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brown at the apices, forming pale knee spots; tibio-tarsal articulations 
pale ; last three segments of tarsi bronzy-ochreous. 
Length 2-50 mm. 
Male. Head with a well-defined median, long, angular patch of 
narrow-curved creamy scales, no regular series as in the female; sides 
broadly clothed with large, rather loose, flat, cream-coloured scales, and 
a rather large lateral patch of brown ones ; a few short upright forked 
ones at the nape, black, and a few, very short, creamy ones towards 
the front of the head. Antennae densely plumose, Iiairs grey with a 
few black ones intermixed. Palpi strongly clavate, with a pale 
cream-coloured band at the anterior end of the first long segment 
the remaining portion of the segment and the basal half of the 
succeeding one with very dark brown, almost black scales; apical 
I'lG. 7 .—Boycia mimomyiaformis. WlNG OK FEMALE. x 40. 
segment with short stiff yellow bristles. Proboscis swollen apically, 
dark brown; labella paler, especially at the tips. Mesothorax with 
the narrow-curved scales dusky yellow intermixed with grey and a 
few black ones, and there are two ill-defined lateral black spots in 
front of the wings ; space between the wings denuded, dark brown ; 
pleurae and legs as in the $. Wings with pale brown scales; 
anterior forked vein slightly shorter than the first posterior, the latter 
much the widest; both are relatively short Abdomen as in the ? 
but the bands are a little more pronounced. 
Localities: -AH our specimens of this mosquito were bred from 
larvae caught at Boma (Oct.) in a papyrus swamp and among the 
aquatic plants of a small stream. 
