266 A Monograph of Culicidae. 



Pecomyia maculata. Theobald (1905). 

 Journ. Econ. Biol. Vol. L, No. 1, p. 24 (1905). 



Head brown, with dull greyish and ochreous scales ; proboscis 

 ochreous, mottled with black scales, black at the apex; palpi 

 ochreous, mottled with black scales. 



Thorax brown, clothed with dull grey and dull golden-brown 

 scales, paler behind, and with traces of linear ornamentation ; 

 scutellum w T ith grey scales. 



Abdomen deep brown, with basal white bands. Wings 

 mottled with brown and grey scales ; halteres very pale ochreous. 

 Legs ochreous, mottled with deep brown scales, tarsi dark brown, 

 some of the segments with basal pale bands. 



? . Head brown, densely clothed with dull grey narrow- 

 curved scales, with some similar shaped ochreous ones in front, 





Fig. 82. 

 Wing of Pecomyia maculata. 9 . Theobald. 



dark brown upright forked scales, flat dark brown, then white 

 lateral ones, and with deep brown bristles projecting forward 

 over the eyes. Palpi deep ochreous, with blackish scales, tips of 

 the apical segment grey ; proboscis ochreous, with scattered deep 

 brown scales, so dense at the apex that it is quite black ; 

 antennae brown, with narrow pale bands at the junction of the 

 segments. Thorax deep brown, clothed with grey and dull 

 golden-brown narrow-curved scales, becoming almost white in 

 front of the scutellum, traces of linear ornamentation seen in 

 some lights, bristles deep brown ; scutellum deep brown, the mid 

 lobe with grey, almost white, narrow-curved scales, and a few 

 small flat ones mixed with them ; lateral lobes with rather narrow 

 flat white scales, and a few narrow-curved ones at the edges : 

 border-bristles rich brown ; metanotum deep brown. 



Abdomen deep brown with dull violet reflections and white 

 basal bands, basal segment with grey scales and Very pallid 

 bristles ; border-bristles pallid. 



