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Schiner * also notes a male from Brazil, in which the legs 
were not steel-blue but clear violet. This might be clue to 
holding the insect in different lights. 
2. Sabethes loxgipes. Fabricius. 
S. loculipes. Rob. Desvoidy. 
Culex long-ipes. Fabricius. 
(Syst. Anti. iv. 400, 2 (1794), Fabricius ; Ausseurop. Zwei. Ins. i. 11 (1828), 
Wiedemann; Essai s. 1. tr. d. Culioides, Mem. d. 1. Soc. d’Hist. Nat. de 
Paris, iii. (1827) (= loculipes), Desvoidy; Hist. Nat. Dipt. i. 36, 16 
(1834), Macquart; Dipt. Exot. i. 31, 3, pi. 1, fig. 2 (1838), and Sup. i. 
8, 9, pi. 1, fig. 2 (1848), Macquart; Dipt. Argentina, p. 67 (1891), 
Arribalzaga.) 
(Fig. 141, PI. XXXYI.) 
Thorax black, with metallic coppery and iridescent scales; 
abdomen black, with coppery and metallic purple lustre ; legs 
deep metallic purple and blue, the front pair with tibiae densely 
scaled, forming a small paddle, and also the metatarsus, first 
tarsal white beneath ; the middle legs bare, the tibiae and meta¬ 
tarsi with a much larger-scaled paddle, and the first three tarsi 
white with long white lateral scales on the first tarsal joint; 
hind legs with apex of tibiae only densely scaled, first three tarsi 
silvery-white beneath. 
$ . Head dark brown with metallic flat scales, mauve at the 
sides ; antennae dark brown, basal joint almost black, with a 
grey rim; palpi very short, black scaled; proboscis of moderate 
length, curved, black scaled, metallic; eyes and clypeus black. 
Thorax black, covered with small, spindle-shaped, flat, 
metallic and iridescent scales, chiefly showing azure blue, green 
and bronze reflections ; scutellum also densely covered with flat 
blue and green metallic scales ; metanotum dark brown; pleurae 
black, with dense flat white scales. 
Abdomen black, covered with metallic coppery, green, mauve, 
and blue scales above ; when held with the abdomen with its 
apex to the light, it looks deep green, when from the light more 
bronzy ; venter white scaled. 
Legs metallic purplish-black, with white markings; fore 
legs (Fig. 71, A) with the femora increasing in size towards the 
apex, metallic green at the base, remainder purple ; tibiae purple. 
* Eeise d. Novara, Dipt. p. 31. 
