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Genus Myxosquamus. 
Phagomyia? nigricephala. Theobald (1901). 
Stegomyia nigricephala. Theobald (1901). 
Rep. Liverpool School, Trop. Med. IV., App. (1901); Mono. Culicid. II., 
315 (1901) ; III., 147 (1903), Theobald. 
Bonny; Buguma, Nigeria. 
Type in the British Museum. 
Genus MYXOSQUAMUS. nov. gen. 
Head with rather loosely applied flat scales over most of its 
area, a basal median patch of narrow- 
curved scales, and narrow-curved ones 
around the eyes, thin upright forked 
scales ; palpi short in the 9 > terminal 
segment as long as the rest of the 
palp ; thorax with narrow-curved 
scales ; scutellum with the mid lobe 
clothed with some small, narrow, flat 
scales and narrow-curved ones at the 
hack, sides, and border, lateral lobes 
with rather large narrow-curved scales. 
Wings scales, Taeniorhynclius - like, 
hut smaller. 
This genus can at once be told by the scutellar ornamen¬ 
tation and alar scales. 
Myxosquamus confusus: nov. sp. 
Thorax rich brown with scattered golden scales; head pale 
brown in the middle, a dark patch on each side ; proboscis and 
palpi black ; pleurae bright, pale brown with pale puncta; 
scutellum pale-scaled in certain lights, dark in others. Abdomen 
black with basal pale bands which spread out laterally; venter 
with ochreous basal and brown apical bands. Legs deep brown, 
unbanded, a yellow spot at the apex of the hind tibiae. 
9 . Head black, clothed with flat black scales in front, thin 
narrow-curved pale scales behind, then a patch of flat dull creamy 
scales, still more to the side a patch =of flat dark ones, and then 
pale creamy ones again, narrow-curved golden scales along the 
VOL. v. * Q 
Fig. 92. 
Genus Myxosquamus. nov. gen. 
Head and scutellum. 
