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CULICINAL. 
STEGOMYIA AUROSTRIATA, sp. nov. 
Head with black-brown and white scales, thorax brown with golden 
stripes, abdomen dark-brown, light, almost white ventrally; legs dark- 
brown except femora which are pale. 
?, length 5 millimeters; length of wings 3.5 millimeters; length of 
proboscis 2.5 millimeters; head covered with broad, flat scales, nearly 
white, pale-yellow around eyes and broadly in the median and occipital 
regions; a broad, black patch on either side giving appearance of eyes 
when viewed from above; a few scattered, upright, dull-grey, forked 
scales above nape; lateral curved bristles project forward over eyes; cheeks 
and under cephalic surface pale-yellow; antenne brown, first segment 
paler, clothed on internal surface with patch of white scales as is also 
second segment very slightly; clypeus well developed, having a slight 
median depression, bare, but with shght pruinescense; palpi short, not 
& length of proboscis, 5-jointed, the ultimate being extremely minute 
and globose; proboscis dark-brown, slightly swollen at apex which is 
lighter red-brown. 
Prothoracic lobes large, covered with a patch of golden, flat scales and 
a bunch of rather stout bristles; mesothorax with dark-seal-brown, narrow 
scales and adorned as follows: A very narrow, golden median line, scarcely 
perceptible anteriorly, extending from anterior to posterior margin 
where it dilates to cover the area of the usual bare spot; external to this 
a broad, golden band, curving outward on each side of the anterior half 
and slightly inward on the posterior half of the dorsal area, the two 
being parallel posteriorly, and suggesting the lyre-figure of S. fasciata 
Fabr. External to these lines and anterior to base of wing a faintly | 
suggested, longitudinal stripe of golden scales. Plure and coxe with 
numerous patches of broad, dirty-white scales. Mid lobe of scutellum 
with median patch of flat, yellow-white scales bordered by dark-brown 
ones and with 4 large bristles; lateral lobes with few mixed yellow, 
white and brown scales and 3 large bristles each; metanotum bare, dark- 
brown; halteres pale-yellow with dark-brown knobs. 
Abdomen above, very dark seal-brown, black in certain lights ; posterior 
margins of segments with golden bristles; bases of fifth and sixth with 
narrow white bands, while all segments except last show triangular white 
patches laterally at their bases; venter white-scaled, except last two seg- 
ments, which are black or dark-brown. 
Legs mostly dark-brown; anterior femora brown internally except near 
base which is cream-white internally and externally, with a fine, cream- 
white line extending to knee-joint; mid femora similarly marked except 
for pale area externally at base and having fine, cream-white line inter- 
nally; knees white, posterior femora all cream-white except a longitu- 
