Genus Mimomyia . 
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appearance; apical segment paler; venter ochreous, with four or 
five dark marginal triangular spots. 
Legs uniformly brown with pale reflections, except the under 
side and basal half of the femora, which are pale ochreous ; all 
the articulations are pale. 
Length.—2 m 50 mm. 
<£ . Head with dusky ochreous scales. Thorax as in the ; 
metanotum darker. Antennae densely plumose, dusky brown; 
basal segment paler. Proboscis much 
swollen from beyond the middle api- 
cally; clothed with dusky ochreous 
scales ; labella slightly darker. Palpi 
long, thin, apparently of three equal 
segments, tip reaching just beyond tire 
base of the swollen portion of the 
proboscis. Abdomen as in the $ , but 
if anything more distinctly mottled. 
Anterior tibiae with a long, outer, 
simple spine and an inner, tridentate, 
falcate spine. Genital armature with 
basal segment stout; arising from its 
inner surface at the base are four long 
spinose hairs; second segment about 
equal in length to the first; terminal 
claw short; harpes relatively short, with one long and two 
minute spines. 
Length .—2 to 2*5 mm. 
Habitat. —Boma, Congo Free State.” 
Type in the School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool. 
Fig. 233. 
Male genitalia of Mimomyia 
malfeyti. Newstead. 
Mimomyia africana. Newstead (1907). 
Anns. Trop. Med. and Parasit. I., No. 1, 29 (1907), Newstead. 
“ Uniformly dark brown ; legs paler. 
9 . Head very dark brown, completely covered with flat 
paler brown scales, no upright forked ones visible; antennae 
dusky ochreous, basal segment darker and not scaled. Palpi 
very short, clothed with very dark brown scales. Proboscis 
(imperfect) dark brown. Thorax very dark brown, slightly 
shiny, with numerous long bristles and minute narrow-curved 
scales of the same colour as the cuticle; scutellum with a few 
narrow-curved scales ; pleurae with a dark brown central area 
