Genus Mimomyia. 583 



can at once be told from the two other African Mimomyias by 

 the general brown hue. The female was partly denuded in 

 transit, but some notes sent by Dr. Balfour completed the 

 description. Mr. JSTewstead has given me a $ and $ from a 

 series collected by Drs. Dutton and Todd in the Congo Free 

 State. They differ slightly in regard to the relative lengths of 

 the fork-cells and their stems, the latter being relatively shorter 

 than in the type. The length of the $ palpi also varies, some 

 being no more than half the length of the swollen proboscis. 



Mimomyia splendens. Theobald (1903). 



Mono. Culicid. III., p. 304 (1903); First Eept. Gord. Coll. Well. Labs., 



p. 81 (1905). 



Dr. Balfour records this very marked species from the Sudd 

 country, Bahr-El-Jebel ; the specimen being captured on the 

 steamer. He has not sent me the specimen, but says apart from 

 the features mentioned below-, it entirely agrees with the type, 

 having apple-green scales on the thorax, etc. 



The following differences are pointed out : — " The halteres of 

 a fine lemon yellow ; there is a thick scaling, almost tufting, at 

 the apices of the tibiae with metallic violet scales and metallic 

 violet scales are scattered over the tibiae and some on the coxae." 

 These differences in colour are due probably to Dr. Balfour 

 noting a fresh specimen, whilst mine was some months old. The 

 only important character is the trace of tibial tufting, but if only 

 slight it cannot be taken as a character sufficient to separate the 

 specimen as a new species. 



METANOTOTKICHAE-HETEROPALPAE 



(Metanotum with hairs or ckaetae.) 



HETEROPALPAE. 



{Palpi short in ? , long in $ .) 



The following (p. 584) is Lutz's grouping ; his first sub-family 

 (Hyloconopinae) is the same as my sub-family Trichoprosoponinae, 

 and the Dendrcmyinae of Lutz and the Sabettinae of Blanchard 

 are also synonymous. 



