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CUWCINI 173
golden scales, black flat ones on the cheeks, the eye margined with
white scales. Mesonotum brown, with fine golden scales fairly evenly
distributed. Adbomen black without basal or apical white bands
(these bands may be indicated in some specimens). Legs dark
brown, with bluish or bronzy reflections in various lights; femora
pale beneath. Wing scales narrow, dark brown.
il4nle hypop~giZLI?z. “Side-piece much swollen, subglobular ; inner
division of the lobe long columnar, the inner limb reduced, shortly
divaricate from the middle of the arm, its appended filament seta-
form, the one at summit short, thick, with long T-shaped tip; outer
division stoutly columnar, with a strongly inserted filament with long
reflexed T-shaped tip, carrying two filaments to its base, a stout and
a slender filament in addition. Clasper stout, the snout occupying
more than the outer half, sharply enlarged after the constriction;
a long outer crest, before which is a stout horn; terminal horn long,
the spine hooked, not appendiculate. Tenth sternites very small,
crumpled, the dentition indistinct. Ninth tergites small, shortly
stemmed, bearing many setae. Mesosomal plate simple, small, con-
cavely furcate, the inner limb somewhat horn-like.” (Dyar, 1928.)
Larva. “Head transverse, rounded quadrate ; antennae large,
longer than head, a large tuft at outer third, the part beyond more
slender, terminal spines long. Lateral comb of the eighth segment
of about fifteen spiny scales in an irregular double row. Air-tube
straight and slightly tapered, about six times as long as wide, pecten
reaching one-third ; five tufts beyond, decreasing regularly in size,
the terminal one not half as long as the basal one; two small tufts
on lateral aspect. Body densely hairy. Anal segment longer than
wide, ringed by the plate, which is pilose; ventral brush posterior;
dorsal tuft a long hair, a long and a short hair on each side: lateral
tuft single, small. Anal gills very small, not more than half as long
as the width of the segment.” (Dyar, 1928.)
CULEXINHIBITATOR DyarandKnab
C&x idzibitator Dyar and Knab, Jl. N.Y. Ent. Sot., 14, 216.
1906.
Cutex iwuestigat~or Dyar and Knab, Jl. N.Y. Ent. Sot., 14, 216.
1906.
Czllex Zeprivlcei Dyar and Knab, Jl. N.Y. Ent. Sot., 15, 202.
1907.
CzzZex egberti Dyar and Knab, Jl. N.Y. Ent. Sot., 15, 214.
1907.