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that the pleurae were partly dark, but this is the case in the types. There are 

 no white scales on the wing-veins. 

 Gambia ; S. Nigeria ; Ashanti. 



10. U. candidipes, nom. n. 



U. nivipous, Theo., Entomologist XLV, p. 93 (1912), — nee U. (Anisoche- 

 leomyia) nivipes, Theo., Entomologist, XXXVIII, p. 53 (1905). 



" O . Head deep brown, with golden forked scales ; palpi and proboscis deep 

 brown. Thorax rich brown, with long dark chaetae, pleurae pale ochreous ; 

 scutellum dusky brown, with dark border bristles. Abdomen black, with apical 

 creamy median areas, venter pale creamy white. Legs deep brown, pale at the 

 base, last two hind tarsi and most of the third creamy white ; the last tarsals of 

 the other legs show pale reflections. Wings with normal venation, but in certain 

 lights subcostal, second, and fourth veins show brilliant violet reflections under 

 the microscope. Length 4 mm. 



" Habitat. — Onderstepoort, Transvaal. 



" Observations. — Described from a single perfect female sent me by Dr. Theiler. 

 It comes nearest Uranotaenia apicotaeniata, Theob., but can at once be told by 

 the dark scaled head and the absence of pale apical bands on the first, second and 

 third hind tarsals, and on the second tarsals of the fore and mid legs " (Theobald). 



11. U. fusca, Theo., Mon. Cul. IV, p. 584 (1907). 



Ficalbia inornata, Theo., Entomologist, XLI, p. 108 (1908). 

 nee Uranotaenia fusca, Leic, Stud. Inst. Med. Res., Fed. Malay States, 

 III, iii, p. 227 (1908). 

 From the descriptions and from what is left of the types, there seems to be no 

 character by which F. inornata can be distinguished from U. fusca. The types 

 have apparently always been in very bad condition. A good series of this 

 species has recently been received at the British Museum from Uganda (Capt. 

 A. D. Fraser). The spot of blue scales on the pleurae is quite conspicuous, and 

 so are the blue prothoracic lobes. The abdomen is uniformly deep blackish 

 brown above, the venter uniformly whitish ochreous. The first fork-cell is longer 

 than usual in this genus, but still distinctly shorter than the second. The male 

 claws are quite normal : the inner one on the front feet is much thickened in 

 both sexes, and in the female this is also the case on the mid tarsi. 

 Uganda ; Sierra Leone ; Transvaal. 



12. U. mashonaensis, Theo., Mon. Cul. II, p. 259 (1901). 

 Mimomyia mashonaensis, Theo., Mon. Cul. Ill, p. 306 (1903). 

 Uranotaenia bimaculata, Theo., Mon. Cul. V, p. 522 (1910). 



Theobald gave no reason for transferring this species to Mimomyia, to which 

 genus it certainly does not belong, being an almost typical Uranotaenia. The 

 first fork-cell is rather longer than in most Uranotaenia, this character being- 

 shared by U. annulata, fU. candidipes, U. fusca, U. ornata, and U. nigripes. It 

 is noticeable that these six species are also abnormal in having no flat blue scales 

 on the mesonotum. In his new genus Pseudoficalbia, Theobald includes Z7. fusca 

 (as F. inornata) and U. nigripes (which he has re-described from the Seychelles 

 under two new specific names), and so Pseudoficalbia may be taken as applying to 

 this section of Uranotaenia, though in the present writer's opinion the name 



