Genus Lepidoplatys. 501 



Genus LEPIDOPLATYS. Coquillett. 



Science, XXIII., p. 314 (1906). 



Head clothed with very large curved scales on occiput , very 

 small lateral flat scales and numerous fimbriate forked upright 

 scales, all arranged in a very irregular manner, giving a ragged 

 appearance as in Acartomyia. 



Thorax with narrow-curved scales and much broader ones 

 laterally, also on the scutellum. 



Wings mottled, with large, broad, rather acute triangular 

 scales, with either flat or irregular fimbriated apical borders, the 

 apex of the wings with rather broad, long, lateral vein scales. 

 The male has the second posterior cell short but very broad. 



Female palpi rather long, the male with the two distal segments 

 slightly swollen and with hair -tufts. 



The wing scales at once separate this genus from any other 

 Call cine. It comes between Mansonia and Etorleptiomyia. 



Two species so far known, one described by Coquillett as a 

 Culex and referred by Felt to Culicada. It does not bear any 

 affinities to either genus. Unless the very marked squamose 

 characters of the wings are examined one might mistake it for a 

 Grabhamia. The second species, L. sylvicola, Grossbeck, has been 

 mistaken for squamiger* 



Lepidoplatys squamiger. Coquillett (1904). 

 Culex squamiger. Coquillett. 

 Culicada squamiger. Coquillett. 

 Culex squamifer. Blancharcl (1905). 

 Grabhamia de niedmannii. Ludlow (1904). 



Ento. News, XV., p. SO (1904), Coquillett; Mosq. N. Jersey, p. 221 (1904), 

 Smith; Bull. 79, Ent. 22, p. 391 c. (1904) (Culicada squamiger), Felt ; 

 Canad. Ent. XXXVI., p. 234 (1904); (Grabhamia de Niedmanni), 

 Ludlow: Les Moust., p. 630 (1905) (C. squamifer), Blanchard. 



Head covered with grey scales ; proboscis and palpi black 

 with a few white scales. Thorax ornamented ; dark brown in the 

 middle with a few pale scales becoming rich brown in front, 

 silvery -grey at the sides, and broadest in front. Abdomen dark 

 brown with scattered yellow scales and basal white bands. Legs 



* Vide Canad. Ent. XXXVIII. , p. 129 (1906). 



