BY FRANK H. TAYLOR. 177 



Stegomyia atripes (Skuse). (PI. xxviii., fig.l). 



Scutomyia atripes (Skuse) Taylor, Pioc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 

 Vol.xxxviii., p.750(1913). 



I placed this species in the genus Scutomyia, but having 

 examined fresh specimens, I am convinced that the narrow- 

 curved scales on the head are accidental, and have proV^ably been 

 misplaced from the thorax. 



//a6. - New South Wales: Milson Island (Dr. Ferguson), 

 Blackheath (W. A. Thompson). 



Stegomyia quasiornata, n.sp. (PL xxviii., fig.2). 



$. Head black-scaled, with a band of greyish-blue scales round 

 the eyes. Thorax pale, scantily clothed with small narrow- 

 curved scales. Abdomen black, with prominent apical white 

 spots, legs black, femora with two prominent white spots. 



9. Head black-scaled, with a border of greyish-blue scales 

 round the eyes— deep blue in some lights— with black upright- 

 forked scales at the base; antennae black, verticillate hairs black, 

 basal lobes testaceous: palpi black, with numerous black bristles; 

 proboscis black. 



Thorax yellowish, with a median and two lateral darker areas 

 scantily clothed with small, black, narrow-curved scales; pro- 

 thoracic lobes yellowish, clothed with small, black, flat scales; 

 scutellum yellow, clothed with small, black, outstanding, flat 

 scales; pleurae densely clothed with white, flat scales. 



Abdomen clothed with black scales, second segment with a 

 small basal white spot, segments two to seven with prominent 

 white apical spots; venter white-scaled. 



Legs black-scaled, coxae densely clothed with white scales; 

 femora creamy beneath, with two white spots above on the apical 

 third; tibiae and tarsi black; ungues small, equal and simple. 



Wings : costa black, spinose, veins clothed with dusky-brown 

 scales, lateral vein-scales very scanty, fringe dusky; first fork- 

 cell longer and narrower than the second, base of the latter 

 nearer the base of the wing, their stems almost as long as their 

 cells; anterior basal cross-vein longer than, and about one-half 



