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TIIK MOSQUITOES OF lUIYl'T, THK SUDAN AND ARYSSINIA 



Dr. Balfour sends a male whidi is doscribed here, I feel sure it is the 

 male of the lu'w species reeonled. It is one of the nmst curious mosquitoes I 

 have seen. The proboscis is much swollen for half its length, the labelUc 

 small, leaf like and acuminate and the palpi long and thin and acuminate, 

 al)iiut Twii-TJunls the length of the proboscis. The structure t)f the j^alpi would 

 Thus pbice it between the Culicina^ and Aedina>. 



Mniioiinjia uiiifoniiix^ n. sp. 

 (Plate' I., Figs. 7, 8, & lU) 



Head broAni with yelloAvish scales, thorax testaceous with small black 

 scales. Abdomen lirowii -with blackisli-bi-own scales, the apical segments ^vitll 



scattered creamy scales. Legs uni- 

 formly brown, venter of femora pale. 

 Wings with a pale spot at their base. 

 FeinnJe. Head brown, clothed 

 with rather irregulai' flat creamy 

 scales and S(.)me ycUoAv and black 

 u|)right-forked ones, the latter towards 

 the nape ; antenna^ brown, Ijasal joint 

 testaceous darker on the inside, 

 remainder deep brown ; proboscis 

 In-own, swollen apically and the labellaj 

 black : palpi small, testaceous, Avith 

 l)lack scales above. 



Thorax shiny brown with scat- 

 tered narrow-curved black scales ; 

 j^leura^ testaceous ; scutellum bright 

 brown with black narrow-cur\ed 

 scales, four border-bristles to the mid 

 lobe ; metanotum diestnut-brown 

 with l)rown scales and with liasal bands of dull creamy scales, so dull that they 

 arc only noticeable in certain lights, apical segments with a few scattered creamy 

 scales ; border-bristles dull golden. 



Legs uniformly broAvn, except the venter of the femora, which are pale: in 

 certain lights the legs show ochreous reflections. "Wings with lirown scales and \\irh 

 a nude shiny white basal patch, lateral scales on the apit-d poitions of the veins and 

 on the major area of the second and on one side of the fourth elongate, clavate. 

 those on the basal parts of the second and fourth longer than the others ; median 

 vein-scales short and spatulate a single row only, those on the sixth somewhat longer 

 than the rest; first submarginal cell al)oiit the same length and scarcely naiTOwer 

 than the second posterior cell, its base nearer the apex of the wing, its stem longer 

 than the cell : stem of the second posterior about the length of the cell : supernumeraiy 

 cross-vein slightly nearer the base of the wing than the mid cross-vein ; posterior 



Fig. 5 



Mimojityia uni/onnis X 



Enlarged portion of wing to show scales 



