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A Monograph of Culiciclae. 
Observations .—A single 9 ■> sent by Senhor Carlos Moreira, 
of this species, differs from the type in having the leg banding 
involving both sides of the tarsal joints. Arribalzaga’s figure of 
this species gives a broad yellow band down the middle of the 
mesonotum. This band is in reality a broad testaceous stripe, 
with golden curved scales. The coxae are also brown in the Rio 
specimen, not reddish, but, beyond these minor differences, the 
specimen answers exactly to Arribalzaga’s description and 
figure. Another lot I find from the Lower Amazon, including 
a £ . These are for the most part rather browner than the 
one from Rio, but answer in all other respects. Dr. Lutz also 
sends me specimens from Sao Paulo. 
Dr. Lutz writes me concerning this species as follows : “ It is 
a real swamp mosquito, common in the littoral; stings pain¬ 
fully, in preference through the stockings, principally at dusk, or 
in the shade during the daytime. I have it from Rio, Sao Paulo, 
and Santos.” 
2. Taeniorhynchus Richardii. Ficalbi. 
Oulex Richardii. Ficalbi. 
(Bull. Soc. Ent. Ifal. p. 261 (1896).) 
(Fig. 122, PI. XXXI.) 
Thorax bright chestnut-brown, with small golden scales ; 
abdomen unbanded, dusky yellowish-black, with scattered yel¬ 
lowish scales and five or six pale lateral spots ; legs with metatarsi 
and tarsi basally pale banded; metatarsi also banded in the 
middle ; female ungues equal and simple; male ungues of fore 
and mid legs unequal, the large biserrated, the smaller simple 
hind equal and simple. 
9. Head brown, with narrow curved very pale creamy 
scales, which become almost white ab the sides of the head, and 
with ochraceous and black upright forked ones; antennae brown, 
with narrow pale rings, basal joint bright, pale ferruginous, also 
the base of the second joint; palpi yellowish-brown, evidently 
covered with dark brownish scales (Ficalbi says black, chequered 
with dull yellow); clypeus deep ferruginous-yellow; proboscis 
dull yellow, with scattered black scales, which almost cover it at 
the apex. 
Thorax bright chestnut-brown, with scattered golden scales, 
somewhat paler in front, and more orless distributed in rows; 
