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however, the insect possesses well-marked specific characters and can 
easily be recognised from any other known species by its uniform 
dark brown colour. 
Locality : — Taken at Nouvelle Anvers, on August 14th, 1904 
Mimomyia malfeyti, n. sp. (Newstead) 
(PI. i. figs. 1-3) 
Head dark brown, with pale ochreous scales. Thorax dark brown, 
with bright blue reflections and clothed with long backward-curved 
bristles; pleurae pale ochreous. Abdomen brown; apical segment 
paler ; venter ochreous. Legs dark brown, with pale ochreous femora 
Wings with a pale spot at the base. 
FEMALE. Head brown, covered with rather loose, flat, cream 
coloured scales and a napal group of black, upright forked one 
Antennae deep brown; basal segment paler. Proboscis swollen 
apically, but much less so than in the 3 > dark brown ; labella, dull 
ochreous. Thorax dark brown, shining, with blue reflections in 
Fig 4. —Mimomyia malfeyti. Wing ok Femalk. x 4° 
certain lights , but this character is much less evident under the 
microscope than under a pocket lens; hairs dense and long, especially 
at the sides above the pleurae; there are also one dorsal and two, 
more or less distinct, sub-dorsal rows of shorter hairs between which 
is a double series of minute, narrow-curved, ochreous scales, 
which are very difficult to see and are often wanting ; scutellum with 
four or five narrow-curved, almost hair-like, black scales f, lten 
wanting; metanotum pale brown, nude. Wings with brown scales 
and a basal, pale, nude patch ; median vein scales in a double row mi 
the subcostal and first longitudinal vein for two-thirds of the basal 
