Genus Stegomyia. 175 



bristles ; mesonotum with the front half clothed with narrow 

 curved silky white scales with a brown scaled eye-like spot on 

 each side of the pale area and some brown scales in front, and 

 black bristles projecting over the head, back part of mesonotum 

 with mostly white scales, but having a pale-brown scaled median 

 area and another on each side over the roots of the wings ; the 

 pale brown scales much narrower than the white ; numerous 

 brown bristles over the wing roots ; scutellum densely clothed 

 with flat snowv white scales and with golden-brown border- 

 bristles, five large and five pallid small ones to mid lobe ; pleurae 

 brown with snowy puncta ; metanotum deep brown. 



Abdomen deep brown with basal white median spots, 

 variable, some almost bands, others triangular, on the apical 

 segments these pale areas spread over most of the segments and 

 have mixed with them yellowish scales ; there are also prominent 

 white basal lateral spots ; first segment all dark with pallid hairs ; 

 border-bristles pallid. 



Legs black banded with white as follows : fore legs with 

 narrow tibial band near base, first, second and third tarsals with 

 narrow basal pale bands ; mid legs with a pale band near base 

 of femora, a snowy white apical spot, a white band near base 

 of tibia, the base of the first three tarsals white ; hind legs very 

 similar, but the basal half of the femora is white, and all the 

 tarsals have basal white bands ; ungues of fore and mid legs 

 uniserrated (teeth very basal), hind equal and simple. 



Wings with dense brown scales of typical form ; first sub- 

 marginal cell longer and narrower than the second posterior cell, 

 its stem about two-thirds the length of the cell, its base nearly 

 level with that of the second posterior cell ; second posterior cell 

 opening out towards the edge of the wing, its stem as long as 

 the cell ; posterior cross-vein about two and a half times its own 

 length distant from the mid. 



Halteres with white stem and black and white knob. 



Length. — 3* 5 mm. 



Habitat. — X. W. Provinces, India (Capt. Wyville Thomson). 



Observations. — Described from a single perfect $ . Easily 

 distinguished from annulirostris by the apical and basal leg 

 banding. 



