304 A Monograph of Culicidae. 
Genus 37. MIMOMYIA. nov. gen. 
Allied to Uranctaenia. 
Head clothed with flat scales and somewhat upright forked 
ones, thorax with narrow-curved scales, no flat ones ; scutellum 
with narrow-curved scales only. Fork-cells very small, but 
rather larger than in Uranotaenia, the first sub-marginal smaller 
than the second posterior, and the supernumerary cross-vein 
nearer the base of the wing than the mid cross-vein; scales 
short and rather broad along the veins, with lateral clavate 
scales to the veins here and there. No lines of flat metallic 
scales at the base of the wings. 
The genus is closely related to Uranotaenia, but can at once 
be told by the absence of flat scutellar scales, the uneven cross- 
veins and the slightly larger fork-cells, and the absence of 
metallic flat scales on the mesothorax. 
The specimens I have described as U. Mashonaensis evidently 
come in this genus, but the scutellum is too much rubbed to 
say definitely. The original description reads, ‘“‘scutellum with 
narrow curved scales.” It thus evidently comes in this genus, 
and there is also a resemblance in the fork-cells. 
MIMOMYIA SPLENDENS. nh. sp. 
Head golden yellow, proboscis yellow, with black apex ; thorax 
with metallic apple-green scales; abdomen deep violet brown, 
base and apex ochraceous and with traces of narrow pale basal 
lines to the segments. Legs with the femora ochraceous, apex 
dark, and with mauve spots in certain lights, rest of the legs 
brown, darkest on the tarsi. Wings brown, ochraceous at the 
base. 
@. Head covered with flat golden scales, with several small 
and two prominent black bristles projecting forwards, and with 
four golden yellow ones in front between the antennae ; antennae 
brown, basal and next two joints ferruginous; proboscis deep 
ochraceous, with a black swollen apex; palpi prominent, with 
black scales. 
Thorax black, with narrow-curved apple-green scales, all 
sloping backwards; the scales are of peculiar form, being abruptly 
truncated ; scutellum black, with similar scales and six large and 
