174 MOSQUITOES OP NORTH AMERICA 



identification as is possible without an examination of types or knowledge of 

 Fabricins's exact locality. Kecently Dr. Arthur Neiva has examined this type 

 in the museum at Copenhagen and confirms our determination. 



LESTICOCAMPA SCHEDOCYCLIA Dyar & Knab. 



Lesticocampa schedocycUa Dyar & Knab, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxxv, 64, 1908. 

 Lesticocampa schedocyelia Theobald, Mon. Cullc, v, 622, 1910. 



Obioinai. Desckiption of Lesticocampa schedoctclia: 



Female. — Proboscis long, moderately slender, not swollen at the apex, clothed 

 with black scales with bluish iridescent reflection; palpi slender, about two-fifths 

 the length of the proboscis, clothed with black scales, with blue Iridescent luster; 

 occiput clothed with flat iridescent scales, blue and green predominating, and quite 

 dark in appearance in some lights, in other lights entirely silvery; there is a large 

 silver patch on the vertex; prothoracic lobes well separated, the upper portion 

 clothed with dark blue and violet iridescent scales, the lower portion with silvery 

 white scales; mesonotum brown-scaled, with bronzy luster; scutellum clothed with 

 flat, light greenish, and iridescent scales; metanotum with a group of setae near 

 the apex, without scales; postscutellum clothed with blue and green iridescent 

 scales; abdomen long and slender," subcylindrical, blunt at the end, clothed above 

 and at the sides with dark scales, which show blue, green, and bronzy reflections; 

 beneath white-scaled, the lateral margins shallowly indented on each segment; tip 

 of the abdomen with numerous coarse bristles; veins of the wings clothed with 

 bronzy brown broad scales; legs mostly dark-scaled, with blue, bronzy, and irides- 

 cent reflections; femora pale-scaled beneath; front and mid legs without white 

 markings; hind legs with a white spot at the apex of the femora beneath, a white spot 

 on the under sides of the tibiae beyond the middle, the tarsi with basal white dashes 

 on the under side, becoming progressively longer on each segment and reaching 

 nearly to the apex of the fifth joint; legs without ciliation. Length, 4 mm. 



Two specimens, interior of Nicaragua, without precise locality. (Dr. P. W. 

 Thornton.) 



Type.— Cat. No. 11974, U. S. N. M. 

 Desceiption of Female of Lesticocampa schedocyclia (Male and IiAbva Unknown) : 



Female. — ^Proboscis rather long, slender, uniform, labellae long, with minute 

 outstanding setae ; vestiture blue black, somewhat roughened. Palpi nearly one- 

 half as long as proboscis, uniform, black with a bronzy reflection, a few outstand- 

 ing setse. Antennae slender, basal joints about four times as long as wide, 

 terminal ones increasingly longer, rugose, coarsely pilose, black; tori sub- 

 spherical, with a cup-shaped apical excavation, brownish luteous, a patch of 

 brown scales within ; hairs of whorls rather sparse, long, black. Clypeus broad, 

 rounded, blackish brown, nude, with dense pale prurnosity. Eyes black, con- 

 tiguous at vertex. Occiput smoothly clothed wiili flat appressed scales, black 

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

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

 vertex. 



Prothoracic lobes large, elliptical, remote dorsally, luteous, clothed above with 

 dull-brown scales with blue and green metallic reflection, below with silvery 

 scales, a row of setae along anterior margin. Mesonotum brown, densely clothed 

 with small lanceolate scales, grayish brown with a submetalHc bronzy reflection, 

 a row of bristles around edges of disk and ante-scutellar area, and a dense area of 

 ferruginous ones at roots of wings. Scutellum trilobate, vestiture of broad, flat 

 brown scales with dull blue and green reflection, each lobe with a tuft of black 

 bristles. Postnotum elliptical, prominent, brown, with two oblique grooves con- 

 verging posteriorly and a small tuft of sefae posteriorly. Pleurae dark brown in 

 middle, coxae luteous, clothed with patches of silvery-white scales extending 

 under anterior margin of mesonotum. 



Abdomen subcylindrical, slightly flattened apically, blunt at tip, with terminal 

 bristles; dorsal vestiture black with a blue and green metallic reflection; venter 

 yellowish silvery, colors separated on sides in an undulating line. 



