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sucker. Dr. Hodges writes that although he had not examined 

 it microscopically, he suspected it to be either a Stegomyia or 

 an Uranotaenia, and pointed out that the silvery spots on the 

 under-side (not venter) of the abdominal segments, together with 

 those on the head and thorax, were characteristic of a new 

 species, and such soon proved to be the case. 



Genus MIMOMYIA. Theobald. 



Mono. Culicid. in., p. 304 (1903); Gen. Ins., Fam. Culicid. p. (1905); 

 First Kept. Gord. Coll. Khart., p. 79 (1905) ; Theobald. 



The female only has so far been described, and in general 

 appearance it resembles an Uranotaenia but the larger fork-cells 

 and narrow-curved scutellar scales will at once separate it. 



Dr. Balfour has recently sent a male which is described here, 

 I feel sure it is the male of the new species recorded. It is one 

 of the most curious mosquitoes seen. The proboscis is much 

 swollen for half its length, the labella small, leaf-like and 

 acuminate, and the palpi long and thin and acuminate, about 

 two-thirds the length of the proboscis. The structure of the 

 palpi would thus place it between the Culicinae and Aedinae. 



Mimomyia uniformis. Theobald. 

 First Kept. Gord. Coll. Well. Labs., p. 79 (1905). 



Head brown with yellowish scales, thorax testaceous with 

 small black scales. Abdomen brown with blackish-brown scales, 

 the apical segments with scattered creamy scales. Legs uniformly 

 brown, femora pale beneath. Wings with a pale spot at their 

 base. 



9 . Head brown, clothed with rather irregular flat creamy 

 scales and some yellow and black upright-forked ones, the latter 

 towards the nape ; antennae brown, basal segment testaceous 

 darker on the inside, remainder deep brown; proboscis brown, 

 swollen apically and the labellae black ; palpi small, testaceous, 

 with black scales above. 



Thorax shiny brown with scattered narrow-curved black 

 scales ; pleurae testaceous ; scutellum bright brown with black 

 narrow-curved scales, four border-bristles to the mid lobe ; meta- 

 notum chestnut-brown with brown scales and with basal bands 



