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of the wings on each s'de; supra-akir cliaetae dense, black and long ; 

 scutellum with the mid lobe clothed with flat black scales, the 

 lateral lobes with flat white scales ; border bristles black ; nietano- 

 tum deep brown ; pleura dark with numerous white patches of 

 scales. 



Abdomen black with four snowy white basal bands on the 

 last four segments, which broaden out laterall}^, the two preced- 

 ing segments with basal white lateral spots. 



Legs black, the fore and mid with basal white bands on the 

 metatarsi and first tarsal ; the hind with a basal white band on the 

 metatarsi and first tarsal segments, the second all dark, the third 

 nearly all white, the fourth dark ; ungues apparently all simple. 



Wings with brown scales ; fork-cells short, the first submargi- 

 nal longer and narrower than the second posterior, its stem a little 

 nearer the ba'=;e of the wing than that of the second posterior, its 

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

 posterior nearh' as long a^ the cell; posterior cross- vein rather 

 more than twice its own length distant from the mid. 



Length 2*8 nmi. 



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

 district {Annandale). 



Time of capture vii-08. 



Observations. — Described from a single perfect 2 . It resem- 

 bles Stegcmyia minutissinia but can at once be told by the banding 

 of the posterior legs and still more definitely bv the flat white 

 scales forming the lateral thoracic patches. The specimen was 

 taken in a bungalow. 



26. Stcgoniyia albipcs, sp. nov. 



Thorax l)rown, a small silvery white patch in front and a 

 white-scaled line running down to the base of the wings where 

 there is a large snowy white patch extending on to the dorsum 

 and scutellum. Head black, white in the middle; palpi black 

 with snowy apex ; proboscis black. Abdomen black with narrow 

 basal white bands and large .snowy white lateral basal spots. 

 Legs with broqd basal white bands, last two hind tarsi white ; mid 

 femora and tibiae with a median white round spot. 



9 . Head black, clothed with flat black scales at the sides, 

 white in the middle ; chaetcC black ; proboscis and clyi)eus black; 

 palpi black with snow5^ white apices ; antenmie dark drown, basal 

 segment with dense flat snow}' white scales. 



Thorax dark with narrow-curved deep bronzy brown scales, 

 snowy white ones forming a broadish line in front and extending 

 laterally towards the wings before which they s]:)read out into a 

 large white patch, which passes on to the dorsum ; this is composed 

 of narrow-curved scales above and flat ones below ; there is also a 

 white line of narrow-cu' ved scales on each side just past the roots 

 of the wings and a few white scales here and there before the 

 scutellum; supra-alar chaetic black; scutellum clothed with rather 



