Genus Scutornyia. 197 



The five known species tabulate as follows : — 



Legs basally banded with white. 

 Last hind tarsal all white. 



Proboscis prominently white banded. 



Thorax with median silver line, two lateral 

 curved lines and two short yellow lateral 



ones notoscripta. Skuse. 



Proboscis with trace of banding. 



Thorax with four silvery spots sugens. Wiedemann, 



Legs with apical banding. 

 Proboscis unhanded. 



Thorax with four silvery spots marshallii. Theobald. 



Legs fore and mid unhanded, hind with basal 

 white dorsal patches. 

 Thorax with a broad median silvery line in 



front , albolineata. Theobald. 



Legs unhanded. 



Thorax with front two-thirds silvery white 

 with three black lines nivea. Ludlow. 



Scutomyia albolineata. Theobald (1904). 



The Entomologist, Vol. XXXVIL, p. 77 (1904). 



Thorax black, with a broad median silvery-white line in front 

 and a median silvery spot on the scutellum. Abdomen black, 

 with basal silvery-white lateral spots, the last two segments 

 with basal silvery-white bands. Fore and mid legs black, 

 unhanded ; the hind with the first, second and third tarsals with 

 basal white dorsal patches. 



9 . Head clothed with flat black scales except in the middle, 

 where there is a median broad area of white, narrow-curved 

 scales : palpi, clypeus, proboscis and antennae black, the basal 

 segment of the latter with white scales inside ; proboscis long, 

 nearly as long as the whole body. 



Thorax black, with long narrow-curved bronzy-black scales 

 and with a broad median silvery-white line running from the 

 front of the mesothorax to about its middle ; numerous long 

 black bristles project in front and over the roots of the wings ; 

 scutellum black, very deeply trilobed, the mid lobe with dense 

 flat silvery-white scales, the lateral lobes with flat black scales ; 

 there are also a few black ones bordering the posterior edge of 

 the mid lobe which has five brown bristles ; metanotum black 

 and shiny ; pleurae brown, with silvery-white spots. 



Abdomen narrow basally, broadening to the apex which is 



