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Male genitalia witli short broad basal lobes and longish claspers. 



Ungues of ^ equal, simple and small on fore and hind legs, unequal and simple on 

 mid pair. Fork-cells moderately long ; wing scales as in Mimomyia. 



This genus comes between Ficalhia and Mimomyia. From the former it can be told 

 by the wing scales, and from the latter by the flat scutellar scales, which in Mimomyia are 

 narrow-curved ones ; the $ proboscis is also very difierent to that in Mimomyia.. 



Two other species must be placed in this genus, namely Ficalhia inornata, Theob.*, 

 from the Transvaal, and Ficalhia nigripes, Theob. t, from Sierra Leone. 



8. Pseudoficalhia pandayii, nov. sp. (Plate 4, fig. 4 and Text-figs. 8 — 10). 



Head black ; thorax bright ochreous with two dark parallel lines behind ; scutellum 

 ochreous with three black spots; metanotum ochreous with two parallel darker lines; 

 pleurse pale. Abdomen unhanded or with a variable number of white basal bands, venter 

 pale. Legs uniformly dark brown. 



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Fig. 9. Pseudoficalhia pandani, nov. sp. a. Head of c? • b. Head of $ . 



? (Text-fig. 8 b). Head (Text-fig. 9 b) clothed with rather large flat black scales and 

 a few black upright forked scales and -with black chsetee ; clypeus and palpi black, proboscis 

 black, except apex which is pale ; antennae deep brown, basal segment black. 



Thorax bright ochreous with scattered long black scales which form two distinct dark 

 parallel lines behind, some smaller golden curved scales underlying them, chsetse long and 

 black ; scutellum pale ochreous with three patches of small rather elongate flat black scales 

 and black border bristles, three to each lobe ; metanotum ochreous with two broad darker 

 lines ; pleurae pale ochreous. 



Abdomen black, the fourth, fifth and sixth segments with narrow basal white bands ; 

 apex with numerous golden and brown bristles ; posterior border bristles dark ; venter 

 pale. 



* Theobald, The Entoraologist, xli. 108, 1908. 



t Monog. Culicid. iv. 578, 1907. 



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