Genus Hyloconops. 587 



Hyloconops pallidiventer. Lutz (1904). 

 Mosquitos do Brasil, p. 49 (1904), Lutz (in Bourroul). 



Head black ; palpi and proboscis black. Thorax dark brown, 

 ochreous in front and at the pleurae, with a darker median area 

 on the latter, a small line of silvery white scales on each side of 

 the mesonotum in front, and white scales on the prothoracic lobes 

 and white punctae on the pleurae. Abdomen dusky metallic deep 

 blue, with apical lateral silvery spots. Legs unbanded, deep 

 metallic bronze and violet ; femora beneath and base of tibiae 

 pale. 



$ . Head clothed with flat scales showing violet in some 

 lights, dull violet and brown in other lights ; two brown chaetae 

 projecting forwards between the eyes ; the proboscis and palpi 

 black, the latter with metallic hues, the former rather swollen 

 apically and golden ventrally at the apex, violet in some lights ; 

 antennae deep brown with some dusky scales on the second and 

 third segments. 



Thorax brown with narrow-curved dusky brown scales, a 

 patch of flat scales on each side in front, mostly dusky, but the 

 upper edge pale showing as a white line with a lens ; prothoracic 

 lobes ochreous with flat dusky and apical silvery white scales ; 

 the posterior part of the mesonotum with some flat azure blue 

 scales near the scutellum, and the scutellum with similar flat 

 azure blue scales ; metanotum brown with flat creamy scales and 

 brown chaetae ; pleurae entirely clothed with dense armour of 

 brown, ochreous and white flat scales. 



Abdomen dull metallic violet blue with apical white spots ; 

 in some lights it will show deep green or blue. 



Legs deep brown with metallic violet and bronze reflections. 



Wings with the first sub-marginal cell much longer and 

 narrower than the second posterior cell, its base much nearer the 



Fig. 268. 

 Wing of Hyloconops pallidiventer. 9 • Lutz. 



