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segment ; length of terminal segment doubtful, as one of them is wanting and 

 the other is rendered partly obscure by the superimposed legs, though it is 

 apparently shorter than the corresponding segment in P. minutus. Legs rela- 

 tively short and stout. Wings similar to those of P. minutus, but all the veins 

 are relatively stouter. 



Gold Coast : Salaga, 1911. 



The type and only example" was collected by Dr. G. E. H. Le Fanu, to whom 

 I extend my thanks for giving me the opportunity of examining and describing 

 this interesting new species. 



Phlebotomus squamipleuris, sp. now 



Length, 2*65 mm. ; wing, 1*84 mm. 



Female. Pleurae clothed with large flat mosquito-like scales (fig. Mt). This 

 character alone readily distinguishes this insect from all the other known members 

 of the genus. Colour : integument dull brown (possibly a very variable character 

 in museum specimens). Head and thorax densely hairy, the hairs dusky grey ; 

 abdominal hairs recumbent and similar in colour to those on the thorax ; they 

 are, however, somewhat sparse. Wings beautifully hyaline and, in certain lights, 

 the hairs on the fourth longitudinal vein golden iridescent ; fringe greyish, 

 posteriorly very long and dense. Head, inclusive of clypeus, equal in length to 

 the proboscis, the latter, especially the labium, somewhat slender. Palpi (fig. 1/i) 

 very long and somewhat slender ; third segment one-sixth longer than the 

 second ; fourth scarcely longer than the third ; fifth scarcely twice the length of 

 the fourth ; segments 2-4 inclusive without any marked incrassation ; some of 

 the few remaining scales which clothe the palpi are of great size and broadly 

 lanceolate, but for the most part these organs are denuded in the microscopical 

 preparation. Antennae, with the exception of the first two segments, wanting, 

 but those which remain are somewhat thickly clothed with minute, short hairs. 

 Legs long but fairly stout ; anterior and mid trochanters spinose, the spines short 

 and arranged in groups. Wings decidedly narrow, much more so than in the 

 female of P. papatasii. 



Anglo-Egyptian Sudan : Khartoum, 7 and 8.viii.l0, 2Q Q (H. H. King). 



Phlebotomus papatasii, (Scopoli). 



This species has been received from the following localities : — Anglo- 

 Egyptian Sudan : Tokar, Red Sea Province, 1912 : 8 $ tf , 12 Q Q (11. H. 

 King). Egypt : Cairo (F. C. Willcocks). 



Phlebotomus duboscqui, N.-L. 



Phlebotomus duboscqui, Neveu-Lemaire, Bull. Soc. Zool. de France, XXXI, 

 p. 65, figs. 1-3 (1906). 



* I have recently discovered a small glass tube containing several additional examples of this 

 insect (all ^ ?)• They bear the data : "Caught in sheltered spots of bedroom ; Salaga, Gold 

 Coast, West Africa, 19th June 1911, Dr. G. E. H. Le Fanu." 



