Genus Stegomyia. 189 



bronzy scales, black bristles project forward over the head ; 

 scutellum black with flat black to bronzy scales; metanotum 

 deep brown; prothoracic lobes reddish-brown or deep brown 

 according to the light, with a few deep brown bristles ; pleurae 

 brown with silvery spots. 



Abdomen black, the fifth, sixth and seventh segments with 

 basal white bands and traces of basal lateral spots ; venter brown 

 with basal silvery bands. 



Legs deep brown ; base and venter of femora grey ; coxae 

 brown ; fore and mid ungues small, equal and uniserrated, hind 

 equal and simple. 



Wings with the first sub-marginal longer, but very little 

 narrower than the second posterior cell, its base nearer the base 

 of the wing, its stem rather more than half the length of the cell ; 

 stem of the second posterior about as long as the cell ; posterior 

 cross-vein rather more than its own length distant from the 

 mid cross-vein. Halteres with grey stem and widely expanded 

 fuscous knob. 



Length, — 3 mm. 



Habitat. — Singapore (Biro, 1902). 



Time of capture. — January. 



Observations. — Described from a single J . It bears a close 

 resemblance to nivea, Ludlow, but can at once be told by the 

 fore and mid ungues being uniserrated and not simple, and by 

 the femora being dark above, not white as in nivea. 



Stegomyia punctolatePwALIS. Theobald (1903). 

 The Entomologist, Vol. XXXVI., p. 156 (1903). 



Thorax black with dense bronzy-brown scales, unadorned 

 except for pale scaled lines laterally ; pleurae snowy- white, the 

 white extending on to the mesonotum as a broad white line in 

 front of the roots of the wings, and a narrower one just over the 

 roots of the wings ; prothoracic lobes white, separated by a black 

 curved line from the mesonotum. Proboscis black unhanded. 

 Abdomen black, with apical white lateral spots ; venter mostly 

 white. Legs black unbanded ; coxae and under part of femora, 

 tibiae, and to some extent the under surface of the first tarsal 

 of the hind legs white. 



J . Head covered with flat bronzy -brown scales, and a pale, 

 almost white, border around the eyes. Palpi, proboscis, clypeus 



