Genus Culiciomyia. 233 
There are traces of dull pale scales at the sides of the 
abdomen, but only seen in certain lights. 
Type in the British Museum. 
Culiciomyia nigerrima. nov. sp. 
Head blackish-brown with paler sides and narrow eye border ; 
palpi and proboscis dark brown. Thorax deep-brown. Abdomen 
black with very narrow basal white bands. Legs blackish- 
brown ; unbanded. Wings with dark brown scales. 
5. Head black, with narrow-curved pale scales behind, 
black flat scales .around the front and sides, some pale ones 
bordering the eyes and other pale flat scales at the sides ; a few 
scattered black upright forked scales and black chaetae; 
antennae deep brown : clypeus, proboscis and palpi black. 
Thorax black, with small narrow-curved bronzy scales and 
jet black chaetae ; scute] 1 urn brown with narrow-curved dull 
golden scales ; metanotum black. ■ 
Abdomen black and black scaled, with pale creamy basal 
bands on the fourth, fifth and sixth segments and pallid border- 
bristles, the seventh with white basal lateral spots ; venter black 
with some pallid scales. 
Legs black, unhanded; venter of femora and tibiae pale, also 
venter of metatarsi to some extent; ungues small equal and 
simple. 
Wings with rather short fork-cells, the first fork-cell longer 
but no narrower than the second, its base scarcely nearer the 
Mg. 100. 
Wing of Culiciomyia nigerrima. $. . n. sp. 
base of the wing, its stem about half the length of the cell; 
stem of the second fork-cell about two-thirds the length of the 
