each lobe with a tuft of black bristles. Post- 

 notum elliptical, prominent, brown, with a tuft of small setae posteriorly. 

 Pleurae dark brown in the middle, coxae luteous, clothed with patches of silveiy- 

 white scales. 



Abdomen subcylindrical, compressed, truncate apically, with terminal 

 bristles; dorsal vestiture black with a blue metallic reflection; venter golden 

 yellow, colors separated on sides in a line, deeply indented on fifth and sixth 

 segments, the last segment black beneath. 



Wings rather narrow, smoky ; petiole of second marginal cell less than half 

 as long as its cell, that of second posterior cell shorter than its cell ; basal cross- 



