Genus Anisocheleomi/ia. 573 



Anisocheleomyia alboannulata. Theobald (1905). 

 The Entomologist, Vol. XXXVIII., p. 51 (1905). 



Head black, with a narrow white line around the eyes with 

 very long white projecting scales in front between them ; pro- 

 boscis black with a white patch above near the apex and another 

 large white patch near the base. 



Thorax deep brown, with a narrow silvery white line around 

 the end of the mesonotum up to the base of the wings, and 

 another more irregular one on the brown pleurae. 



Abdomen black and snow white, ornamented with median 

 white areas and white segments. Legs black, the hind pair with 

 broad apical white bands, and the last two segments white ; 

 femora of all with white spots. 



Wings ornamented, costal border black, veins white-scaled 

 with two broad dusky bands running across them. 



<J . Head black, clothed with small flat black scales, and a 

 border of similar white ones around the eyes, which show pale 

 blue reflections in certain lights under the two-third power, in 

 front between the eyes projects a tuft of very long white scales, 

 there are also scattered small upright black forked scales and a 

 small basal median blue patch ; antennae deep brown, basal 

 segment black, base of second segment reddish brown ; palpi 

 very small, black-scaled ; proboscis black, a large silvery- white 

 patch towards the base, and a smaller one on the dorsum nearer 

 the apex. 



Thorax deep brown, with narrow-curved bronzy scales, a 

 narrow white border around the front and sides of the 

 mesonotum composed of broad curved scales, which appear pale 

 blue in certain lights, ending about the roots of the wings ; 

 scutellum deep brown, clothed with small flat deep brown 

 scales, very distinctly trilobed, the mid lobe large with four 

 border-bristles ; chaetae of mesothorax and scutellum black ; 

 metanotum black ; pleurae brown, with a narrow wavy white- 

 scaled line running along it from the base of the abdomen to the 

 head, and a few white puncta near the base of the legs. 



Abdomen black and silvery-white, the first segment mostly 

 white-scaled, the second and third with a white median patch, 

 the fourth all white, the fifth black with a few apical white 

 scales, the sixth all white, the apical one black and white. 



Fore legs deep brown with a spot at the apex of the femora, 

 and a trace at the apex of the tibiae \ mid legs with two white 



