Genus Limatus. 627 



Sub-Family LIMATINAE. 



This sub-family contains but one genus which is very marked, 

 namely, Limatus, in which the proboscis is curiously jointed and 

 elbowed, a peculiarity seen in no other Culicine. 



Genus LIMATUS. Theobald (1901). 

 Simondella. Laveran (1902). 



Mono. Culicid. II., p. 349 (1901) ; III., p. 333 (1903), Theobald ; Comp. 

 Rend. d. 1. Soc. de Biologie, p. 1158 (1902), Simone Laveran. 



Limatus durhamii. Theobald (1901). 

 Simondella curvirostris. Laveran (1902). 

 Aedeomyia curvirostris, Neveu-Lemaire (1902). 



Mono. Culicid. II., p. 349 (1901) ; III., p. 333 (1903), Theobald ; Comp. 

 Rend. d. 1. Soc. de Biologie, p. 1158 (1902), Laveran-Simon ; Mem. de 

 la Soc. Zool. de France, XV., p. 223 (1902), Neveu-Lemaire; Les 

 Moustiques, p. 429 (1905), Blanchard; Os Mosquitos no Paros, p. 122, 

 pi. V., fig. 20 (1905), Goeldi. 



Fresh $ 's and $? 's have been received from Professor Goeldi 

 from Para taken in October. Professor Goeldi figures the J with 

 the last hind tarsal white, this only shows when the insect is 

 held in certain directions, and is apparently only on one surface 

 of the segment. 



The male fore legs have the last three segments white ; 

 the front ungues (attached to white segments) are unequal, 

 one nearly straight, the other curved twice and apparently 

 contorted. The fresh male examined shows the apical proboscis 

 tuft very large, and but a scanty one at the bend. Genitalia 

 very peculiar, the basal lobes are small, and the large claspers 

 terminate in an expanded complex apex, consisting of a large 

 branch terminating in a very small segment (this may be the 

 clasper proper) and a large cup-shaped irregular mass with 

 fimbriated and serrated edges ; there is also a prominent curved 

 tuft of golden hairs at the base of the lobes. 



Wings with short broad scales ; the first sub-marginal much 



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