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scales, and a rather large lateral patch of brown ones; a few 
short upright forked ones at the nape, black, and a few, very 
short, creamy ones towards the front of the head. 
Antennae densely plumose, hairs grey with a few black ones 
intermixed. Palpi strongly clavate 
with a pale cream-coloured band 
at the anterior end of the first 
long segment, the remaining por¬ 
tion of the segment and the basal 
half of the succeeding one with 
very dark brown, almost black 
scales; apical segment with short 
stiff yellow bristles. Proboscis 
swollen apically, dark brown; la- 
bella paler especially at the tips. 
Mesothorax with the narrow-cur¬ 
ved scales dusky-yellow inter¬ 
mixed with grey and a few 
black ones, and there are two 
ill - defined lateral black spots 
in front of the wings. Space 
between the wings denuded, 
dark brown; pleurae and legs 
as in the 9 . 
Wings with pale brown scales ; 
anterior forked vein slightly 
shorter than the first posterior, the Boycia mimomyiaformis. S- Newstead. 
Palp and proboscis (after Newstead). 
latter much the widest, both are 
relatively short. Abdomen as in the 9 > but the bands are a 
little more pronounced.” 
Habitat. —Boma, Congo Free State. 
Observations .—“ All the specimens [in the School of Tropical 
Medicine at Liverpool] were bred from larvae found in a papyrus 
swamp and among the aquatic plants of a small stream.” 
Genus BATHOSOMYIA. nov. gen. 
Head clothed with loose flat scales, except for a few small 
narrow-curved ones in the middle at the base. Thorax with 
rather large narrow-curved scales, ’also the scutellum, palpi of 
