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PART II— Systematic. 

 Myzomyia funesta Giles. 



The following description of certain features of the female 

 is given by Theobald (vol. i, p. 178) : 



" Palpi black, with a white apex and two white rings, the 

 one nearest the apex sometimes involving both sides of the 

 last two joints. 



''Legs dark brown to nearly black, with a few pale apical 

 scales to the metatarsi and tarsi, often indistinct unless seen 

 under the microscope. 



" Wings with the black costa with six pale creamy almost 

 white spots, the three apical ones extending* on to the first 

 long vein, remaining veins with patches of white and black 

 scales as follows : One small and one large dusky patch on 

 each of the branches of the first submarginal cell, the greater 

 part of its stalk dark scaled, a dark patch at the base and 

 apex of the third long vein, two dark patches on each branch 

 of the second fork-cell, and the greater part of the root and 

 stem dusky, two dark patches on the upper and one on the 

 lower branch of the fifth vein, another at the fork, and 

 another at the base of the vein, two small dusky patches on 

 the sixth. . . . Fringe black, with pale spots at the junc- 

 tions of all the veins, except the sixth ; apex mostly yellow, 

 but with a black spot between the two branches of the first 

 submarginal cell. Length, 3 to 3'5 mm." 



In vol. iii, p. 84, two varieties are described: " umbrosa — 

 costa black at base, unbroken by the typical small pale spot. 

 V^eins with dusky scales predominating, the pale scaled areas 

 restricted to the region of the cross veins, and bases of the 

 fork-cells, and on the fifth long vein ; the third long vein 

 dark, as in rhodesiensis. Wing fringe spotted as in the 

 type. Subumbrosa — costa black at the base, unbroken by 

 any pale spot. Dusky scales predominating, but not con- 

 trasted, as in the type, with the pale scaled areas. Third 

 long vein pale scaled in the middle, and pale scaled 

 areas also on the fourth, fifth, and sixtli." 



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