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the first two and the fourth spread evenly on to the first long 

 vein \ a few dark spots on the wing field. 



$ . Head deep brown, with dense black upright forked 

 scales, a small patch of white ones in front; proboscis deep 

 brown ; palpi deep brown with four snow-white bands, one 

 apical, the first two rather closer together than the second and 

 third, the third and fourth still further apart, scanty long brown 

 hairs on the last two segments and the apex of the ante-penulti- 

 mate ; antennae with bright flaxen-brown plume-hairs. 



Thorax with a somewhat irregular slaty-grey median area, 

 deep rich brown at the sides and with a median dark line, some 

 long grey narrow-curved scales in front, and numerous pale golden 

 curved hair-like scales over the rest ; scutellum darker in the 

 middle than at the sides, with golden hair-like curved scales and 

 brown border-bristles ; metanotum deep brown. 



Abdomen deep brown, with paler sheen at the bases of the 

 segments, giving a basally pale banded appearance ; clothed with 

 dull golden hairs. 



Legs deep brown, all the femora and tibiae spotted ; first 

 fore tarsal with iive white spots, the second and third with 

 narrow apical pale bands ; first mid tarsal with five pale spots, 

 no banding to the others ; first hind tarsal with six pale spots, 

 the following with narrow apical pale bands. 



Wings with five black costal spots, the first small, the third 

 the largest, the second about the same size as the fourth, the 

 basal one as long as the third, but confined to the costa, the 

 first, second, and fourth spread evenly on to the first long vein. 





Fig. 11. 

 Wing of Myzomyia pyretophoroides. n. sp. <f . 



The third is spread evenly on to the sub-costal, but is broken by 

 a pale spot near the basal end on the first long vein. The costa 

 at the base is black, the area being about as large as the third 

 black spot. Most of the wing dark scaled, but there are pale 

 spots upon the upper branch of the first fork-cell under the pale 



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