188 A Monograph of Culicidae. 



segments white, the third tarsal all black, the fourth all white but 

 for a small black apex, last tarsal small all black. 



Wings with typical brown Stegomyian scales ; first sub- 

 marginal cell longer and slightly narrower than the second 

 posterior cell, its base slightly nearer the base of the wing, its 



Fig. 53. 

 Wing of Stegomyia mediopunctata. ? . Theobald. 



stem about half the length of the cell ; stem of the second 

 posterior nearly as long as the cell ; posterior cross-vein about 

 twice its own length distant from the mid. 



Halteres with fuscous knob. 



Length. — 3 mm. 



Habitat. — Peradeniya, Ceylon (E. E. Green). 



Time of capture. — November (1901). 



Observations. — Described from a single female in excellent 

 condition. The curious leg banding will at once separate it from 

 all known Stegomyia. 



Stegomyia pseudonivea. Theobald (1905). 

 Ann. Mus. Natio. Hung. III., p. 75 (1905). 



Head clothed with flat black scales and a narrow grey 

 border around the eyes ; palpi and proboscis black. Thorax with 

 the front half silvery-white, remainder bronzy-brown. Legs 

 deep brown, unhanded, venter and extreme base of femora grey. 

 Ungues equal and uniserratecl. 



9 . Head clothed with flat dark brown scales, showing 

 bright violet reflections in certain lights, a narrow grey border of 

 flat scales around the eyes, and dull grey flat scales at the sides, 

 some black bristles projecting forwards ; palpi, clypeus and 

 proboscis deep brown j antennae deep brown basal segment with a 

 few grey scales and the pubescence dull grey. 



Thorax deep brown, fore two-thirds clothed with rather large 

 silvery-white narrow-curved scales, remainder with similar 



