Genus Reedomyia. 
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Reedomyia neobiannulata. nov. sp. 
Mono. Onlicid. IV., p. 263 (1907), 6 only, Theobald. 
Thorax ornamented with brown and golden scales, the former 
forming two prominent patches in front, edged at the back with 
golden. Head golden in the middle with black and creamy 
patches laterally ; scutellum silvery-white. Abdomen black with 
basal white bands. Legs as in former species. 
9. Head brown with golden curved scales and black 
upright forked scales, then a lateral patch of flat black scales, 
then a patch of yellow flat ones, then a patch of dusky ones; 
some stout black chaetae project forwards ; palpi, proboscis, and 
antennae black. 
Thorax black, clothed with scanty golden narrow-curved 
scales, thickest in front, in the middle and behind two depressed 
darker patches ; chaetae black ; scutellum as in B. bipunctata ; 
metanotum brown. 
Abdomen black with basal white bands and pale golden 
border-bristles ; venter black and creamy. 
Legs much as in the former, but the hind tibial bands small; 
and the hind knee spots not prominent; ungues as in B. bipunctata. 
Wings with a white scaled spot at the base; first fork-cell 
longer and narrower than the second fork-cell, its stem about 
half the length of the cell; stem of the second two-thirds the 
length of the cell; posterior cross-vein about as long as the mid, 
not quite its own length distant from it. 
Length .—3 • 5 to 4 mm. 
£ . Very like 9 ? but the abdominal banding is more pro¬ 
nounced. This I have previously described. The male genitalia 
are just as in the type from Sierra Leone. 
Habitat. —Accra, Obuasi (type 9 ) j Katemas, Bihe, Angola, 
W. Africa (Dr. Creighton Wellman, five 9’s). 
Time of capture. —16. 19. and 20. vi. 08, at Accra; 1. 2. 4. 
and 7. ii. 05, at Bihe. 
Observations. —Taken by Dr. Graham in latrines. Bred from 
pupae in forest pool by Dr. Creighton Wellman. It resembles, 
at first sight, some varieties of the former, but may be told by 
the different venation in the 9 > by the small white patch 
at the base of the costa, by the normally banded abdomen 
and by the very different $ genitalia. Some 9’s show no 
abdominal banding at all, but I am inclined to think these 
