﻿108 EKNEST E. AUSTEN — NOTES ON AFRICAN BLOOD-SUCKING MIDGES, &C. 



abdomen seal-brown, clothed with seal-brown hairs ; legs and their hairy covering 

 ■pale ochre-yellow, front tarsi, tips of hind tarsi, and first joint and tips of three 

 following joints of middle tarsi somewhat infuscated, at least when viewed from 

 certain directions. 



Head dark olive-brown, clothed on vertex with yellowish hairs, and elsewhere 

 above with clove-brown or blackish hairs ; palpi and proboscis clove-brown, 

 former clothed with similarly coloured hair ; antennae clothed partly with 

 yellowish partly with blackish hairs, verticillate hairs blackish, first two joints 

 of antennae sepia-coloured or dark mummy-brown, next eight joints paler flight 

 raw-umber-coloured), last five joints mummy-brown. Thorax: metanotum clove- 

 brown ; pleurae and pectus dark sepia-coloured, upper margin of former cream- 

 coloured. Abdomen : hind margins of dorsal scutes of second to sixth segments 

 inclusive sparsely fringed with short, pale yellow hairs ; lateral margins of same 

 segments and entire ventral surface (except perhaps at base) thickly clothed with 

 bright Naples-yellow hairs. Wings strongly iridescent, thickly clothed with dark 

 brown hairs ; portion of costa from near base of wing to end of third longitu- 

 dinal vein, as well as latter vein itself and terminal portion of first longitudinal 

 sepia-coloured, darker than remaining veins or portions of veins, and clothed with 

 longer and darker hair than is elsewhere present on the wings, so that under a 

 hand-lens this portion of the costa has a thickened appearance. Halteres 

 primrose-yellow. 



Southern Nigeria: Yaba, Lagos, 28.vi.1909, "caught in veranda of 

 bungalow, 10.0 p.m." (Dr. W. M. Graham, W.A.M.S.) 



The abdomen of the type of this species is distended beneath, perhaps with 

 blood. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE I. 



Fig. 1. — Wing of Cullcoides distinctipennis, Austen, x 85. 



2. „ „ „ neavei, ,, x 80. 



3. ,, ,, „ kingi, „ x about 90. 



