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NEW MOSQUITOES FROM THE SUDAN 
Mimctci ulcx 
kin^ii 
with two broad pale bands; proljoscis broadly pale-banded, a group of long fine hairs below 
in the middle and another at the base. Wings with the fork-cells short, the first sub- 
marginal longer and much narrower than the second posterior, which is conically triangular 
in form ; stem of the first fork-cell nearly two thirds the length of the cell; stem of the 
secoml fork-cell also nearly two thirds the length of the cell; posterior cross-vein more than 
twice its own length distant from the mid. 
(lenitalia, with the claspers, rather broad and sickle-shaped. 
Linigth: d'S to 5 mm. 
/fahitnf: Port Sudan (Dr. Crispin). 
<Hisernatiniis: Described from two pinned females and micro-preparations of the male. 
It is a very distinct sjjecies coming in the nifieiix group, easily told by the broad basal 
abdominal white l)ands with a few scattered black scales on them, the whitish pleura; and 
banded proboscis and Idack antennae. 
The somewhat broad lateral vein scales of this and the allied species, such as xitieiis, 
vishnni, annulirostriii, aUn, etc., and their general uniform appearance and banded proboscis, 
make it probable that they should be placed in a genus to themselves. Oide.i: sahi.'< has only 
been taken at Port Sudan in one place, namely, a tub sunk in a salt-water pool. 
Genus, Mimefe.cidex, nov. gen. 
Closely related to ('ulex and Bank.iieda, but differs from the former in the longer jjalpi 
of the female, and by having scales on the basal and second antennal segments, and from 
both in the male by having the palpi rather enlarged apically and with dense hair-tufts, and 
comi)osed of three segments, there being only two in BaiiksieUa, and also by the male hind 
ungues being unequal. 
Head clothed with narrow-curved and upright forked scales and flat lateral ones, 
broader in ^ than ^ ; palpi moderately long in female, long in male, the two apical segments 
rather enlarged, tip blunt, hair-tufts moderate size; two basal segments of the antennae with 
small scales. Thorax with very narrow-curved scales, prescutellar space scaly ; scutellum 
with narrow-curved scales. Ungues of male all unequal. 
A single species only so far known. 
ifiiiiefecide.i-: kini/ii, n. sp. 
Plates XXXIII., fig. .3, XXXIV., fig. 4, and XXXIX., fig. 4 
Thorax rich reddish-brown with five dull yellowish lines, the outermost one shortest. 
.\bdomen blackish-brown with basal creamy bands and an irregular creamy median line, 
widest on the posterior segments, giving the appearance of two quadrangular dark spots on 
each segment. Legs ochreous, darkened above and at the tips. Wings with a yellowish 
tinge and with yellow and dark scales on the costa and first long vein. 
$ — Head : deep brown with narrow-curved creamy yellow scales, slightly smaller and 
narrower and brighter just in front, thin, black, upright forked scales behind, long dark 
ch;etie projecting towards the middle line and some golden ones in front, placed on the 
median area. Eyes copiiery. Antennae with bright testaceous basal segment, also the next 
three, gradually becoming deep brown, small black scales on the basal and second segment ; 
verticillate hairs rather long, dark ; internodal hairs short, pale. Proboscis ochreous, dark 
scaled at the tip. Palpi ochreous, clothed with dark scales, through which the pale 
colour shows. 
Thara.fi: deep-purjjlish brown, clothed with scanty, small, almost hair-like, curved yellow 
and rich brown scales, the former arranged in broad lines, one median, extending to the 
prescutellar space, which is scaly, then one on each side extending nearly back to the scutellum. 
