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Mimomyia circumtestacea. Theobald (1908). 
Third Rep. Well. Res., Labs., 264 (1908), Theobald. 
Head dark brown; thorax dark brown in the middle, with a 
pale yellowish testaceous border surrounding it at the sides and 
front and to some extent behind. Abdomen brown, with traces 
of pale spots at the sides near base of segments, most prominent 
on basal segments. Legs brown. Fork-cells in female wings 
about same length and width, the stems not quite as long as the 
cells, 
9 . Head deep brown, clothed with deep ochreous brown 
flat scales and some deep brown chaetae, the scales are ochreous 
in some lights, two long ones between the eyes ; antennae pilose, 
very long and thin, deep brown, including the basal segment; 
Fig. 227. 
Mimomyia circumtestacea. Theobald. ? head. 
second segment of antennae very long as in Deinocerites; 
proboscis deep brown, hairy, darkest at the slightly swollen apex, 
not quite so long as the antennae; clypeus deep brown ; palpi, 
very small, brown scaled, with traces of ochreous reflections 
towards the tips. 
Thorax deep shiny brown in the middle, with a broad pale 
yellowish testaceous border around the sides and in front, with 
scattered small bronzy to brown scales on the dark area, pale 
ones on the light border; pale chaetae on the pale area, dark on 
the central area, particularly over the roots of the wings; 
prothoracic lobes pale ; scutellum deep brown with narrow-curved 
small scales, five black chaetae to the mid lobe on the posterior 
border and dark ones on the lateral lobes ; metanotum dark 
brown ; pleurae same pale colour as the border of thorax. 
Abdomen deep brown, with some pale dull creamy scales at 
the sides, forming more or less irregular basal patches most 
