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Genus Wyeomyia. 
by the abdomen having silvery-white lateral spots, which form 
bands apically, and by its black scaly appearance, the white 
abdominal bands being very clear and also the white on the tarsi. 
Some specimens show more abdominal bandings than others. I 
think the white on the mid tarsi is entirely dorsal. The pro¬ 
boscis is very long. They are found in cocoa groves bordering 
the forests, and in the forest amongst the second growth, and do 
not enter houses. 
6. Wyeomyia lunata. n. sp. 
Thorax brown and ferruginous, with brown, flat, spindle-shaped 
scales; pleurae pale, with pale golden sheen; head with golden 
scales in front and behind, and with a semicircular band of black 
upright fork scales across the nape ; metanotum with four chaetae 
in a line. Abdomen brown, with steely reflections, with apical 
pale golden triangular lateral spots to the segments and pale 
golden bands ventrally ; first segment ochraceous, with pale hairs. 
Legs brown; bases and venter of femora yellow; apical fore 
tarsi somewhat of an ochraceous tint, when denuded ochraceous. 
Ungues equal and simple in the 9 • 
9 . Head covered with flat violet-brown scales on the occi¬ 
put, with golden ochraceous scales at the sides and behind ; across 
the back of the head runs a semicircular line of almost black 
forked upright scales, one deep, 
looking like a black curved line 
with a hand-lens—this character 
will at once separate this from all 
other species ; the ochraceous scales 
have a metallic sheen in some 
lights; ejms black; palpi black 
scaled ; antennae dark brown, with 
narrow pale bands ; first basal joint ferruginous; proboscis very 
long, nearly as long as the abdomen, curved downwards, clothed, 
with small dark brown scales, which have a coppery reflection 
on its under-side; apex hairy; clypeus testaceous. 
Thorax dark brown, bright ferruginous in places behind, more 
or less covered with flat spindle-shaped scales, which give it a 
bright brown appearance in certain lights, but under the micro¬ 
scope appear fuscous ; in some specimens the thorax is brown; 
scutellum covered with flat scales, with a purplish-brown tinge in 
the middle, border pale ochraceous-brown; metanotum bright 
Fig. 290. 
Wyeomyia lunata. 
n. sp. 
