Abdomen .—Black scaled with traces of snowy basal bands on the apical 
segments and large lateral spots which diminish in size from base to apex; 
venter retracted and invisible. 
Occurrence .—Described from two females both taken in jungle off the 
Gombak Road five miles from Kuala Lumpur. This patch of jungle is 
the only place I have ever seen this mosquito for though I have only 
two specimens preserved I have taken several but always in the same place. 
Remarks .—In some respects it resembles S. Nivea but the white patch 
is broken up into three and is not one solid mass as in Nivea. It differs 
from S. Gubernatoris in the thoracic ornamentation, in the leg banding and 
the colour of the scales on the scutellum. It is a robustly built insect 
! having a very broad thorax and is a fairly typical stegomyia though the 
head and scutellar scales are not nearly as broad as those in similar 
situations on Scutellaris and S. Fasciata. The specimens were captured in 
the early part of the year in February and March. 
Stegomyia Dissimilis. n. sp. 
A medium-sized slender mosquito with a black scaled thorax in the 
female and a golden scaled one in the male. The fore and mid legs are 
unbanded ; the hind thighs are white basally and at the apex. The abdomen 
is unbanded dorsally but basally banded ventrally with large square pearly- 
white spots laterally. 
Female Head —Black, entirely flat scaled; in the centre is a large elliptical 
patch of purple-black, on the vertex is a triangular patch of broad 
white scales and from this a narrow band of white scales runs outwards on 
either side along the orbital margins to a lateral patch of pale scales which 
run backwards to the occipital foramen and laterally as far round as one can 
see; towards the front these scales are pearly-white but behind they are a 
pale golden-brown: there is a small spot of purple scales placed against the 
eye on either side, which varies in size even on the two sides in the sai ^ e 
specimen on one side of the specimen here described it is very small while 
on the other side it is much larger triangular in shape and divides the large 
patch of pale scales into two; on the nape there are inserted about three 
rows of brown upright forked scales; the vertical bristles are dark brown, 
the orbital pale brown. Basal joint of antenna black and nude, second joint 
pale brown at the base black apically, and swollen in the middle where there 
is a ring of small black spatulate scales inserted, remaining joints 
entirely black clothed with numerous white hairs; verticillate hairs, purple- 
black with pale tips. Clypeus black, strongly ridged transversely ; nude. 
Palpi scaled with purple-black scales, with a few strong hairs inserted on 
the basal joints. Proboscis scaled like the palpi; labellae black. 
Thorax .—Prothoracic lobes black, with several strong dark brown or 
black bristles inserted on the upper surface and a patch of pearly-white 
broad scales inserted on the lower half of the outer face. Mesonotum 
black, with a large quadrangular patch of broad pearly-white scales inserted 
on the shoulders, and a small elliptical patch of similar scales in front of the 
wing base, the rest of the mesonotum being covered with narrow-curved 
scales chiefly purple-black though there are some golden-brown scales 
