African Phlebotomic Diptera. 3GI 



III general appearance resembluif/ T. kingsleyi, Ricardo. — 

 Front nioderateli/ broad, scarce!// [if at all) narrower below ; 

 expanded portion of third joint of antenme orange-rufous , 

 terminal annuli clove-brown or dark brown ; dorsum of thorax 

 (except scutelluui) cream-bi/J)', marked with three sharply de- 

 Jined clove-brown longitudinal stripes ; dorsum of abdomen 

 ochraceous-buJJ', with a conspicuous and sharply dejined cream- 

 biijj' median longitudinal stripe of nearly uniform luidth, and 

 distal extremity and a pair of admedian stripes clove-brown ; 

 icings {except costal cells and sligma) nearly hyaline, though 

 faintly tinged with drab ; legs [except coxa", tarsi, and tips of 

 front libue) cinnamon-coloured. 



Head: front cream-buff, slightly darker on vertex, clothed 

 with short ochrcous hairs and about four and a half times 

 as long as its width at the lower extremity ; subcallus 

 greyish cream-coloured ; face, jowls, and basioccipital region 

 light grey, clothed with white hair ; occiput smoke-gre}'^, 

 posterior orbits light grey; frontal callus dark brownj 

 shining, not in contact with eyes, roughly oblong in shape 

 (nearly twice as long as broad and rather narrower at its 

 upper extremity) and with its upper margin somewhat 

 irregular and indistinctly connected with a short, median, 

 clove-brown, linear or lanceolate extension, which occupies 

 centre of front ; proximal joint of palpi cream-bufl: and 

 clothed with white hair, terminal joint cream-coloured, long 

 and narrow (moderately swollen a little beyond base), clothed 

 on outer side with minute, appressed, whitish or yellowish- 

 white hairs : antenme (at least third joint) relatively rather 

 large, first and second joints greyish ochraceous-buff, upper- 

 distal angle of second joint not noticeably produced, third 

 joint long, its expanded portion moderately broad and with a 

 fairly prominent angle on its upper margin at end of 

 proximal third, terminal annuli (at least the three proximal 

 ones) large. Thorax : anterior extremity of dorsum olive- 

 grey, cream-buff longitudinal dorsal stripe on each side of 

 clove-brown median stripe rather broad, extending from 

 olive-grey anterior border to hind margin, of absolutely 

 uniform width throughout, and clothed with short Naples- 

 yellow hair; clove-brown dorsal stripes clothed with black 

 hair and about half as broad again as admedian cream-buff' 

 stripes, each outer clove-brown stripe diminishing in width 

 in front of transverse suture; sides of dorsum clothed with 

 yellowish hair, a fringe of black hair extending from base of 

 each wing to front margin ; pleurae and pectus light grey, 

 clothed with greyish-white hair; dorsum of scutellum grey 

 a.nd clothed with short, appressed, Naples-yeilow hairs, 



