Genus Sabethinus. 619 



Sabethinus intermedius. Lutz (1904). 



Sdbettinus intermedins. Lutz (Blanchard) (1905). 



Mosquitos do Bresil, p. 48 (1904), Lutz in Bourroul ; Les Moustiques, 



p. 634 (1905), Blanchard. 



Head violet and black ; proboscis deep brown, short and 

 thick. Thorax deep black, with green, brown and silvery scales ; 

 pleurae silvery. Abdomen brilliant metallic violet, with silvery 

 to golden lateral spots and venter. Legs deep brown, with 

 metallic violet and coppery reflections, partly golden ventrally. 



? . Head deep brown, with brilliant violet and blue flat 

 scales in front, flat brown ones at the sides, and a few creamy 

 ones at the sides of the eyes. Clypeus frosty ; proboscis short 

 and thick brilliant violet ; palpi metallic violet with a few azure 

 blue scales at the base ; antennae brown with basal segment 

 brown below, frosty grey apically. 



Thorax deep black, clothed with irregular flat greenish blue 

 scales in front becoming much larger and brilliant apple green 

 over the roots of the wings, large brown ones in the middle, 

 similar coloured ones only larger to the mid lobe of scutellum 

 and large apple green ones to the lateral lobes ; chaetae black 

 (the apple green scales at times look almost like burnished 

 brass) ; prothoracic lobes with brown and brilliant violet scales ; 

 pleurae rich ochreous with silvery to pale golden flat scales. 

 Abdomen rich metallic violet, with basal lateral silvery to pale 

 golden spots and similar coloured venter. 



Legs brown, with deep violet and purple shades and brilliant 

 coppery hues ventrally ; ungues equal and simple. 



Wings with large brown scales ending asymmetrically ; the 



Fig. 285. 

 Wing of Sabethinus intermedins. 9 . Lutz. 



fork-cells very long, the first sub-marginal cell much longer but 

 no narrower than the second posterior cell, its base a little 

 nearer the base of the wing, its stem less than one-fifth the 



