GENUS STEGOMYIA 381 



Head black, with a pair of snowy spots on the nape, especially 

 distinct in the male. Antennae black, the plumes of the male having 

 a very marked silvery reflection in certain lights. Palpi black, longer 

 than the proboscis by rather more than the length of the terminal 

 joint, very minute in the ? . Proboscis black, with a distinct but 

 minute white or yellowish tip. 



Thorax with a black ground, covered with a bronzy tomentum and 

 a number of strong bristles, which become especially marked along the 

 posterior border of the scutellum, which is armed with a median and 

 lateral tufts of strong bristles nearly as long as the first two abdominal 

 segments. There are some snowy spots on the pleurae, and a tendency 

 to longitudinal ornamentation of tlie dorsum, but not sufficiently con- 

 trasted to catch the eye. Wings markedly shorter than the abdomen. 

 Halteres light yellow with darker knobs. Legs short and stout, almost 

 uniformly black save for the femora below, a minute knee-spot, and a 

 tiny band at junction of tibia with first tarsal joint, yellowish-brown. 

 Hind tibia about the same length as the first tarsal joint. Abdominal 

 segments black, with very narrow basal snowy bands (which often dis- 

 appear on drying), expanding laterally into distinct spots ; and with 

 a fringe of yellowish hairs along the distal borders of the segments ; 

 venter black, with broad basal snowy bands to the segments. Male 

 claspers black, proportionally large. Length — of wings in ^ 2'2 mm., 

 of abdomen, 2'5 mm. 



Habitat. — Allahabad, Jhansi, and Lucknow in houses during the 

 rains. 



Ohservation. — -A small, heavily-built mosquito, nearly black through- 

 out, the abdominal banding often disappearing by shriixkage in drying, 

 with short thick legs and exceptionally small wings." 



Note. — -I originally thought this species came under Mr. Theobald's 

 Wyeomia, as to the characters of which I had then but a brief note. 

 Further specimens which have dried with tlie metanotum better exposed, 

 show that the bristles I supposed to belong to it are really some small 

 ones on the scutellum below the three great tufts of bristles figured. 



18. STEGOMYIA CRASSIPES (Van dei Wulp). 



(Dipt, der Middeu Sumatra, p. 9.) 



Wings v?ith yellovpish scales, specially long on I, II and 

 IV ; fork of II external to that of IV. Tarsi unhanded, nearly 

 hlack. Thorax bronzy brown, the mesonotum quite unadorned, 

 though a little whitish at roots of wings. Abdominal segments 

 black, with conspicuous yellow apical bands, which are prolonged 

 backwards in the middle, so as to form an interrupted median 

 line ; the middle ones have also triangular side spots. Venter 

 pure white. Proboscis dark, unhanded. 



Head black with creamy orbits and median stripe, clypeus black with 

 scattered white scales. Palpi entirely black. Scutellum white-scaled ; 



