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cross-vein longei' than the mid and about its own length distant from it : halteres 



with grey stem and black scaled knob. 

 LeiKjth. 2 mm. 



Male. Proboscis (Fig. 6) broAvn, swollen from a little past the middle ventrally, 



apex truncated, labella3 leaf-like and 

 acuminate, clothed with small brown 

 scales. Palpi very thin and needle-like, 

 about two-thirds the length of the 

 proboscis, swollen at the base and 

 clothed with small broAvn scales. An- 

 tennae denselv plumose, i^lmne-hairs 



Fig. G ..11 



Mimotnyia tini/ormist n. sp. T proboscis DrOAVTl. 



Legs brown, unhanded ; fore and mid ungues simple, unequal ; hind, small 

 equal and simple. Wings (Plate I., Fig. 10), with similar scales to the female, 

 Ijut the lateral clavate ones rather shorter and broader (Fig. 5) ; the upper 

 branch of the first submarginal cell rather close to the first long vein ; 

 fir,st submarginal cell scarcely narrower but almost the same length as the 

 second posterior cell, its stem as long as, or longer than, the cell, its base 

 nearer the apex of the wing than that of the second posterior cell, stem of 

 the latter as long as the cell ; posterior cross-vein longer than the mid and 

 about its own length distant from it, supernumerary and mid cross-veins united. 

 Upper costal border with black spines. 



LetKjtlt. 2 mm. 



Habitat. Lado (female) ; Bahr-El-Jebel (male). 



Oh.^ervations. Described from a single female and male. I feel almost 

 sure the male belongs here as the ijeneral characters are so similar. It can at 

 once be told from the two other African Mimomyias by the general brown 

 hue. The female was partly denuded in transit, but some notes sent by 

 Dr. Balfour complete the description. 



Miinoinyia .splendena, Theobald 

 Mono. Culicid. III., p. 304 (1903) 



Di-. Balfour records this very marked species from the Sudd country^ 

 Bahr-El-Jebel ; the specimen being captured on the steamer. He has not 

 sent me the specimen, but says apart from the features mentioned below, it 

 entirely agrees with the type having apple-green scales on the thorax, etc. 



The following difterences are pointed out. — "The halteres of a fine lemon 

 yellow ; there is a thick scahng, almost tufting, at the apices of the tibiiu with metalhc 

 violet scales and metallic violet scales are scattered over the tibia? and some on 

 the coxsB." These differences in colour are due probably to Dr. Balfour noting 

 a fresh specimen, whilst mine was some months old. The only important 

 character is the trace of tibial tufting, but if only slight it cannot be taken as 

 a character sufficient to separate the specimen as a new species. 



