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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
Lbsticocampa ? culicivora. Dyar and Knab (1907). 
Journ. N. York Ent. Soc. XV., 207 (1907). 
“ $ . Proboscis long and slender ; palpi not as long as three joints 
of the antennae, slender, black ; clypens black, shining, nude ; occiput 
clothed with flat deep blue scales, prothoracic lobes large, prominent, 
well separated, with a few silvery scales; mesothorax compressed, 
covered with steel blue scales; scutellum clothed with flat broad 
shining bright blue scales; metanotum deep brown, a group of setae 
towards the apex; abdomen long and slender, sub-cylindrical, the 
segments somewhat constricted beneath, above clothed with steel 
blue scales, beneath with yellowish silvery ones with an undulate 
lateral margin ; wings long and narrow, hyaline, cross-veins nearly 
incident; legs long and slender, hind legs with outstanding scales on 
the apical portion of the tibiae and particularly on the second joint of 
the tarsi, forming a short lateral fringe; black with violet blue 
reflection, the tarsi of the middle legs with the apical half of the 
second and the succeeding segments silvery-white, of the hind legs 
with the last two joints white. 
Length —5 mm. 
One specimen, Tabernilla, Canal Zone, Panama (A. Busck), bred 
from larvae in flowers of Heliconia , associated with some unbred long 
tubed larvae, probably a species of Gulex 
Note .—This may be a Trichoprosopon .—F. Y. T. 
Genus HYL0C0N0PS, Lutz (1904). 
Mosq. do Brazil, 49 and 55 (1904), Lutz; Mono. Culicid. IV., 
586 (1907), Theobald. 
Lutz describes two species in this genus :— 
1. Abdomen metallic blue and dark violet 
with apical lateral white spots ..... ...... pallidoventer. Lutz. 
2. Abdomen metallic purple and violet with 
golden apical lateral spots... longipalpis. Lutz. 
Hyloconops pallidoventer. Lutz (1904). 
Mosq. do Brazil, 49 (1904), Lutz; Mono. Culicid. IV., 587 (1907), 
Theobald ; Culicideos do Brazil, 267 (1908), Peryassu. 
Sao Paulo, Brazil. 
