GENUS URANOT^NIA 495 



13. URANOTiENIA CyERULEOCEPHALA, Theobald 



(Monog. II, p. 256). 



Tarsi unhanded, brown. Head with shiny azure-blue scales. 

 Thorax chestnut-brown, with a small silvery-white spot on each 

 side in front, and a white line on each side, just in front of the 

 wings. Abdomen brown, unhanded. 



2 . — Head covered entirely witli flat azure-blue scales, slightly paler 

 around the eyes, and with black upright forked scales behind ; antennae 

 brown, with rather large joints ; proboscis brown ; palpi black, very 

 minute. Scutellum clothed with flat black scales. Pleurse paler than the 

 niesonotum, sometimes with a white patch. AVings with venation much 

 as in other typical species, but apparently without basal patches. Legs 

 deep brown, unadorned. Halteres with white stem and black knob. 

 Length. — About 2*4 mm. 



Habitat. — Old Calabar. Taken in officers' mess. 



14. URANOTiENIA MASHONAENSIS, Theobald 



(Monog. II, p. 259). 



Tarsi unhanded, brown. Thorax bright rufous. Abdomen 

 unhanded, brown. Wings with normal venation, hut apparently 

 without glistening basal spots. Scutellum clothed with linear 

 curved black scales. 



Head and appendages entirely dark brown, but for a pair of creamy 

 lateral patches behind the eyes ; proboscis much dilated. Pleurae pale 

 yellowish. Legs uniformly brown, with pale coxae. Tarsal claws smiple 

 in both sexes, but markedly unequal in the fore and mid ungues of the jj . 

 Lencftli. — About 2'8 mm. 



Habitat. — Salisbury, Mashonaland. 



Observation. — This is the only Uranotcenia with curved narrow 

 scales on the scutellum, and even here there are flat ones intermixed. 

 Mr. Theobald further describes an allied form which he names U. alba 

 in which the abdomen is apically pale banded. 



Genus XXII., Wyeomyia, Theobald 



(Monog. II, p. 2G7). 



This genus has been separated by Mr. Theobald from Mdes 

 on account of the metanotum being armed with bristles instead 

 of being nude, as in all other mosquitoes except the single species 

 of the genus Trichoprosopon. 



Unfortunately, it is often by no means easy to make out the 

 characters of this region, as in most positions it is much hidden 



