344 A Monograph of Culicidae. 



Habitat. — Sao Paulo, Brazil (Dr. A. Lutz). 



Time of capture. — April. 



Observations. — Redescribed from specimens given me by Dr 

 Lutz. It is a very marked species which undoubtedly comes in 

 the genus Culicada, the broad curved head scales and the dense 

 linear wing scales and palpi of the $ agree with Felt's type of 

 this genus. It is a very marked species easily told by the broad 

 band on the mid and hind legs involving both sides of the 

 metatarsi and tarsi, broader on the mid than hind legs. 



Culicada lutescens. Fabricius (1775). 

 Culex lutescens. Fabr. (1775). 

 Culex flavescens. Yillers (1789) (non Theobald). 

 Culex fiavescens. Fabr. (1805). 



Systema entonio., etc., Flensburgi et Lipsiae (1775), et Ent. Syst. Hafniae 

 (1792-94), Fabricius; Ex. Faun. Fridr. (1789), Villers; Syst. Antl. 

 (1805) ( = flavescens) , Fabricius; Rev. Sist. Del. Culicidae Europee, 

 p. 267 (1896), Ficalbi ; Syst. Berch. Europ. Zweifliig. Inst. I., p. 8 (1818), 

 Meigen; Syst. Nat. V. 2888, 9, Gimmerthal ; Ins. Brit. Dipt. III., 248 

 (1856), Walker; Faun. Austr. Die Fliegen I., Schiner; Ann. Mus. Nat. 

 Hung. III., p. 91 (1905), Theobald. 



Head clothed with pale yellowish scales, palpi and proboscis 

 black. Thorax clothed with dull pale yellow scales, having a 

 slightly reddish brown hue in the middle ; in certain lights the 

 scales on the mid line seem paler, then showing two dark (reddish 

 brown) lines ; pleurae pale scaled. Abdomen covered with pale 

 yellowish scales. Legs with most of femora yellowish, remainder 

 black. 



$ . Head deep brown clothed with large pale creamy yellow 

 narrow-curved scales in front and with dense yellow upright 

 forked ones behind ; palpi, clypeus and proboscis black ; antennae 

 deep brown, the basal and second segments with creamy scales, 

 those on the basal segment forming a distinct pale spot. 



Thorax deep brown, clothed with rather large pale yellow 

 narrow-curved scales at the sides, front and behind, with thinner 

 and more closely set reddish ones in the middle, the darker area 

 having a median line of pale yellow scales, easily seen under the 

 two-third power, but not otherwise, the thorax thus looks when 

 held in certain lights as if it had two rather darker broad median 

 areas. Scutellum deep brown with large narrow-curved pale 

 yellow scales, border-bristles and also those on the meso thorax 



