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posterior celt iicnrlv as long as the eell ; supernumerary and mid cross-veins in 

 one line, posterior cross-vein about its OAvn length distant behind the mid. 

 Ilalteres with pale sti'in and fuscous knob. 



Legs lirown with very narrow apical yellow bauds. 



LeiKjth. 4.5 to .5 mm. 



Habitat. Baro and Pibor. 



Observations. Described from several females, but all have been slightly 

 damaged, the wings are very characteristic and a])})roach nearest to Giles's Anopheles 

 (/ii/as from In<lia. Dr. Ralfonr states that "it boarded the steamer in the evening 

 at Baro and Int freely. 



There is variation in the wing marking especial!}' in the size of the black 

 spots on the wing field. It is abundant on the Baro. 



Genus Myzomyia, Blanchard. {Grassia, Theobald.) 



Comp. Rend Hel). Soc. Biolog. No. 23, p. 795, Blanchard [Myzoiinjia) 1902; 

 .lourn. Trop. :\[i.d. \ ., p. 181, Theobald {Grassia), \m2 ; Mono. Culicid. III., 

 p. 24, Theobald, 1903; Mem. X, Liverpool School Trop. Med. App. p. 4, (Varieties 

 iniibrosa and ■■oibiniib/'osa). Theobald (1903). 



Myzomyia nili, n. sp. 

 (Plates I., Figs. 3 & 4 ; III., Fig. 2 ; V., Fig. 3) 



Related to Myzomyia funesta, (Giles) liTit easily told by its much darker 

 hue than in the dark varieties of funesta, by the palpi having one small apical 

 pale band only and b}' the palpi and the proboscis being much shorter than the 

 body. 



Female. Head deep brown with grey upright forked-scales in the middle with 

 a slight creamy hue, dusky ones at the sides, a creamy white tuft of hair and 

 scales projecting fonvards between the eyes ; antenna? deep brown -with brown 

 hairs ; palpi thin, as long as the proboscis covered with lalack scales, the aj^ex 

 only pale; clyjieus black with a sulcus across the middle; proboscis thin and 

 black, apex acuminate and testaceous with a few black hairs; proboscis and jialpi 

 not nearly as long as the l)ody. 



Thorax dull, pale fawm colour in the middle, dark lirown at the sitles, 

 covei'ed with scattered pale golden cur\ed hair-like scales, a tuft of pale creamy 

 naiTow-ciirved ones in front projecting over tlie head ; scutellum pale l)rowii with 

 manv brown border-bristles; metanotum bi'owii : pleiuu^ pale broAvn with a 

 greenish tinge. Abdomen black with rich brown hairs. 



Legs bro^vn, unhanded, Avith small simple, equal ungues. 



Wings (Plate I., Figs. 3 & 4) mainly black scaled, with three yellow costal 

 spots spreading evenly on to the first long vein, all the veins dark scaled, 

 except for a small yellow spot at the base of each of the two fork-cells, and 

 at the cross-veins and another at the lower branch of the second fork-cell 

 where it joins the costa and one on the costa where tlu' low^'r branch of the 



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