Genus Reeclomyia. 257 
I equal and uniserrate, hind equal and simple ; venter of femora, 
pale. 
Wings with brown scales ; first fork-cell a little longer and. 
narrower than the second fork-cell, their bases nearly level, stem 
of the former less than half the length of the cell; stem of the 
latter nearly two-thirds the length of the cell; posterior cross¬ 
vein barely its own length distant from the mid. 
Length. —4*5 mm. 
Habitat. —Obuasi, Ashanti (Dr. Graham). 
Time of capture. —7. viii. 07 ; 30. ix. 07 ; 1 and 2. x. 07 ; 29. 
x. 07 ; 8. xi. 07. 
Observations. — Caught in bush at 11 a.m. Described from 
several $ s. The two thoracic spots are marked, and the male 
genitalia are very marked, as shown in the figure. The scutellum 
is pale in one light, dusky in another. 
Reedomyia alboscutella. Theobald (1905). 
I Lepidotomyia alboscutella. Theobald (1905). 
Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung. III., 80 (1905); Mono. Culicid. IV., 260 (1907), 
Theobald. 
New Guinea. 
Type in the National Museum, Budapest. 
Reedomyia albopunctata. Theobald (1907). 
Mono. Culicid. IV., 262 (1907). 
Sierra Leone. 
Type in the British Museum. 
Reedomyia lowisii. nov. sp. 
Head brown, with a dark and pale patch on each side 
proboscis deep brown, paler in the middle. Thorax rich brown, 
with traces of six yellow spots; silvery puncta on pleurae; 
scutellum silvery-white. Abdomen black with narrow basal 
white bands ; venter yellow with apical black bands. Legs deep 
brown, femora pale beneath and at the base ; a silvery-white 
spot at apices of femora and tibia; parrow yellow basal bands to 
tarsi, last mid and hind tarsals clay-coloured to pale yellow. 
