468 MOSQUITOES OF NORTH AMEEICA 



Male Genitalia. 

 1. Harpagones subquadrate, distally with three large curved teeth 



allostigma Howard, Dyar & Knab (p. 472) 

 Harpagones conical, taper-pointed, with a series of small teeth on inner 



margins Mgoti Bellardi (p. 469) 



LABV^. 



1. Pecten of 7-9 teeth, well separated and extending far beyond middle of tube 



Ugoti Bellardi (p. 470) 

 Pecten of 10-12 teeth, not extending much beyond middle of tube 



allostigma Howard, Dyar & Knab (p. 472) 



LUTZIA BIGOTI (Bellardi) Theobald. 

 Culex tigoti Bellardi, Mem. Ace. Sc. Torino, xxi, 200, 1862. 

 Culex Mgoti Osten Sacken, Smiths. Misc. Colls., xvi, 19, 1878. 

 Culex Hgotii Giles, Gnats or Mosq., 209, 1900. 

 Culex bigotii Theobald, Mon. Culic, i, 343, 1901. 

 Culex bigotii Giles, Gnats or Mosq., 2 ed., 390, 1902. 

 Lutzia bigotii Theobald, Mon. Culic, iii, 155, 1903. 

 Lutzia bigotii Lutz, in Bourroul, Mosq. do Brasil, 38, 1904. 

 Taeniorhynchus bigotii Giles, Journ. Trop. Med., vii, 382, 1904. 

 Culex bigotii Blanchard, I<es Moustiques, 276, 1905. 

 Lutzia bigotii Blanchard, Les Moustiques, 394, 1905. 



Lutzia bigotii Dyar & Knab (in part), Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xiv, 180, 1906. 

 Lutzia bigotii Coquillett (in part), U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., Tech. Ser. 11, 22, 1906. 

 Lutzia bigoti Feryassli, Os Culicid. do Brazil, 45, 182, 343, 1908. 

 Lutzia bigotii Theobald, Mon. Culic, v, 293, 1910. 



Okiginal Desceiption of Culex bigoti: 



Femm. Flavus, flavo-nigro-villosus. Capita fusco, flavo-villoso : antennis fuscis; 

 articulis basalibus antice posticeque flavescentibus : palpis flavis, ad basim nigra- 

 villosis: proboscide longiuscula, flava, ad basim irregulariter nigro-squamosa, ad 

 apicem. fusca. Thorace convexiusculo, flavo-fuscescente, dorso obscuriore, flavo- 

 aureo-tomentoso: pleuris flavidis: pectore fuscescente: scutello, metathorace et hal- 

 teribus flavidis. Abdomine fiavo: segmentis om,nibus antice transversim late vitta- 

 tis: vitta e tomento nigro, lata, dorso postive profunde emarginata. Pedibus flavidis, 

 nigro-tomentosis : articulationibus pallidis, non nigro-tomentosis. Alis hyalinis, ad 

 marginem anticum, flavidis: nervis squamosis: squamis nigris, in, tres maculas 

 margini antico et apici contiguas dispositis: squamis intermediis flavidis. 



Lunghezza del corpo 9mm — Lunghezza delle ali 17mm. 



II colore biondo generale del corpo, il tomento nero della porzione anteriore degli 

 anelli dell'addome e le squame nere dei nervi delle ali disposte in tre macchie cos- 

 tituiscono i caratteri proprii di questa specie. 



Messico (SALLg). 



CoUezione Bigot. 



Desckiption of Female, Male, and Labva of Lutzia bigoti: 



Female. — Proboscis moderate, uniform, subeyliadrical, labellse conieally 

 tapered ; vestiture largely yellowish-white, intermixed with black scales at base, 

 a broad black subapical band. Palpi short, stout, densely hairy, less than one- 

 fourth as long as the proboscis, clothed with black and yellowish-white scales 

 intermixed tending to form bands, some silvery scales apicaUy. Antennae with 

 basal joints shorter, rugose, pilose, black, second joint longer than third and not 

 swollen, basal joints pale at their tips; tori subspherical, with a cup-shaped 

 apical excavation, brown, with a group of yellowish-white scales on inner side; 

 hairs of whorls sparse, short. Clypeus rounded triangular, prominent, dull 

 brown, nude. Eyes black. Occiput brown, with a few narrow, curved scales, 

 most of the vestiture of erect, forked ochraceous scales, a black spot on each 

 side, margins of eyes and cheeks yellowish white scaled ; a row of short brown 

 hairs along margin of eyes, a short tuft of shining yellow ones projecting on the 

 vertex. 



Prothoracic lobes elliptical, remote dorsally, clothed witli hair-like pale- 

 yellow scales and numerous dark bristles. Mesonotum brown dorsally, shading 

 to testaceous on the sides, rather sparsely clothed with narrow, curved, pale- 

 golden scales, short pale bristles dorsally and longer ones on sides; anterior 



