Genus Neomelanoeonion. 
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2. Abdomen of <$ with two well defined sub- 
median black spots at base of 3rd seg¬ 
ment, traces on 2nd, 4th ; 5th and 6th 
with a basal band of pale yellow. palpate. Newsfcead. 
AA. Thorax adorned. 
3. Thorax rich brown with a pale line run¬ 
ning around the edge from the wings 
forwards and in front; abdomen black 
segments 2 to 4 with basal white bands, 
rest with basal lateral white spots. chaetoventralis. n. sp. 
Neomelanoconion rima. Theobald (1907). 
Culex rima. Theobald (1907). 
Mono. Oulicid. II., 327 (1901) ; ibid. III., 240 (1903) ; ibid. IV., 514 (1907),. 
Theobald ; Colonial Off. Rep. 
Old Calabar ; Lagos. 
Additional locality. —Obuasi, Ashanti (Graham); caught in 
bush. 
Time of capture. —1. x. 07 (Obuasi). 
Type in the British Museum. 
INeomelafoconxon palpale. ISTewstead (1907). 
Anns. Trop. Med. and Parasit. I., No. 1, 31 (1907). 
Uniformly brown. Antennae densely plumose ; hairs smoky- 
brown with the apical portions grey; segments clothed with 
minute white scales ; nodes black. 
“ $. Palpi long, dark brown, with a few scattered blackish- 
brown scales ; apex faintly clavate and densely clothed with long 
brown hairs, more especially so at the sides, where they form a 
long continuous fringe. Proboscis straight, pale brown, clothed 
with dark brown scales ; apex extending to base of apical seg¬ 
ment of antennae. Central area of head clothed with narrow- 
curved pale golden-yellow scales ; intermixed at the sides with 
long flat dusky-brown scales; sides with flat dark brown scales 
intermixed with a few yellow and dull cream-coloured ones ; nape 
with a few small upright forked black scales. Mesothorax (partly 
denuded) and scutellum with narrow-curved pale golden-yellow 
scales; metanotum nude; prothoracic lobes denuded; pleurae 
with small dull cream-coloured scales. Halteres pale ochreous 
basally, knobs pale brown with a few small flat brownish scales. 
Abdomen when denuded almost black; scales pale brown, 
with faint dull greenish-blue and dull coppery reflections ; two' 
