Genus Culicada. 



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Abdomen deep brown with basal bands of creamy-white scales, 

 golden-brown border-bristles ; venter mostly white-scaled. 



Legs deep brown, unbancled, femora pale yellowish at base 

 and beneath, apex white ; a few pale sheened scales beneath the 

 tibiae and first tarsals ; ungues all equal and uniserrate. 



Wings with yellowish veins and brown scales ; first sub- 

 marginal cell longer and narrower than the second posterior cell, 

 its apex slightly nearer to the apex of the wing than that of the 



Fig. 136. 

 Wing of Culicada lazarensis. 9 • Felt. 



second posterior cell, the stem about two-thircls the length of the 

 cell ; stem of the second posterior as long as the cell ; posterior 

 cross-vein about its own length distant from the mid ; lateral vein 

 scales long and thin, the median broad and long. 



$ . Thorax as in 2 ; abdomen similar but with a few yellow 

 scattered scales on the dark area, with fine long golden hairs. 

 Palpi with the two apical segments swollen, the penultimate longer 

 than the apical, hair-tufts brown, a trace of a pale band at base 

 of former. The apical segment more swollen than the penulti- 

 mate. Antennae brown with pale bands and deep brown plume 

 hairs. 



Ungues of fore legs short, thick, unequal and uniserrate ; of the 

 mid unequal, uniserrate, the larger much longer than the smaller ; 

 hind equal and uniserrate. 



Wings with first sub-marginal cell much longer and narrower 

 than the second posterior cell, its apex nearer the apex of the 

 wing, its stem as loug as the ceil ; stem of the second posterior 

 longer than the broad cell ; posterior cross-vein about two-thirds 

 its own length distant from the mid. 



Length. — 5*5 to 6 mm. 



Habitat. — Elizabethtown, New York, U.S.A., and Karner, 

 N.Y. (E. P. Felt). 



