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differs from the following in its blackish brown colour and the longer second 

 joint of the female antennae. There is no doubt about the synonymy. 

 S. Nigeria ; Congo ; Uganda. 



4. I. Ulliformis, Theo. (Mimomyia), First Kept. Welle. Lab, p. 80 (1904). 



The male type has disappeared from the Museum collection. Front of 

 mesonotum with bluish sub-metallic sheen ; brown patches on front of pleurae, 

 iridescent grey when viewed from in front ; a median and two posterior longi- 

 tudinal dark patches on mesonotum, not very distinct. 



Sudan ; Lado Enclave ; Nyasaland (Upper Shire, II, viii, 1911, Prof. R. 



New stead), —- 



Genus Harpagomtia, Meij. 



Tijd. v. Ent., LII, p. 165 (1909). 

 Malaya, Leic, Stud. Inst. Med. Research, Fed. Malay States, III, iii, 

 p. 258 (1908) (nee Malaia, Heller 1891). 



The name Malaya cannot stand, since Malaia has already been used for a 

 genus of beetles. 



The following is Leicester's diagnosis of the genus : 



" This genus is founded on the characters of only one specimen, but it is of so 

 remarkable an appearance as to fully warrant a new genus. Proboscis with a 

 distinct joint, the apical portion much swollen and clad with long hairs. Head 

 clothed with large racquet-shaped scales ; mesonotum with narrow curved scales ; 

 scutellum with racquet-shaped scales. Metanotum with scales (?). Wings with 

 fork-cells moderate length and clavate lateral scales. Malaya genurostris" 

 Leicester remarks, " I cannot be sure whether the scales seen on the mesonotum 

 [meaning metanotum] really belong to it or have been knocked on to it." 

 Doubtless the latter supposition is the true one. 



Mr. Carter first suggested to me that this genus was probably the same as 

 Harpagomyia, and he is certainly correct. Leicester mentions the elongated 

 clypeus in his description of the species. 



Miss Ludlow (Psyche, XVIII, p. 132, 1911) raises this genus to subfamily 

 rank, on account of the non-development of the biting parts of the proboscis, and 

 (without giving any reason for so doing) associates with it Hodgesia, a blood- 

 sucking genus. 



Two African species have been described. 



1. H. trichorostris, Theo., Mon. Cul. V, p. 548 (1910). 



A median line of flat, bluish silvery scales on the mesonotum ; proboscis 

 almost all dark. 

 Ashanti. 



2. H. taeniarostris, Theo., Novae Culicidae, I, p. 34 (1911). 



No median line of flat scales on the thorax. Proboscis of the type specimen 

 with the basal half pale, but in two other specimens it is almost all dark. 

 Uganda. 



Tribe Sabethini. 



Metanotum bearing a tuft of long bristles near its posterior end. Anal 

 segment of larva without median ventral brush. 



