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lateral pairs ; scntellum pale. Abdomen with apical silvery patches. Legs 
spotted. 
5 . Head brown with narrow-curved silvery grey scales, dense 
along the borders of the eyes, flat grey lateral ones and numerous black 
upright forked scales ; palpi testaceous with brown scales and snowy 
white apex ; clypeus bright brown ; proboscis brown scaled, the middle 
with a broad yellow scaled band, a few pale scales at the apex; antennæ 
deep brown, with narroAV pale bands at the verticills, basal joint bright 
ochreous, second joint less so with black scales; the frons distinctly pro¬ 
duced between the antennæ as in Rhynchomyia. 
Thorax deep brown with small narrow-curved rich bright brown 
scales, with three silvery white scaled spots in front near the neck and 
two lateral pairs behind, there are also scattered silvery scales over and 
behind the root of the wings and around the bare space in front of the 
scutellum, bristles dense, deep brown and black ; scutellum brown, the 
mid lobe very large and prominent, densely clothed with narrow-curved 
dull silvery scales, border-bristles long, black, six to the mid lobe ; meta- 
notum deep brown; pleuræ brown with a patch of flat silvery white 
scales. 
Abdomen deep brown, the two basal segments with median yellow 
scaled spots, apical lateral silvery white spots to the segments which on 
the last two spread out on to the dorsum so that most of the surface is 
white scaled ; posterior border-bristles golden brown ; venter with the 
segments basally ochreous, white apically. 
Legs brown, spotted and banded with white as follows : fore femora 
with five white spots on one side, two on the other, apex white, base 
yellowish, fore tibiæ with five white spots and a broad yellow apex; 
metatarsi with a median white spot, first and second tarsals with a dor¬ 
sal basal white spot, last two segments ochreous brown, unspotted; mid 
femora and tibiæ the same and also the tarsi ; hind similar but with 
traces of pale basal spots on all the tarsi ; ungues equal and simple. 
Wings with brown and yellow scales ; fork-cells long, the first sub¬ 
marginal a little longer and slightly narrower than the second posterior, 
its base a little nearer the apex of the wing, its stem more than half the 
length of the cell, stem of the second posterior cell more than half the 
length of the cell ; posterior cross-vein nearly three times its length 
distant from the mid ; border-scales small (not Mansonia-like). 
Length : 4*5 mm. 
Habitat: Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen, New Guinea (Bibó, 1901). 
Time of capture : November. 
Observations. Closely related to M. annulipes Walk, but the thorax 
