Genus Stegomyia. 173 



Thorax unadorned amesii. Ludlow. 



AAA. Proboscis yellow basally, dark apically. 



Abdomen with apical pale 

 bands crassijoes. Van der Wulp. 



Stegomyia annulirostris. Theobald (1905). 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. Vol. XVI., p. 239 (1905). 



Head creamy grey ; proboscis black with a median white 

 area. Thorax brown with creamy white scales scattered over it> 

 most dense in front ; pleurae brown with white puncta. Abdomen 

 deep brown, the third, fourth and fifth segments with basal 

 median triangular white spots, apical segments yellow-scaled, 

 lateral white median spots to all the segments. Legs with very 

 narrow pale basal bands to some of the fore and mid tarsals, 

 broader ones on the hind pair ; knee spots snowy white, also 

 base of hind femora. 



$ . Head covered with flat silky creamy grey scales which 

 have a rusty brown hue at the sides when seen in some lights 

 Proboscis black with a clear median white band. Palpi short, 

 black-scaled, the apex apparently truncated. Antennae brown, 

 basal segment testaceous. 



Thorax black clothed with rather long, thick silky white and 

 creamy narrow-curved scales, most densely in front and rather 

 broader scales in front of the scutellum ; golden-brown bristles 

 project over the roots of the wings; scutellum covered with 

 small flat white scales and with golden-brown border-bristles; 

 metanotum reddish-brown ; pleurae brown with patches of white 

 scales. Abdomen deep blackish-brown, the third, fourth and 

 fifth segments with a basal white median spot, somewhat 

 triangular on the fourth and fifth segments, the apical segments 

 with yellowish and creamy scales, except the extreme apex which 

 is black, no markings dorsally on the first and second segments, 

 each segment with lateral median white spots ; border-bristles 

 small pale golden. 



Legs brown with some basal white bands : on the fore legs 

 there is a narrow band at the base of the first, second and third 

 tarsals ; the base of the femora paler than the remainder ; in 

 the mid legs traces of similar pale bands and a white prominent 

 knee spot, on the under side the foot is shiny creamy white ; in 

 the hind legs the greater part of the femora are white, the apex 

 only dark and the white basal bands on the first tarsal and next 



