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covered with creamy-white scales ; metanotum nude. Legs 
uniformly dark brown, with paler coppery reflections, nodes pale 
brown. Wings with all the veins clothed with brown scales • 
fringe paler; first sub-marginal cell narrower than the second 
Fig. 234. 
Head of Mimomyia africana. ' ? (after Newstead). 
posterior cell; posterior cross-vein about its own length distant 
from the mid cross-vein. 
Length about 3'50 mm. 
Described from a single female which, unfortunately, has the 
abdomen and tip of the proboscis imperfect. It can be recog¬ 
nised from any other known species by its uniform dark brown 
colour. 
Habitat .—Xouvelle Anvers, Congo Free State, August 14th, 
1904.” 
Type, in the School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool. 
Mimomyia mashofaensib. Theobald (1901). 
Uranotaenia mashonaensis. Theobald (1901). 
Mono. CulieicL II., 259 (1901), 
Salisbury, Mashonaland. 
Type in the British Museum. 
