400 On a tteio African Coretlira- 



Abdomen greyish brown, with dark apical borders to the 

 segments and pale hairs. Leo:s unhanded, pale ochreous, 

 semitransparent, hairs pale. Wings pale ochreous, rather 

 pointed at the tip. 



$ . Head black, with a few brown hairs ; proboscis deep 

 brown, acuminate, short, with numerous brown hairs, longest 

 at the base and tufted apically; palpi deep brown, with 

 brown hairs and some showing paler reflections ; antennae 

 brown, with dark basal segment and with pale hairs. 



Tliorax deep rich brown, with long pale hairs, a median 

 line and a somewhat darker area on each side of it in front ; 

 prothoracic lobes very dark brown, with long pale golden- 

 brown hairs ; scutellum dark brown, almost black in some 

 lights, with brown hairs with dull golden-brown reflections ; 

 metanotura deep brown ; pleurae ochreous with darker 

 markings. 



Abdomen brown with a greyish sheen, the apical borders 

 of the see:ments dark, the segments spotted with small 

 round darker brown spots, each with a dark central spot 

 from which arises a brown hair with paler reflections 

 apically. 



Legs uniformly pale ochreous, with pale hairs which are 

 dense ; the ungues equal, simple, dark brown, and rather 

 straight. The legs look semitransparent in some lights. 



Wings pale ochreous to pale brown, varying in colour in 

 different lights, also the hairs ; first submarginal cell much 

 longer and slightly narrower than the second posterior cell, 

 somewhat contracted near the apex, its base nearer the base 

 of the wing than the second posterior cell, its stem less than 

 one-third the length of the cell ; stem of the second 

 posterior about one and two-thirds the length of the cell ; 

 posterior cross-vein not quite its own length distant from 

 the mid cross-vein. 



Halteres pallid. 



Length 3'5 mm. 



Hab. Kampala Swamp, Uganda. 



Time of capture. 25. xi. 1909. 



Observations. Described from a single female. It differs 

 from the other African species so far described (C. cerato- 

 pagones, Theobald) in the pale unhanded legs and dark 

 thorax. 



This specimen was included in a collection of Culicidse 

 made by Mr. Fraser, R.A.M.C, and Dr. C. J. Baker, M.O., 

 of Kampala, Uganda. 



Type in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.). 



