Genus Stegomyia. 185 



of the fore and mid first and second tarsal segments ; hind 

 femora pale for about two-thirds of their length, then dark brown, 

 and then a snowy- white apex ; basal banding on the hind legs 

 snowy-white. 



Length. — 4 mm. 



Time of capture. — September. 



Habitat. — Narcondam Islands (80 miles from Andaman and 

 Nicobar Islands), Bay of Bengal (G. Rogers). 



Observations. — Described from two 9 s, not in good state, the 

 hind legs being absent, but the marked thoracic adornment will 

 at once separate it from any other true Stegomyia. 



Stegomyia africana. Theobald (1901). 



Mono. Culicid. L, p. 304 (1901). 



Additional localities. — Ruwe, Lualaba Road, Congo Free 

 State, in February (Dr. Yale Massey). 



Stegomyia poweri. Theobald (1905). 



Journ. Econ. Biol., Vol. L, No. 1, p. 18 (1905). 



Head velvety black with median and lateral white patches ; 

 palpi black with snowy-white apices ; proboscis black. Thorax 

 blackish-brown with a median yellowish-white line, a silvery 

 patch on each side in front of the wings extending as a fine 

 yellowish line towards the scutellum, and a silvery patch on each 

 side of the wings. Abdomen blackish-brown with basal white 

 bands and large white basal lateral spots. Legs black and 

 banded with white, base of hind femora white ; fore legs with 

 basal white bands to the first and second tarsals, mid legs the 

 same, but the second tarsal nearly all white, hind legs with the 

 fourth tarsal all white, the fifth black. 



9 . Head clothed with flat violet black scales, with a double 

 row of median silvery-white ones, and a small patch on each side 

 and a few white scales around the border of the eyes, bristles 

 jet black ; palpi black, scaled with snowy white scales apically, 

 and a few forming a narrow band towards their middle ; antennae 

 deep brown with narrow white pale bands and deep brown 

 verticillate hairs, basal segment black basally ; with grey 

 tomentum apically and a few white scales on the inner side ; 

 proboscis jet black. 



