Culicoides milnei, Austen. 



Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ser. 8, Vol. III., p. 283 



(1909). 



Plate I., fig. 1. 



The only specimens of this easily recognisable species at present 

 in the Museum are three females (including the type) from Nairobi, 

 East Africa Protectorate, 5000 ft., May 4th, 1906 {Dr. A. D. Milne), 

 and thirteen females from Wakoli's, Busoga, Uganda, May 8th, 

 1909 {Captain A. E. Hamerton, D.S.O., R.A.M.C). Culicoides 

 milnei has not been recorded as yet from any other locality. 

 According to Dr. Milne this species is prevalent at Nairobi in 

 the rainy season, when it invades bedrooms at night. Writing 

 on August 21st, 1906, Dr. Milne stated that these Midges abound in 

 the grass on the Athi Plains during the wet weather, but that, so 

 far as he was aware, there was nothing to connect them with any 

 disease of human beings or domestic animals. 



Owing to the pattern of its wing-markings, Culicoides milnei 

 cannot be confused with either of the two following species, the only 

 other African representatives of the genus Culicoides yet described. 



Culicoides brucei, Austen. 



Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ser. 8, Vol. III., p. 282 



(1909). 



Plate I., fig. 2. 



The type and four other females of this species, all of which were 

 taken in the vicinity of the Mianga River, Uganda, in July, 1903 

 {received from Colonel Sir David Bruce, C.B., R.A.M.C, F.R.S.), 

 are the only specimens at present in the National Collection, and 

 the species has not yet been recorded as occurring in any other 

 locality. The fact that Culicoides brucei sucks blood was mentioned 



