80 THE MOSQUITOES OF EGYPT, THE SUDAN AND ABYSSINIA Dr. Balfour sends a male which is described here, I feel sure it is the male of the new species recorded. It is one of the most curious mosquitoes I have seen. The proboscis is much swollen for half its length, the labellae small, leaf like and acuminate and the palpi long and thin and acuminate, about two-thirds the length of the proboscis. The structure of the palpi would thus place it between the Culicinae and Aedinas.

Mimomyia uniformis1 n. sp.

(Plate I., Figs. 7, 8, & 10) Head brown with yellowish scales, thorax testaceous with small black scales. Abdomen brown with blackish-brown scales, the apical segments with scattered creamy scales. Legs uni¬ formly brown, venter of femora pale.

Wings with a pale spot at their base.

Female. Head brown, clothed with rather irregular flat creamy scales and some yellow and black upright-forked ones, the latter towards the nape ; antennae brown, basal joint testaceous darker on the inside, remainder deep brown; proboscis brown, swollen apically and the labellae ’ black; palpi small, testaceous, with black scales abo\Te.

Thorax shiny brown with scat¬ tered narrow-curved black scales; pleurae testaceous; scutellum bright brown with black narrow-curved scales, four border-bristles to the mid lobe; metanotum chestnut-brown with brown scales and with basal bands of dull creamy scales, so dull that they are only noticeable in certain lights, apical segments with a few scattered creamy scales ; border-bristles dull golden.

Legs uniformly brown, except the venter of the femora, which are pale; in certain lights the legs show ochreous reflections. Wings with brown scales and with a nude shiny white basal patch, lateral scales on the apical portions of the veins and on the major area of the second and on one side of the fourth elongate, clavate, those on the basal parts of the second and fourth longer than the others; median vein-scales short and spatulate a single row only, those on the sixth somewhat longer than the rest; first submarginal cell about the same length and scarcely narrower than the second posterior cell, its base nearer the apex of the wing, its stem longer than the cell; stem of the second posterior about the length of the cell; supernumerary cross-vein slightly nearer the base of the wing than the mid cross-vein ; posterior Fig. 5 Mimomyia uniformis £ Enlarged portion of wing to show scales