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A NEW MOSQUITO FROM UGANDA. 
By H. F. CARTER. 
Assistant Entomologist to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. 
Culiciomyia (?) insignis sp. n. 
Characters seen under pocket lens x 16. 
Head black with pale scales; palpi black; proboscis black. Thorax and 
scutellum purplish brown. Abdomen black, with curved apical bands on the 
second, third, fourth and fifth segments and with lateral apical spots on the fifth, 
sixth and seventh segments. Legs black, unbanded. 
Microscopical characters. 
Head black, with white flat scales laterally and creamy white, narrow curved 
scales in the centre and extending towards the nape ; many upright forked scales 
are also present over the whole surface, the lateral posterior ones being some- 
what narrower and black, the rest being broader and with pale apices; a few 
dark bristles project between the eyes. Clypeus deep brown, almost black. 
Palpi and proboscis black. Antennae pale brown. Thorax uniformly purplish 
brown, clothed with narrow curved scales of a rather lighter colour; on the 
anterior margins are several white, curved scales; in the 
centre is a dark line running almost to the scutellum; on 
either side of this line and about half way between it and the 
margins is a single row of bristles ; there are also some rather 
stronger bristles irregularly arranged along the margins, but 
more numerous over the wing-roots. Scutellum with similar 
colouring to that of the thorax, the mid lobe with six bristles 
and the lateral lobes with four. Metanotum dark brown. 
Halteres with pale stems, thickly covered with pale scales, 
the apices with small dark flat scales. Addomen—first segment 
black, bare, except for two small median patches of dark 
flat scales and a number of golden bristles, most of the latter 
arising more or less in the centre and spreading out laterally ; 
second and third segments with black scales and very marked 
apical curved white bands not quite reaching to the lateral 
margins ; fourth segment similar, but the band just reaching the 
edges ; fifth also similar but having in addition small apical lateral 
5 A Fig. 
spots ; sixth and seventh with apical, lateral, spots only ; last  culiciomyia insignis. Carter 
Abdomen of female. 
segment black; venter mostly pale scaled. Legs almost 
black, unbanded ; femora pale ventrally. Wings with the veins clothed with 
brownish scales; the median ones on the subcosta and first longitudinal vein 
being very broad, those on the other veins as in Culex; the lateral scales 
on all the veins short with blunt apices, somewhat resembling those of 
