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length distant from the mid. Lateral vein-scales long and thin, 

 especially on the third vein. 



Habitat Sylhet, Assam [Major Hall], and Lungleh, lyushai Hills, 

 Assam. 



Time of capture July at lyungleh, September at Sylhet. 



Observations. — Described from five ? $ . It is a very marked 

 Stegomyia , easily told by the thoracic adornment. One of the 

 specimens shows some additional prominent adornment on the back 

 of the thorax before the scutellum and a dull creamy patch of scales 

 just behind the root of the wings. 



The specimen from Lungleh was taken in a bungalow. 



*io, Stegomyia assamensis . sp. nov. 



Thorax deep brown, a white-scaled area in front less than one- 

 fourth the area of the mesothorax, and a small scaled patch in 

 front of the root of each wing. 



Abdomen deep brown^ unhanded, with basal lateral white 

 spots, the scales raggedly arranged below. Legs brown, a pale spot 

 near apex of fore and mid tibise, a basal pale band to mid meta- 

 tarsi, hind femora pale, except for a brown band in the middle, 

 base and apex of metatarsi white, base of first hind tarsal white. 

 Proboscis deep brown. 



2 . Head black, clothed with flat black scales and some 

 white ones in the middle, a narrow line around the eyes and at the 

 sides, and short thick black chaetse in front projecting forwards 

 and inwards over the eyes, which are large and silvery ; palpi black 

 scaled, traces of some paler scales apically ; proboscis black ; an- 

 tennse dark brown, basal segment with grey tomentum. 



Thorax shiny black, clothed with bronzy brown narrow-curved 

 scales, except for a small area in front which has pale creamy white 

 scales and a small white-scaled area on each side in front of the 

 roots of the wings passing up on to the luesonotum some short 

 distance, and a small patch of pale scales in front of the bare space 

 before the scutellum ; chsetse black to dark brown ; scutellum 

 testaceous with flat dusky scales and rich brown border-bristles ; 

 pleurse rich brown with silvery white puncta. 



Abdomen deep brown, unhanded, with basal lateral white 

 spots and rather long dusky border-bristles ; venter black with 

 basal white bands, the scales long and out-standing, giving a 

 ragged appearance. 



Legs brown and banded ; fore and mid legs with the femora 

 pale at the base and below, the tibiae with a creamy area before 

 the apex which is black, — this is most marked in the fore pair ; 

 the rest of fore legs unhanded, but in the mid the metatarsus has a 

 pale basal band ; femora of the hind legs pale creamy with a 

 broad dark band on the apical half, base and apex of the metatar- 

 sus with a pale band, also the base of the first tarsal, remainder 

 dark ; fore and mid ungues equal and uniserrate, the hind equal 

 and simple. . . 



