612 A Monograph of Culicidae. 



Dendromyia oblita. Lutz (1904). 

 Mosquitos do Bresil, pp. 49 and 68 (1904), Lutz (in Bourroul). 



Head and thorax brown, pleurae pale silvery. Abdomen 

 deep brown, traces of pale creamy lateral areas and pale creamy 

 venter. Legs all brown except the last three tarsals and apex 

 of the second. Wings with the fork-cells shorter than in 

 D. personata, Lutz. 



9 . Head deep brown, clothed with flat brown scales showing 

 violet reflections, white ones at the sides and a narrow white 

 border around the eyes with a patch of white ones between them 

 in front and extending as a line between them ; palpi, proboscis 

 and antennae, deep brown with dull violet reflections. 



Thorax deep brown, with irregularly-disposed flat dusky black 

 scales showing dull violet . reflections, scutellum with similar- 

 coloured but larger flat scales, mid lobe with apparently only two 

 posterior border-bristles ; prothoracic lobes with brown and some 

 creamy and white flat scales ; metanotum paler brown with two 

 median dark areas and brown chaetae ; pleurae ochreous and 

 brown with flat silvery white scales, especially dense in front and 

 with a few dusky ones in the mid region. 



Abdomen deep brown with dull violet reflections, some creamy 

 scales laterally forming a thin line and it is creamy scaled 

 ventrally. 



Legs deep brown, with metallic bronze and violet reflections, 

 femora paler beneath, the mid legs with the last three tarsals and 

 apex of the second dull white ; ungues equal and simple. 



Wings with some thinnish lateral scales, but many typical 

 Dendromyian ones on the first and apices of other veins; the 



Fig. 281. 

 Wing of Dendromyia oblita. 9 • Lutz. 



first sub-marginal cell longer and narrower than the second 

 posterior cell, its base slightly nearer the base of the wing, its 

 stem about one-half the length of the cell ; stem of the second 



