Genus Kingia. 
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cell; posterior cross-vein about two and half times its own length 
distant from the mid ; wing scales mostly rounded apically. 
Length. —4*5 to 5 mm. 
Habitat. —Kimba, Congo Free State (ISTewstead); Sudan 
(H. King); Mpurna, Uganda (Sir David Bruce). 
Observations. —I have reproduced Mr. lSTewstead’s description 
of the $ , but in those I have seen there is a double line of flat 
silvery scales in the middle line in front of the yellow median 
line, and I have added certain characters to the wings taken 
from a mounted wing in balsam.* 
The yellow appearance of the head should, as ISTewstead 
points out, at once render the identification of this species easy. 
The Congo Free State specimens were taken in the bush. 
The Sudan specimens were bred by Mr. King from larvae 
taken in a small hole in a tree about a mile inland from Bor. 
The water was very foul and contained a mixed lot of larvae. 
They were collected on May 20th, and most of the adults 
emerged shortly after. The other species taken with it were 
Quasistegomyia dubia and a Oulieiomyia sp. ? Mr. King remarks 
in his field notes sent me that it is “ an exceedingly brilliant 
mosquito when alive, the gold and silver markings showing up 
well. Only the two specimens sent emerged.” 
The 9 typ e i n the Collection of School of Tropical Medicine, 
Liverpool, the $ in the British Museum. 
Kingia annandalei. Theobald (1910). 
Stegomyia annandalei. Theobald (1910). 
Rec. Ind. Mus. IV., 10 (1910). 
Head black with a large median white patch ) palpi black 
with snowy-white apices ; proboscis black. Thorax black-brown 
with a snowy-white patch in front and one over the roots of the 
wings. Abdomen jet black with snowy-white basal bands which 
gradually swell out laterally. Legs black, banded with snowy- 
white, the hind legs with a band at the base of the metatarsal, 
first tar sals and the whole of the third white. 
9 . Head clothed with flat black scales, with a large median 
triangular snowy-white patch and a small dull white lateral 
* Mr. ISTewstead writes me that there are traces of the median anterior 
flat scales on the thorax in the type of Mteocephala, and that he has now 
a better specimen showing this marked feature. 
