﻿(family chironomidae, subfamily ceratopogoninae), &c. 105 



being most numerous between the anterior branch of the fourth longitudinal vein 

 and the costa ; the branches of the fourth and fifth longitudinal veins each bear a 

 single row of hairs, as do the wing-folds between the rami of the fourth vein and 

 between the posterior branch of the latter and the anterior branch of the fifth 

 longitudinal; the greater part of the proximal portion of the first longitudinal 

 vein bears hairs at intervals in a single row, and the fold in front of the anterior 

 branch of the fourth longitudinal vein, and a portion of the vestige of the seventh 

 longitudinal are also beset with hairs in a single series ; scattered hairs are 

 present in the vicinity of the hind margin of the wing, from the anterior branch 

 of the fourth longitudinal vein to about the middle of the anal lobe, and there are 

 also hairs in a single row on the fifth vein just before its bifurcation ; cross-vein 

 near base of wing blackish, anterior transverse vein and portions of longitudinal 

 veins between it and costa cream-bufF; anterior transverse vein much more 

 oblique, and first basal cell (the cell on the proximal side of the anterior trans- 

 verse vein) much narrower than in C, distinctipennis. Halter es cream-coloured. 

 Legs : femora infuscated (brownish) on distal third, but with a narrow pale band 

 immediately before the dark brown tip ; base of tibiae marked with a narrow 

 pale band (extreme base dark brown), front and middle tibiae beyond basal pale 

 band brownish or brown nearly to the tips, hind tibiae in fully coloured specimens 

 with a more sharply defined brownish or dark brown band on basal half, beyond 

 basal pale band ; extreme tips of hind tibiae clove-brown. 



Anglo-Egyptian Sudan : type and six para-types from Khor Arbat, Red 

 Sea Hills, 8, 9. ix. 1909 (H. H. King). 



So far as it is possible to judge from the description and figure of Culicoides 

 (Ceratopogon) schultzei, Enderlein,* C. kingi, which the present author has much 

 pleasure in naming in honour of its discoverer, is more closely related to this 

 species than to any other yet described. Culicoides schultzei, however, of which 

 the typical specimens ((J and Q) were taken in German South-West Africa 

 (Hinterland of Walfisch Bay), in May, 1905, while apparently agreeing with 

 C. kingi in the essential features of its venatioD, would seem to differ from it in 

 the head, thorax, and legs being darker, and in the hyaline spots and blotches on 

 the wings being less extensive and somewhat different in shape. 



Genus JOHANNSENIELLA, Will. 



Johannseniella fulvithorax, sp. n. 



Q. — Length (2 specimens) 1*25 mm. ; length of wing 1*4 mm. 



Dorsum, of thorax ochraceous-buff, without markings ; abdomen brownish ; wings 

 light drab-grey (iridescent when light falls on them at certain angles), with two large 

 and conspicuous cream-coloured spots on costal border, one spot covering anterior trans- 

 verse and base of third longitudinal veins, and extending from costa to just beyond 



* Zoologische und Anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im Westlichen und 

 Zentralen Sudafrika, ausget'iihrt in den Jahren 1903-1905 .... von Dr. Leonhard 

 Schultze. Erster Band : zweite Lieferung. P. 459, Taf . xix, fig. 2 (Jena : Yerlag von Gustav 

 Fischer. 1908). 



