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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
are only a variety. The type (£) was described from Sierra 
Leone as the $ of It. biannulata. 
Specimens, from Obnasi, were taken in bush path by Dr. 
Graham, 15. xi. 07 ; 1. x. 07 ; 7. and 11. viii. 07. 
Reedomyia bipunctata. nov. sp. 
Thorax brown with two yellow spots on the mesothorax, two 
small patches in front, and creamy yellow scaled scutellum. Legs 
unbanded, deep brown, pale on under side of femora, apex of 
femora with small pale spot, a larger one at apex of hind tibiae, 
creamy white. Abdomen deep brown, unbanded, with small basal 
white lateral spots. 
9 • Head with dull golden narrow-curved scales at the back, 
dark ones in front, and golden ones around the eyes, flat, dark 
Eig. 120. 
Wing of Reedomyia bipunctata. $. n. sp. 
and then creamy lateral ones, black upright forked scales and 
black chaetae ; clypeus and proboscis and palpi black; antennae 
lack. 
Thorax rich bright brown with small narrow-curved bronzy 
scales, two pronounced yellow spots of larger curved scales in the 
middle, a small patch on each side right in front, and a patch in 
front of the roots of each wing, chaetae dark brown ; scutellum 
with small, flat, pale yellowish scales when looked at with the 
head to the light, quite dusky when in the reverse direction ; 
pleurae brown with four white spots * metanotum deep brown. 
Abdomen deep dusky brown to black, with small white basal 
lateral spots, and basal white bands to the venter. 
Legs deep brown, unbanded, but in the hind legs there is a 
prominent creamy band at thp apex of the tibiae and a smaller 
one on the mid legs, knee spots creamy; fore and mid ungues 
