102 KEPOKT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



Wings with short fork-cells, the first longer and narrower than the second, its base 

 if anything a little nearer the base of the wing, its stem a little less than half the length 

 of the cell ; stem of the second fork-cell about two-thirds the length of the cell ; posterior 

 cross-vein about two and half times its own length distant from the mid ; wing scales 

 mostly rounded apically. 



Length, 4'5 to 5 mm. 



Hahitat. — -Kimba, Congo Free State (Newstead) ; Sudan (H. H. King) ; Mpuma, 

 Uganda (Sir David Bruce). 



Stegomyia Stegomyla ijebeleinensis, Theobald 



gebeUinensis 



■ Mono. CiilicU. V., p. Ibl (1910) 



Head as in Stegomyia Scutellaria:, Walker. Thorax rich brown with a rather broad 

 median white line in front, and where it terminates, a small white spot on each side, 

 pleurae white scaled, scutellum white scaled. Abdomen black with narrow basal 

 silvery-white bands on the dorsum and venter. Legs black with narrow basal white 

 bands on some of the joints. 



1^ Head as in Stegomyia scutellaris. Walker. Thorax black, clothed with small narrow- 

 curved bronzy-brown scales, a rather broad median white scaled line, running from the 

 front to about the middle, narrowing posteriorly, where it ends is a small white scaled 

 spot on each side of similar scales, and just anterior to these run two indistinct paler 

 scaled lines back to the scutellum, paler scales also before the scutellum, which is covered 

 with flat white scales and has black border-bristles ; metanotuin dark brown ; pleurae 

 dark with dense rather loose flat white scales, especially above ; prothoracie lobes with 

 flat white scales. 



Legs damaged ; the femora white scaled at the base ; the mid pair with a narrow 

 pale basal band to the metatarsi and first tarsal. 



Wings with typical stegomyia scales ; fork-cells short, the first longer and slightly 

 narrower than the second, their bases nearly level, stem of the first nearly as long as the 

 cell ; stem of the second as long as the cell ; posterior cross-vein not quite three times its 

 own length distant from the mid. 



Abdomen black, with narrow basal snow-white bands which spread out laterally, 

 basal segment all dark-scaled ; border-bristles pale golden and brown ; venter dark with 

 basal white bands. 



Length, 35 mm. 



Habitat. — -Gebelein, Sudan (H. H. King). 



stemmvia Stegomyia lilii, Theobald 



Mono. CiiUcUl. v., p. 160 (I'JIO) 



Head black with snow-white median area and white at the sides ; palpi black in 

 $ with snow-white apices ; proboscis black. Thorax black with a large lateral snow-white 

 spot in front, and a smaller one behind before roots of wing ; two narrow median yellow 

 and two sub-median white lines run from the middle of mesonotum to the scutellum ; 

 scutellum white ; pleurae dark with white puncta. 



Abdomen black with basal silvery-white bands, last segment with two white s2Dots, 

 no band. 



Legs black with basal white bands. 



