Genus Myzomyia. 
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Myzomyij! Hispaniola. Theobald (1903). 
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Mono. Cnlicid. III., 49 (1903). 
Spain, Teneriffe. 
Type in the British Museum. 
Myzomyia azriki. Patton (1905). 
Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. XVI., Nov. 2, 632 (1905). 
“ Palpi, three bands, apex black ; thorax light brown, abdomen 
brown, legs dark, no bands. 
9 . Head covered with brown upright forked scales, scattered 
among these are many brown curved scales. A tuft of light 
hairs is seen extending over the clypeus on both 
sides ; antennae are dark, clypeus is light. Palpi 
are lightly scaled, with three white bands, apex 
black. Thorax is brown and covered with brown 
curved scales and hairs, scutellum is dark, with 
bristles along its border, the metanotum is black. 
Abdomen is brown, covered with light hairs, 
there are no scales on the abdomen. Legs are 
brown with pale spots at the joints. 
Wing; costa has live black spots and sub¬ 
costal two. First longitudinal has four spots. 
The second vein has two on its main stem with 
two on the upper and two on the lower branch. 
The third has two spots, one near the base the 
other at the apical end. The fourth vein has 
two black spots on the main stems, one on the 
upper and one on the lower branch. The fifth 
vein has one black spot on the stem, one short 
and one long on the upper and two long spots ^ an a $ palpi of My - 
on the lower branch. The sixth vein has one p a ^n ). azrikl (afte1 ' 
long spot extending almost up to the fringe. The 
fringe is dark with no light areas opposite the termination of the 
veins. 
$. Much lighter than the female. The palpi often have 
four pale areas, the apex often being pale. The wing is much 
lighter than in the female, many of the spots are wanting. The 
legs are brown, fore ungues unequal and uniserrated. 
Habitat .—The Azriki Spring, near D’thala, Aden Hinter¬ 
land (Patton).’ 5 
Fig. 8. 
