12 Records of the Indian Museum. [Voi,. IV, 



large flat snowy white scales; metanotum black; pleurae black 

 with silvery white puncta. 



Abdomen black with narrow basal snowy white bands and 

 very large basal lateral white spots ; posterior border bristles pale, 

 short. 



Legs black with white bands and spots ; the fore femora pale 

 at the base ventrally, fore tibiae with a white median spot; knee 

 spot white ; white iDands to metatarsi and first tarsals ; mid femora 

 with prominent white median spot (almost a band), a smaller one 

 basally and a white apex, metatarsi and first tarsal basally white; 

 hind femora white basally, and on most of the venter, apex white; 

 tibiae with a white band on the apical half, metatarsi and first two 

 tarsi basally snowy white, and all the last two tarsi; cha^tae black ; 

 ungues equal and simple. 



Wings with dark scales, ba^e pale; first submarginal cell longer 

 and narrower than the second posterior, its base nearer the base 

 of the wing, its stem about half the length of the cell; stem of 

 the second posterior about as long as the cell ; posterior cross- 

 vein rather more than twice its own length distant from the mid. 

 Halteres with testaceous stem and deep fuscous knob. 



Length 3 mm. 



Habitat Maddathorai, w. base of W. Ghats, Travancore 

 {Annandale). 



Time of capture ly-xi-oS. 



Observations. — Described from a perfect 2 , At once sepa- 

 rated from any other Slegomyia by the last two hind tarsi being 

 white and by the thoracic ornamentation, especially by the pre- 

 alar white patch being composed of narrow-curved scales above, 

 flat ones below. The femoral and tibial markings are also very 

 distinctive. 



27. Stegomyia assamensis, Theob. 



Rec. Ind. Mus., ii, p. 290, 1908. 



Travancore. — Pallode, twenty miles N.E. of Trivandrum, 

 i5-xi-o8 {Annandale), i small 9 . 



Genus Pseudocarroli^ia, gen. nov. 



Head clothed with flat scales and upright forked scales, a 

 border of spindle-shaped scales around the eyes. Palpi of $ 

 about one-fourth the length of the proboscis. Thorax with nar- 

 row-curved scales; scutellum with flat scales. Abdomen with 

 dense ventral scale tufts on some of the apical segments. Fork- 

 cells rather short, vein-scales rather thick. 



Allied to Carrollia (Lutz) but differs in having the scutellum 

 with all flat scales and in the absence of narrow-curved scales 

 forming a median basal area on the head. 



The marked ventral abdominal scale tufts resemble those of 

 Carrollia and Hcemagogus. 



