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reflections, and a pale spot at the apex of the hind femora 
and tibiae ; fore and mid ungues equal and uniserrate; chaetae 
on the femora and metatarsi dark, on the tibiae golden. 
Wings with the first fork-cell longer and a little narrower 
than the second, its base, if anything, a little nearer the apex 
of the wing, its stem a little less than one-half the length of the 
Fig. 127, 
Wing of Stenoscutus africanus <j?. n. sp. 
cell, stem of the second fork-cell also a little more than one-half 
the length of the cell; posterior cross-vein about its own length 
distant from the mid. Halteres dull ochreous. 
Length .—3 * 5 mm. 
Habitat. —Obuasi, Ashanti (Dr. Graham). 
Time of capture. —11. viii. 07 and 2. x. 07. 
Observations .—Described from two 9’ s caught in the bush. 
This species, the only one in the genus, can at once be told by 
the generic characters of the scutellar scales ; the thorax in one 
shows distinct grouping of the golden scales. 
Type in the British Museum. 
Genus BOYCIA. Newstead (1907). 
Anns. Trop. Med. and Parasit. I., No. 1, 33 (1907). 
“ Head with a median area of narrow-curved scales, flat, 
loose, lateral ones, and numerous upright forked ones. Thorax 
and scutellum with narrow-curved scales. Wings with the fork- 
cells relatively short; anterior forked vein slightly shorter than 
the first posterior • scales resembling those of Mimomyia. Palpi 
short in the 9 > long and clavate in the $. Proboscis swollen 
at the tip in both sexes. The narrow-curved scales in the mid- 
region of the head are fewer ( in the 9 than in the £; and, in 
the former, the central ones are arranged in two distinct lines, 
