Genus Sabethoides. 617 



by Dr. Lutz. It is a somewhat obscure species allied to D. 

 ulocoma, Theobald, but at once told by the abdominal lateral 

 spots, and from D. paraensis, Theobald, by the narrow white 

 scaled line between the eyes, not a knob-like patch of yellow ones 

 as seen in paraensis. 



Genus SABETHOIDES. Theobald (1903). 

 Sabettoides. Blanchard (1905). 



Mono. Culicid. III., p. 328 (1903), Theobald; Les. Moust., p. 423 (1904), 

 Blanchard; Gen. Ins. Fam. Culicid., p. 39 (1905), Theobald. 



A single new species is described here in this genus. 



Sabethoides puepureus. n. sp. 



Head and prothoracic lobes metallic violet, the latter with a 

 few golden scales. Thorax deep shiny black, with dull dusky 

 apple green scales and broad creamy lateral ones ; pleurae black, 

 with flat silvery scales. Scutellum with apple green and azure 

 blue scales. Abdomen rich metallic purple, with coppery red 

 patches, lateral patches of large silvery scales, which are still 

 larger on the upper sides of the venter ; apex hairy. Legs 

 xmbanded, metallic bronze and purple. Wings yellow at the base. 



9 . Head black, clothed with flat metallic violet scales, 

 which become deep brown behind ; deep dusky black chaetae 

 around the eyes, and two very long ones projecting between 

 them ; antennae, palpi and proboscis deep brown, the latter short ; 

 basal segment of antennae with hoary sheen. 



Prothoracic lobes black, with flat purple scales and a few 

 golden ones ; mesonotum shiny black, with flat apple green scales, 

 dusky in some lights, becoming larger behind and brighter ; in 

 front on each side some flat golden-yellow scales and some flat 

 white ones further back ; scutellum with flat apple green and 

 ooppery scales ; pleurae black, with flat silvery scales ; metanotum 

 blackish, with four black chaetae. 



Abdomen metallic purple with coppery red patches, basal 

 segment with a white patch on each side, laterally are patches of 

 silvery scales, which more or less spread all along the sides, but 

 are largest in the middle of each segment ; beneath this is a broad 

 line of very large long spindle-shaped silvery scales ; apex densely 

 hairy and with some small white and coppery scales ventrally. 



