190 Mr. Frank H. Taylor on CnUcidae from Pap id. 



Dr. Breinl. It would come after S. argenteopundata, 

 Theobald, in his table of species.* 



Stegomyia atra, n. sp. 



(Plate XVII, fig. 4.) 



Head black witli black flat scales. Thorax black with brown 

 spindle-shaped scales ; scutellum grey scaled ; pleurae with dense 

 pure white scales. Legs black. 



$. Head black, covered with black flat scales (grey in some lights) 

 and a patch of creamy white upright forked ones in the centre of 

 the base and black ones on each side with a narrow border of white 

 flat ones round the eyes expanding laterally; eyes black, fringe 

 dusky brown with two brown bristles overhanging the eyes from 

 the centre; antennae brown, covered with grey pile, second and 

 third segments swollen, the second more so than the third, densely 

 clothed with dusky pile, basal lobe black with apical half grey; 

 clypeus black with the apical half grey ; palpi densely clothed with 

 closely applied black scales, apical third pale scaled above. 



Thorax black, clothed with brown and black spindle-shaped 

 scales with a median patch on the anterior border of mixed white 

 narrow curved and spindle-shaped scales, and a border of dusky 

 brown bristles ; prothoracic lobes prominent, black, clothed with 

 narrow curved flat white scales and dark brown bristles, a lateral 

 row of dark brown bristles densest above the wing roots ; scutellum 

 dark brown with a narrow black basal edge clothed with pale brown 

 flat scales, in some lights they are mostly blue-black ; pleurae brown 

 entirely covered with densely packed pure white flat scales. 



Abdomen light brown, densely clothed with blue black flat scales, 

 unhanded, posterior border bristles pale, very short, those on last 

 two segments brown, long and dense, the first segment with numer- 

 ous fairly long pale bristles in addition to the blue black scales; 

 venter densely clothed with white flat scales. 



Legs : coxae and trochanters light brown ; femora white scaled 

 beneath nearly the whole length, blue-black above; tibiae and 

 tarsi of fore, mid and hind legs clothed with blue-black scales with 

 violet reflections except tarsi three to five of mid and hind legs 

 which are brownish with yellowish reflections ; ungues equal and 

 simple. 



Wings witli the veins covered with dark brown scales, the costa 

 blue black ; fringe brown ; veins clothed with lanceolate and flat 

 scales ; first fork-cell longer and narrower than the second, base of 



* Theobald, Mun. Culicid, V, 144 (1910). 



