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narrow-curved bronzy-brown scales and some scattered pale golden ones, some broader 

 creamy ones in front near the head ; chsetse dark brown to black ; scutellum (Plate 4, fig. 2) 

 pale brown clothed with flat silvery white scales and some similar coloured small narrow- 

 curved ones along the posterior border, posterior border-bristles long rich brown, six large 

 ones to the mid lobe in two groups and one smaller between, some very short pale golden 

 hairs between them ; metanotum brown ; pleurae pale brown with three patches of flat 

 creamy scales, two large and one small. Abdomen black, the basal segment dark, the 

 second, third and fourth with basal white bands and traces on the fifth, all the segments 

 with basal lateral white spots, border bristles pale golden ; venter dark but with very 

 broad basal white bands. 



Legs deep brown, unhanded ; femora pale beneath, except just at the apex, a small 

 apical pale band, tibige dark with a broad apical white band and with pale bristles, first 

 tarsal segments with pale bristles ; fore and mid ungues equal and uniserrate, hind equal 

 and simple (?). 



Wings (Text-fig. 2 a) with brown scales, the first submarginal cell longer, but no 

 narrower than the second posterior cell, its stem rather more than half the length of the 

 cell, its base slightly nearer the apex of the wing than that of the second posterior cell, 

 stem of the latter not quite so long as the cell ; mid cross-vein large, the posterior 

 considerably shorter than the mid and about twice its own length distant from it ; 

 halteres pale ochreous. 



Length. 3 to 4 mm. 



Localities. Seychelles: Dennis Island, VIII. 1908 (J. C. F. Fryer); Silhouette, 

 high forest, VIII. 1908 (H. Scott) ; Mah^, near Morne Blanc, X.— XL 1908 (H. Scott). 

 Aldabra : Takamaka (J. C. F. Fryer, 1908—9). 



Observations. Described from five perfect females. It is easily distinguished from 

 the other known Reedomyia by the pale apex of the femora and tibiae, by the apex of the 

 abdomen not being white, and from its nearest ally R. neohiannulata, Theob. (from West 

 Africa) by the hind tibial bands being much more prominent and no white scaled spot at 

 the base of the wings. 



In the previously described species of this genus I did not notice the small narrow- 

 curved scales at the posterior border of the scutellum plainly seen in the Seychelles 

 insect. 



One small female shows two obscure thoracic pale golden-scaled spots on the middle 

 of the mesonotum and traces of two anteriorly, but the general characters are such that 

 it cannot be accepted as a distinct species. It is one of two specimens from Aldabra, the 

 other quite as in the type. ( — var. similis, Text-fig. 2. b.) 



Genus CuLiCELSA, Felt. 



Felt, Bull. 79, Ent. 22, N. York State Mus. 391. 6, 1904; Theobald, Monog. Culicid. 

 iv. 377, 1907, V. 315, 1910. 



4. Culicelsa fryeri, nov. sp. (Text-fig. 3). 



Thorax deep rich brown with some golden scales forming four obscure, spots and 

 presenting linear arrangement ; scutellum slightly paler scaled. Abdomen black with 



