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Genus Sabethes. 
Sub-Family CULICINA. 
Genus 4.— SABETHES. Robineau Desvoidy.* 
(Essai s. 1. tri. des Culicides (1827), Rob. Desv.; Brit. Mus. List, i. 1 
(1840), Walker; Dipt. Arg. xi. p. 06 (1891), Arri.) 
Head clothed with flat scales * thorax with flat scales ; 
abdomen with small flat scales, palpi of the 9 3-jointed, in the 
£ 3-jointed (?) ; antennae 14-jointed, second joint small, the joints 
slightly increasing in length towards the apex, very pilose in 
the 9 5 more so in the £ ; legs scaled, certain parts being pro¬ 
vided with very long hair-like scales in the ^ ; wings with rather 
broad scales (Fig. 70, c), first sub-marginal cell longer and 
narrower than the second posterior cell, the mid cross-vein 
nearer the apex of the wing than the supernumerary, the 
posterior nearer the apex still or parallel with the mid in the 9 > 
the third long vein carried through into the basal cell and 
continued to the root of the wing as a spurious vein. 
The characters given by Robineau Desvoidy for this genus 
are not sufficient, so I have remodelled the genus, taking S. 
remipes , Wied., as the type. 
The chief distinctive feature outside the scale ornamenta¬ 
tion is the position of the cross-veins. Although the forward 
position of the posterior cross-vein is similar to Mucidus (p. 2 G 8 ), 
the wing scales at once stop the two genera from being confused 
with one another. The curious large patches of long leg scales 
in the occur again in the genus Eretmapodites , mihi, but the 
venation again readily separates the two genera. 
There seem to be only two species, S. remipss, Wiedemann, 
and S. longipes, Fabr., which is considered by Arribalzaga to be 
the £ of the former, which is incorrect, there being a £ 
specimen of S. remipes in the British Museum collection. 
Walker’s Sabethes scintillans cannot be included in the genus. 
It is distinctly a Psorophora. The members of this genus are 
purely sylvan in habits, and appear to be very uncommon. 
Dr. Nuttall sends me a note and field sketch from Dr. Durham 
of a Sabethes in Para, which forms undoubtedly a new species. 
* Fresh material given me by Dr. Durham necessitates this genus being 
remodelled. There are chaetae on the metanotum and the palpi are short 
in both sexes. Sabethes must therefore be removed to Section B. (vide 
Appendix for generic characters, etc., p. 345, Vol. II.) 
