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Tarsomere V lacking batonnets on hind leg of female; tergum IV with pale 

 mesal spots quite large; male genitalia with rodlike, weakly sclerotized 

 parameres; dististyle not slender at middle; medium-size species. 



pseudonotata, new species 



9. Halter knob totally dark brown pseudofestiva, new species 



Halter knob pale on distal third. 



(new species, undescribed from Malaya, 1 male) 



31. Stilobezzia (Stilobezzia) festiva Kieflfer 



Figures 5, 71 



Stilobezzia festiva Kieffer, 1911a, Rec. Indian Mus., vol. 6, p. 118 [male, female; 



Calcutta; fig. wing, tarsi, male genitalia]; 1911c, Zool. Jahrb., vol. 30, p. 



516 [notes on male, female]; 1913, Rec. Indian Mus., vol. 9, p. 186 [rec. 



Bengal; color variation]. 

 Stilobezzia festiva var. scutellaris Kieffer, 1912, Spolia Zeylanica, vol. 8, p. 7 



[female; Ceylon]. NEW SYNONYMY. 

 Stilobezzia notata (Meijere). — Tokunaga, 1940a, Philipp. Journ. Sci., vol. 72, 



p. 280 [Japan, Taiwan; fig. wing; female misident.]; 1962, Pacific Ins., vol. 



4, p. 208 [redescr. male, female, fig. male genitalia; Ryukyu Isl.; misident.] 

 Stilobezzia spirogyrae Carter, Ingram and Macfie. — Ghosh and Das Gupta, 



1962, Calcutta School Trop. Med. Bull., vol. 10, p. 120 [descr. male, female; 



fig. wing, abdominal color pattern, spermathecae, male genitalia; Calcutta; 



misident.]. 



Female. — Length of wing 1.39 (1.12-1.54, n = 39) mm; breadth 

 0.50 mm. 



Head: Eyes narrowly separated (fig. 71a); vertex with 10 hairs. 

 Head yellowish, proboscis pale brown, palpi dark brown, anten- 

 nomeres XI-XV (except a narrow subbasal pale mark) and narrow 

 apices of III-X slightly infuscated. Antenna (fig. 5) with lengths of 

 III-XV as 14-8-8-8-8-8-8-9-19-21-22-24-31, AR 1.65; X slightly 

 longer than IX, XV with short terminal seta. Palpal segments (fig. 

 7 Id) as 6-15-21-13-22; III tapered on distal third, with 3-4 long- 

 stalked sensilla from indistinct sensory pit. Mandible with 6-7 (av. 

 6.8, n=32) coarse teeth, also 5-7 fine outer serrations. 



Thorax: Pale yellow with scutal pattern (fig. 7 lb) as figured; 

 scutal vittae pale brown, bordered anteriorly and laterally with dark 

 brown, dark brown crossband present on posterior margin of mesal 

 vitta; pleuron with oblique dark brown band between posterior side 

 of fore coxa and end of scutellum. Scutellum with 5-6 bristles. 



Legs (fig. 71e): Pale yellow; trochanters, narrow bases and apices 

 of tibiae, and tarsomeres IV and V brown; mid femur with broad 

 subapical brown band, incomplete dorsally; hind femur brown on 

 distal half, with a varying subapical pale area and a brown extension 

 on anterior side to base. Femora and tibiae with sparse weak hairs, 

 except for group of 5-6 strong spinose hairs at apices and extensor 

 line of long bristly hairs distally on hind tibia; strong ventral spines 

 present on I-III on mid leg only, as 1-0-2, 0-0-2, 0-0-2; absent on 



