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proboscis black ; antemice deep brown, basal segment with white 

 scales; some golden brown chsetse project between the eyes. 



Thorax black, the greater surface clothed with bronz}^ brown 

 longer narrow-curved scales, a small area near the head and a 

 small wedge-shaped area on each side in front of the wings with 

 dull white scales, some pale cream}' scales which form three indis- 

 t'nct lines behind in some lights; scutellum with flat black scales 

 with dull violet reflections and some while ones on the lateral lobes ; 

 pleurae brown with flat white-scaled spots. Chgetse brown and 

 black. Abdomen black with narrow basal white bands and basal 

 snowy white lateral spots. Legs deep brown ; the first ])air with 

 a basal white band to the first tarsal, the mid with a median white 

 spot on the femora, the apex white and a basal white band to the 

 metatarsal and first tarsal ; the hind with the femora white at the 

 base, and all the segments with a basal white band except the last; 

 some large black chsetse at the apices of the segments in the hind 

 legs ; fore and mid ungues uniserrate, hind simple. 



Wings with typical large brown Stegomyian scales on the basal 

 region, dense narrow linear ones on the apical areas of the veins ; 

 the first submarginal cell longer and narrower than the second 

 posterior, their bases nearly level. Stem of the first fork-cell 

 about half the length of the cell, stem of the second posterior 

 about two-thirds the length of the cell ; posterior cross-vein twice 

 its own length distant from the mid. 



Length 2*5 mm. 



Habitat Sukna, 500 feet, base of E. Himalayas, DarjiHng 

 district {Annandalc). 



Time of capture i-vii-08. 



Observations. — Described from 3 9 's. One of the smallest 

 StegomyicB I have seen. It can easily be told b}^ the thoracic orna- 

 mentation and the white round spot on the femora of the mid legs. 

 One specimen was taken in a bungalow. 



25. Siegomyia annandalei , sp. nov. 



Head black with a larse median white patch ; palpi black with 

 snowy white apices ; proboscis black. Thorax black-brown with a 

 snowy white patch in front and one over the roots of the wings. 



Abdomen jet-black with snowy white basal bands which gradu- 

 ally swell out laterall}^ Legs black banded with snowy white, the 

 hind legs with a band at the base of the metatarsals, first tarsals 

 and the whole of the third white. 



9 . Head clothed with flat black scales, with a large median 

 triangular snowy white patch and a small dull white lateral patch, 

 some black chsetse in front ; palpi black-scaled with broad snowy 

 white apices: proboscis black; antennae deep brown, basal seg- 

 ment with dense snowy white scales. 



Thorax shiny black, clothed with long bronzy brown narrow- 

 curved scales, except for a small snowy white patch of similar 

 scales in front and a patch of flat snowy white scales over the base 



