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by Dr. Graham as distinct from M ’ africanus, Theob. The'main 
features are the thin ochreous fore and mid metatarsi and tarsi,, 
and the white and ochreous hind tarsi; also the long white-scaled, 
palpi, and the wing fringe with pale spots between the veins. 
Its general dark appearance and yellow fore and mid feet at once 
distinguish it. 
Dr. Graham in his notes refers to it as taken in dense bush, 
north of Obuasi, flying over swampy ground in the day time. 
Mucidus sudanensis. Theobald (1908). 
Third Keport, G-ord, doll., Well. Labs. Khartoum, 252 (1908). 
Thorax yellowish-brown with patches of shaggy grey scales. 
Abdomen bright ochreous with basal median and lateral white 
shaggy patches ; the median patches being large on the last three- 
segments. Legs pale ochreous with bands of dark tipped and 
white outstanding scales; the femora with a white band towards- 
the apex and one at the tip; tibiae with white basal, median 
and apical bands ; metatarsi with white basal and median bands ;. 
tarsi with white basal bands. Ungues equal thick and serrated. 
Wings with eight pale areas to the fringe. 
9 . Head brown with scattered loose white scales and a 
median broad line of twisted white scales : bright ochreous thin 
upright forked scales and golden hairs, a prominent border of 
narrow-curved creamy scales around the eyes. Antennae bright 
ochreous, the basal segment with small white scales, the nodes 
dusky and also the verticillate hairs; frons and elypeus bright 
ochreous; palpi ochreous with large scattered loose white and 
dusky tipped scales, apices entirely white scaled ; eyes dark and 
metallic brassy; proboscis ochreous with loose dusky tipped 
scales, except at the apex where they are snow-white. 
Thorax brownish with very fine narrow-curved white scales 
in front, becoming dull yellowish behind; a small median patch 
of white twisted scales near the head and a patch on each side- 
just behind it, two other pairs of patches further back almost 
continuous, and a dense tuft of long white thin-stalked scales 
projecting outwards in front of the wings, a few forming a- 
median white line, more in number where it reaches the space 
before the scutellum, which has white scales on each side of it; 
some very small white scales forming a line on each side behind 
the wings; chaetae golden brown, paler at the tips; scutellum 
with a tangled mass of long twisted white scales and long thin 
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