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Genus Culiciomyia. 
then a patch of flat black scales, then flat grey ones and then 
black again; the narrow scaled area with long black upright 
forked scales, and some long forwardly projecting deep brown 
■chaetae near the eye borders. Proboscis coppery brown, darker 
at the apex ; palpi black with some long black chaetae ; clypeus 
black; antennae deep brown, basal segment deep ferruginous, 
dark on each side ; base of the second segment pale ferruginous. 
Thorax black, clothed with small narrow-curved scales, the 
majority rich bronzy brown, giving a general brown appearance, 
with two pale creamy spots right in front, and two on each side 
following it up to base of the wings in a line j two median 
■creamy yellow spots; almost grey scales over the roots of the 
Fig. 101. 
Culiciomyia dalzieli. 9. 
n. sp. Head. 
wings and behind ; some scales here and there over all the 
surface show golden reflections ; dense rich brown chaetae over the 
base of the wings • scutellum bright brown like the back of the 
mesonotum, all three lobes clothed with narrow-curved grey 
scales, border-bristles rich brown ; metanotum deep brown; 
pleurae brown with patches of small flat grey scales. 
Abdomen black with basal white bands and pale border- 
bristles ; venter mostly pale creamy scaled. 
Legs blackish-brown, femora pale brown beneath, and at the 
base, femora and tibiae spinose; a pale knee spot and a pale 
apical spot on the mid and hind tibiae : fore and mid ungues 
■equal, uniserrate, hind equal and pimple. 
Wing scales brown • first fork-cell longer and narrower than 
