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black and white flat scales and brown border-bristles; metanotum black; prothoracic lobes with flat white scales; pleure deep brown with patches of flat white scales.
Abdomen deep brownish black, the fifth to seventh segments with large, silvery white, basal patches, and a small one on the eighth segment; border-bristles dark; each segment with basal, white, lateral patches, large on basal segments, becoming linear on the apical ones, venter dark with broad, basal, white bands.
Legs dark with basal banding; the fore and mid metatarsi and first tarsal segments with basal creamy bands; the fore femora with traces of white scales. near the apex forming a spot, very prominent on mid femora, apex white especially in the mid legs, paler scales below at the base; hind femora white below at the base and apex; metatarsi and first two tarsi with basal white bands, nearly all the third tarsals white, apical one black; ungues of fore and mid legs equal and uniserrate, hind equal and simple.
Wings with the first submarginal cell longer and narrower than the second posterior cell, its base nearer the base of the wing, its stem about one-third the length of the cell, stem of the second posterior rather more than half the length of the cell; posterior cross-vein about three times its own length distant from the mid.
Halteres with base of stems ferruginous, apex fuscous and also knob. Length: 4 mm.
Time of capture: 7, viii., '07, and 9, ix., '07.
Habitat: Obuasi and Kumasi.
Observations: Two 9's both taken in bush, one at 5 p.m. at Kumasi. Dr. Graham says specimens taken in bush paths outside Obuasi and outside Kumasi in August and October, from 2 to 5 p.m. Described from a perfect ?. The marked thoracic ornamentation and the leg banding combined will at once separate it from all other African Stegomyia.
Genus: AEDIMORPHUS, Theobald. (Mono. Culicidæ, III., p. 290, 1903.) Aedimorphus domesticus, Theobald. (Mono. Culicidæ, II., p. 253, 1901.)
One and two d's. Caught in latrines at Accra, 9, iv., '07, and 11, iv.. '08; caught in bush path, 18, x., 07, ♂.
Dr. Graham observes, “A numerous species."
Aedimorphus punctothoracis, nov. sp.
Head brown in the middle, black at the sides; proboscis and palpi unbanded. Thorax rich brown with six silvery white spots; scutellum silvery white. Abdomen dark brown with basal, pale, lateral spots. Legs unbanded, apices of tibiæ and femora silvery white.
Head dark, clothed with flat black scales in front, and at the sides with some dull ochreous ones, and white ones at the sides, a patch of narrow-curved dull ochreous ones at the back, and black upright forked scales; proboscis and palpi black; antennæ dark brown, basal segment bright brown with a few small flat scales. Thorax dark rich brown with very small dull golden narrow-curved scales, and six spots of small, flat, silvery white scales; chætæ dark brown; scutellum clothed with flat, silvery white scales; metanotum dark brown; pleuræ bright brown with pale puncta.
Abdomen black with basal lateral snowy-white spots and golden border-bristles; venter mostly dark.
Legs dark brown, venter of femora for the basal two-thirds pale creamy a snow-white spot at the apex of the femora and tibiæ; chætæ golden; fore and mid ungues equal, uniserrate,
Wings with the first fork-cell a little longer and narrower than the second fork-cell, its stem about half the length of the cell, its base nearly level with that of the latter; stem of the second fork-cell about two-thirds the length of the cell; posterior cross-vein not quite its own length distant from the mid.
Length: 23 mm.
Palpi dark brown, hair-tufts dark on the last two segments, the penultimate rather swollen and a little longer than the apical one; antennæ plumose, plume
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hairs brown. Fore ungues unequal, the larger with a large tooth, the smaller with a small one near the base; mid very unequal, simple; hind equal and simple.
Wings with the fork-cells shorter than in 9, of nearly equal length; their stems nearly as long as the cells, posterior cross-vein about its own length distant from the mid.
The male claspers are very marked, being bifid, as shown in the figure (page 26). Length: 23 mm. Habitat: Acera.
Time of capture; 11, 12, 16, 20, vi., '08.
Observations: Caught in latrines at 8 a.m. Described from two perfect 's and two ♂'s. A very distinct small species with marked thoracic spotting. Very numerous in June. Three Q's taken in same locality, 12 and 18, vi., 08, show only the two anterior silvery thoracic spots.
Aedimorphus albotæniatus, nov. sp.
Thorax deep rich brown with golden scales; head pale in the middle, then dark at the sides, and then pale. Palpi and proboscis black, unbanded. Abdomen black with basal white bands. Legs black, unbanded; hind tibiæ with prominent white apical spots; venter of femora pale.
9 lead dark with a median basal patch of pale narrow-curved scales behind, flat white ones at their sides, flat black ones in front and at the sides of the flat white ones, then a lateral patch flat creamy scales; a narrow border of smaller scales around the eyes of a golden yellow; black upright forked scales, and deep brown chate in front; palpi short, deep black, also proboscis; antennæ black, basal segment and base of second testaceous, the former with some small dark scales and darkened on one side.
Thorax deep rich brown with bronzy scales and scattered bright golden ones; chætæ deep brown; scutellum pale with small, flat, mixed black and creamy scales; metanotum deep brown; pleura bright brown with patches of flat dull grey scales.
Abdomen black with dull violet reflections, and with basal white bands to the segments; pale brown border-bristles; venter with basal pale bands.
Legs black, femora pale below; apex of mid and hind tibiæ with creamy white spots, most prominent on hind legs; tibiæ spiny, especially on hind legs, spines golden yellow; fore and mid ungues equal and uniserrate, hind equal and simple.
Wings with brown scales; first fork-cell a little longer and narrower than the second fork-cell, its base a very little nearer the base of the wing, its stem about half the length of the cell; stem of the second posterior cell more than two-thirds the length of the cell; posterior cross-vein about the same length as the mid, and about its own length distant from it.
Thorax and abdomen as in the 9. Palpi brown, rather shorter than the proboscis, a pale, narrow band towards the base, deep brown hair-tufts on the last two segments and on one side of the apex of the ante-penultimate, penultimate segment about one and a half times the length of the apical. Plume-hairs of antennæ rich brown, the apical unplumed segments long. Fore ungues unequal, uniserrate; mid unequal but simple hind small, equal, and simple.
Fork-cells short; the first longer and narrower than the second, its stem nearly as long as the cell; stem of the second also nearly as long as the cell-
Length: 33 mm.
Habitat: Accra.
Time of capture : 19 and 23, vi., '08.
Observations: Described from a ♂ and 9 caught in latrines at 7 a.m.
A markedly banded abdomen species, thick set and dark. Resembles, at first,
a Culiseta, and is of the general build of C. tæniorhynchus.
Genus: REEDOMYIA, Ludlow.
(Canad. Entomologist, XXXVII., p. 94, 1905.) Reedomyia bipunctata, nov. sp.
Thorax brown with two yellow spots on the mesothorax, two small patches in front, and creamy yellow scaled scutellum. Legs unbanded, deep brown, pale on venter of femora, apex of femora with small pale spot, a larger one at apex of hind tibiæ, creamy white. Abdomen deep brown, unbanded, with small basal white lateral spots.