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band towards the base ; proboscis black ; anteiinse brown, basal 

 segment bright ferruginous, with small flat grey and fuscous scales, 

 base of the second segment ferruginous. 



Thorax black, thickly clothed with narrow-curved deep golden 

 brown to bronzy scales, with a distinct ochreous bordei surround- 

 ing the sides and front, some paler broader scales and golden 

 brown chgetse over the roots of the wings ; scutellum clothed with 

 flat black and ochraceous scales, mixed together ; border bristles 

 golden ; metanotum chestnut-brown ; pleurae brown with patches 

 of small flat creamy scales. 



Abdomen black, the second to sixth segments with prominent 

 broad yellow apical bands, expanded in the middle but not con- 

 tinued quite to the edge of the segments, seventh with a few 

 pale scales, eighth mostly ochreous scaled ; each segment with a 

 median lateral pale spot ; venter ochreous. Legs brown, hind 

 femora pale beneath, apex of tibiae with a pale ochreous spot con- 

 tinued on to the base of the metatarsus, the tibiae with narrow api- 

 cal and basal pale yellow bands ; fore and mid ungues uniserrate, 

 hind equal and simple. 



Wings with rather short fork-cells ; the first submarginal cell a 

 little longer and narrower than the second posterior cell, its base 

 slightly nearer the apex of the wing, its stem more than half the 

 length of the cell, stem of the second posterior not quite as long 

 as the cell ; posterior cross- vein long, twice its own length distant 

 from the mid. Halteres with pale stem and fuscous knob. 



Length 8 mm. 



Habitat Sylhet, Assam {Lt.-Col. Hall). 



Time of capture 26- vi-; 5. 



Observations. — Described from a single $ . It is a large and 

 distinct species easily identified by the apical and basal leg band- 

 ing, apical abdominal bands and ochreous venter. The length of 

 the palpi and short thick proboscis agree with Brevirhynchus , but 

 the head and thoracic scales, although of the same general form, are 

 not so large as in the other two species. I see no reason however 

 to separate it from that genus. 



21. Stegomyia fasciata, Fabricius. 

 Sysl. Antl., p. 36, 13, 1805. 



Additional Localities and Dates. 



Bengal. — Calcutta, 27-vii-07, 27-viii-07 (C. Paiva), 28-vii-o8 

 </. H. Burkill), " in Museum building," vii-08 (T. Bentham), July 

 and August 07 {mus. collr.) ; Puri, Orissa coast, 18 and ig-i-og 

 {Annandale). " Not so common in Calcutta as 5. scutellaris " 

 (Annandale). 



E. Bengal and Assam. — Chittagong, 2i-ix-o3 {Lt.-Col. Hall). 



Madras Presidency. — Madras town, 31-X-08 [R. Hodgart). 



Burma.— Rangoon/' in house, biting by day," 25-ii-o8 ; Man- 

 dalay, i2-iii-o8 {Annandale). 



