Genus Myzomyia. 43 



3. Legs unbanded. 



a. Apex of palpi white and ringed. 

 3 pale palpal bands. 



3rd long vein mostly yellow UstonL List on. 



3rd long vein dark. 



Several fringe spots leptomeres. Theobald. 



Two fringe spots culicifacies. Giles. 



No fringe spots rhodesiensis. Theobald. 



£• Apex of palpi white only nili. Theobald. 



y, Apex of palpi black. 



Black apex narrow turkhudi. Liston. 



Black apex broad hispaniola. Theobald. 



B. Proboscis banded. 



Legs unspotted albirostris. Theobald. 



Legs spotted thomtonii. Ludlow. 



Myzomyia nili. Theobald (1904). 

 First Rept. Gord. Coll. Well. Labs., p. 65 (1904). 



Related to Myzomyia funesta, Giles, but easily told by its 

 much darker hue than in the dark varieties of funesta, by the 

 palpi having one small apical pale band 

 only, and by the palpi and the proboscis 

 being much shorter than the body. 



$ . Head deep brown with grey upright 

 forked- scales in the middle with a slight 

 creamy hue, dusky ones at the sides, a 

 creamy white tuft of hair and scales pro- 

 jecting forwards between the eyes ; antennae 

 deep brown with brown hairs ; palpi thin, as 

 long as the proboscis covered with black 

 scales, the apex only pale ; clypeus black 

 with a sulcus across the middle ; proboscis 

 thin and black, apex acuminate and testa- 

 ceous with a few black hairs ; proboscis and 

 palpi not nearly as long as the body. 



Thorax dull, pale fawn colour in the 

 middle, dark brown at the sides, covered 

 with scattered pale golden curved hair-like 

 scales, a tuft of pale creamy narrow-curved 

 ones in front projecting over the head ; scutellum pale brown 

 with many brown border-bristles ; metanotum brown ; pleurae 

 pale brown with a greenish tinge. Abdomen black with rich 

 brown hairs. 



Fig. 8. 



A. Myzomyia funesta. 

 Giles ; B. M. nili. Theob. 



Apex of ? antennae. 



