African Fklelotomic J>iptera. 403 



brown ring, enclosing a grey spot ; antennce russet, frontal callus 

 clove-brown ; wings pale smoke-grey, light markings milky ; 

 hind tibia with two light rings. 



Head rather l)road, lateral frontal and median frontal dark 

 brown spots well marked ; frontal callus of moderate depth, 

 upper marjiiu nearly straiglit, very slightly coneave on each 

 side of middle line; face and jowls pearl-grey, clothed with 

 white hair ; palpi pale cream-buff or greyish buff, clothed 

 with white or yellowish-white hair, interspersed on outer side 

 of terminal joint with minute black hairs ; first joint of an- 

 tennce somewhat incrassated, first and second joints clothed 

 with black hair, upper angle of second joint eons[)icuously 

 produced, last three annuli of third joint dark brown, length 

 of last annulus less than that of the two preceding annuli 

 taken together. Thorax : dorsum with an olive-grey median 

 stripe running from front to hind margin and a pair of ad- 

 median stripes, generally becoming indistinct behind trans- 

 verse suture^ but reappearing near hind margin ; dorsum 

 clothed with Avhitish hair. Abdomen : olive-brown rings on 

 dorsum in contact with front margins of segments, but leaving 

 well-marked hind borders of smoke-grey, and usually a 

 smoke-grey median stripe ; venter light grey, hind margins 

 of segments cream-coloured. Wings with the darker ground- 

 colour very pale, markings of the usual type ; extreme tips, 

 from end of second vein to that of main stem of third, with 

 a milky border, in connexion with sinuous mark running 

 down from end of second vein ; markings rather coarse, 

 more or less distinct rosettes in the usual places — round 

 fork of third vein and ends of discal and basal cells ; 

 markings running obliquely across posterior cells and ending 

 on hind border immediately behind terminations of veins ; 

 two milky marks across discal cell, and usually two across 

 each basal cell ; the two latter markings are continued more 

 or less distinctly across the anal and axillary cells ; medias- 

 tinal (or auxiliary) and first longitudinal veins oehraceous ; 

 veins bounding distal extremities of both basal cells and 

 base of upper branch of third longitudinal vein infuscated ; 

 stigma short, light brown, sometimes paler. Halteres straw- 

 yellow, knob brown or brownish above and below. Legs : 

 coxjc clothed with whitish hair, front coxa; whitish grey, 

 middle and hind coxic dark grey; femora oehraceous buff ; 

 til)i;c cream-coloured, distal half of front tibi;e dark brown, 

 middle and hind tibiiie with brown i)ands at base, in middle, 

 and at tips ; front tarsi black, middle of hind tarsi brown, 

 basal two thirds of first joints of middle tarsi, basal half of 

 first joints of hind tarsi cream-coloured. 



