Genus Hulecoeteomyia. 219 



of the second tarsal ; hind femora with a pale area near the 

 base on one side ; base of hind first tarsal with a narrow pale 

 band, of second and third hind tarsals with broad pale bands ; 

 fore and mid ungues uniserrate, hind equal and simple. 



Wings with the first sub-marginal cell longer and narrower 

 than the second posterior cell, its base about level with that of 

 the latter, its stem a little more than half the length of the cell ; 

 stem of the second posterior two-thirds the length of the cell ; 

 posterior cross-vein longer than the mid nearly twice its own 

 length distant from it. 



Length. — 3 mm. 



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



Observations. — Described from a single ? . It can at once be 

 told from H. greenii, Theobald, by the lines on the thorax, 

 unbanded abdomen and banded hind legs. 



Genus HULECOETEOMYIA. Theobald. 



The Entomologist, Vol. XXXVII., p. 163 (1904). 



Head mostly covered with flat scales, but there is a pro- 

 nounced median area of narrow-curved scales, which also exist 

 along the nape and around the eyes. Palpi short in the female ; 

 in the male the palpi are long, but shorter than the proboscis, thin 

 and devoid of hair-tufts ; the apical segment about half the length 

 of the penultimate. Scutellum with a rosette of flat and some- 

 what spindle-shaped scales to mid -lobe, scattered ones of similar 

 form on lateral lobes ; prothoracic lobes with small flat scales ; 

 fork-cells small. 



This genus can at once be told by the cephalic characters, 

 and by the scutellar scales, which, as pointed out by Dr. 

 Leicester, differ entirely from those in Stegomyia. I have not 

 yet detected any scales in the Culicina like those on the scutellum 

 in this genus ; they are somewhat difficult to make out in form, 

 but apparently are all rounded apically, not pointed as in true 

 spindle-shaped scales. 



Two species have so far been taken. They might easily be 

 mistaken for Stegomyias unless microscopically examined. Giles' 

 Stegomyia pseudotaeniata, from Northern India, is the second 

 species. 



