URANOT-SINIA 8APPHIRINUS 901 



The following are not included in the table, as we possess no male specimens : 

 continentalis Dyar & Knab, and coatzacoalcos Dyar & Knab, while of anhydor 

 Dyar the genitalia have not been microscopically prepared. 



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1. Dorsal head-hairs not developed into spines, the upper pair multiple 



anhydor Dyar (p. 927) 

 Both pairs of dorsal head-hairs developed into thick spines 2 



2. Antennae glabrous geometrica Theobald (p. 921) 



Antennae more or less strongly spiculate 3 



Lateral plate of the eighth segment with five large teeth 



pulcherrima Lynch Arribaizaga (p. 910) 



3. Lateral plate of the eighth segment with six to nine teeth 4 



Lateral plate with about twelve teeth 7 



4. Antennae with many coarse spines sapphirinus Osten Sacken (p. 903) 



Antennae with few coarse spines 5 



5. Pecten teeth of the tube with a wide transparent fringe on one side 



lOioU Theobald (p. 913) 

 Pecten teeth of the tube narrowly fringed on both sides 6 



6. Upper lateral head-hair long, single coatzacoalcos Dyar & Knab (p. 916) 



Upper lateral head-hair short, double iasalis Howard, Dyar & Knab (p. 918) 



7. Antennae with few coarse spicules typhlosomata Dyar & Knab (p. 926) 



Antennae with many minute spicules calosomata Dyar & Knab (p. 924) 



The following species is not included in the table, as our specimen is im- 

 perfect : continentalis Dyar & Knab. We have also omitted socialis Theobald, 

 as our single larva is imperfect. 



^ URANOTiENIA SAPPHIRINUS (Osten Sacken) Lynch Arribalzaga. 



Aedes sapphirinus Osten Sacken, Trans. Am. Bnt. See, ii, 47, 1868. 



Vranotwnia saphirinus Lynch Arribalzaga, Rev. Mus. de La Plata, ii, 164, 1891. 



Aedes sapphirinus Howard, U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Ent, Bull. 4, n. s., 24, 1896. 



Aedes sapphirinus Coquillett, U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Ent., Circular 40, 8, 1900. 



Aedes sapphirinus Howard, U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Ent., Bull. 25, n. s., 22, 47, 1900. 



Mdes saphirinus Giles, Handb. Gnats or Mosq., 354, 1900. 



Vranotmnia saphirina Theobald, Mon. Culic, 11, 249, 1901. 



Uranotcenia sapphirina Howard, Mosquitoes, 236, 1901. 



Uranotwnia sapphirinia Dyar, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, ix, 179, 1901. 



Vranotwnia sapphirinia Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., v, 49, 1902. 



Vranotmnia saphirina Giles, Handb. Gnats or Mosq., 2 ed., 492, 1902. 



Vranotwnia sapphirinia Dyar, Proc. Bnt. Soc. Wash., v, 145, 1903. 



Vranotcenia sapphirina Johannsen, Bull. 68, N. Y. State Mus., 427, 1903. 



Vranotwnia sapphirinia, Felt, Bull. 79, N. Y. State Mus., 342, 391e, 1904. 



Vranotwnia sapphirinia Smith, N. J. Agr. Exp. Sta., Rept. Mosq., 337, 1905. 



Vranotwnia sapphirinia Blanchard, Les Moustiques, 407, 1905. 



Vranotwnia sapphirinia Felt, Bull. 97, N. Y. State Mus., 447, 493, 1905. 



Vranotwnia sapphirina Dyar & Knab, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xiv, 187, 1906. 



Vranotwnia sapphirina Coquillett, U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent, Tech. Ser. 11, 26, 1906. 



Vranotmnia saphirina Theobald, Mon. Culic, iv, 557, 1907. 



Euratoneus sapphyrrina Viereck, 1st Ann. Rept. Comm. Health Pa., 471, 1908. 



Vranotmnia sapphirina Pazos, Anal. Acad. Cien. mSd., flsc. y nat. Habana, xlv, 427, 



1908. 

 Vranotwnia saphirinus Pazos, San. y Benef., ii, 49, 551, 1909. 

 Vranotwnia sapphirina Theobald, Mon. Culic, v, 502, 1910. 

 Vranotwnia sapphirina Morse, Ann. Rept. N. J. State Mus., 1909, 721, 1910. 

 Vranotmnia sapphirina Thibault, Proc. Bnt. Soc. Wash., xii, 16, 1910. 



Obiginal Descbiption or Aedes sapphibinus : 



fo Fuscus; f route, thoracis linea media et pleurarum strigis cyaneo-micanti- 



bus- pedibus nl'grls; coxls, femorumque basi pallida; femorum tibiarumque extremo 

 apic'e superne niveis. Long. corp. 0.13. Long. al. 0.12 of an inch. 



Front blackish, with a metallic-blue reflection along the eyes, especially in the 

 middle- antennae blackish, scapus tawny; those of the male apparently 15-]ointed 

 (13 + 2) • flagellum with 12 beautifully bearded joints; a thirteenth, elongated, 

 linear joint has some scattered hairs, but no beard like the preceding ones. Pro- 

 boscis long, reaching in the male, if bent backwards, to about the middle of the 

 abdomen; rather conspicuously incrassated at the tip; perhaps still longer in the 



