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J ,° ln . ts l . lark brown with silvery down and dark brown verticils. Clvpeu 
dark chestnut-brown. Palpi yellowish-brown, four-jointed, first join 
constricted m the middle fourth joint very small, clothed with black spatu 
ate scales except towards the tip which is white scaled. The amount o 
this white scaling varies, in one specimen it includes little more than thi 
last joint, in another one it includes half the penultimate joint. Proboscii 
yellowish-brown, black scaled dorsally and laterally, white beneath 
About half-way white scales appear laterally and may even go right rounc 
orming a complete band. In some specimens there is no band on the 
proboscis. 
TW-Prothoracic lobes brown, prominent, white scaled. Meso 
notum dark brown clothed with narrow-curved scales dark bronze-browr 
under a hand lens but under 2/3 the tips show pale golden. There 
is a central line of pale golden scales which forks in front of the scutellurr 
enclosing an unsealed area, on either side in front there is another lint 
w ich runs back about one-third the total distance and placed a little 
ur er out behind on either side is another line running forwards from the 
scutellurrland endingjust a little to one side of the anterior lateral line, 
and another golden line over the root of each wing and on the anterior 
margin just above the prothoracic lobes are scattered white scales. There 
are numerous black bristles arranged in lines. The scutellum is fawny- 
brown; on the central lobe there is a patch of black short clavate scales 
arranged m a rosette with a central line of creamy-white scales which are 
narrow-curved scales at the apex of scutellum; the lateral lobes have a 
few black narrow curved scales. The scutellum is not heavily scaled and 
the scales are quite unlike those of an ordinary Stegomyia there are four to 
six bristles on the central lobe two of which are pale golden four black. 
Pleurae dark brown with patches of broad white scales. Wings clad with 
b ack scales, median rather long and narrow spatulate, lateral lanceolate. 
At the base of the costa is a patch of white scales. Fork cells of moderate 
ength, first sub-marginal longer and narrower than second posterior, its 
base nearer wing base, cell longer than its stem ; supernumerary and mid 
cross veins meeting at an angle, posterior cross vein twice its own length 
from mid cross vein. Coxae creamy-yellow; femora of fore and mid legs 
black scaled dorsally and laterally, white scaled beneath, with a ring of 
golden-brown spines around apex; tibiae same as femora minus the spines 
except t at the extreme apex is clothed with a few creamy-yellow scales ; 
metatarsus and first tarsal joint basally banded creamy-yellow, the remainder 
scaled black. Ungues equal and uni-serrate; hind .femora scaled as the 
others except the middle third of the anterior and posterior surfaces which 
is creamy; knee spot creamy; tibia entirely black scaled with four lines of 
short white spines running down its whole length; metatarsus basally 
banded, first two tarsal joints very broadly basally banded with creamy scales. 
Ungues equal and simple. Metanotum dark chestnut-brown. Halteres 
with black scaled stems and white scaled knobs. 
Abdomen —-Black scaled, except for a few white scales at the bases of 
the segments after the second (which scarcely amounts to basal banding) in 
some specimens, and laterally there are triangular patches of white scales 
and ventrally the segments are basally banded white. 
