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and silvery white rather large narrow-curved scales, the white ones forming 
a solid W-shaped area in front and a white line curving round in front 
of the wing to the pleura on each side, enclosing an oval chestnut-brown 
area and a few scattered white scales in front of the scutellum; the 
white scales apparently slightly broader than the brown ; scutellum with 
flat scales, the basal ones black, the apical silvery white, border-bristles 
rich brown, five (?) to the mid lobe ; there are also numerous long brown 
bristles over the roots of the wings ; metanotum deep brown ; pleuræ 
brown with large sii very-white puncta ; pro thoracic lobes with white scales. 
Abdomen black with narrow basal white bands which spread out 
slightly at the sides, large basal white lateral spots ; venter dark, with 
basal white bands. 
Fore legs dark brown, the metatarsi and first tarsals with narrow 
basal white bands, and there is a white spot beneath the apex of the 
femora ; mid legs with a prominent round white spot on one side in the 
middle of the femora ; apex of femora white ; metatarsi and first two 
tarsals basaily white-banded ; the hind femora pale yellow on their basal 
two-thirds, apex white, remainder deep brown, metatarsi and tarsi with 
broad white bands ; ungues of the fore and mid legs rather small, equal, 
uniserrated, teeth fine. 
Wings with the first submarginal cell longer and slightly narrower 
than the second posterior cell, its stem about half the length of the cell, 
its base about level with the base of the second posterior cell, stem of 
the latter as long as the cell; posterior cross-vein nearly three times its 
own length distant from the mid cross-vein ; halteres with yellow stem 
and black knob. 
Length : 3*8 mm. 
Habitat: India orientalis, Matheran (Biró, 1902). 
Observations : Described from a single perfect female. It can be told 
at once from all known Stegomyiae by the marked thoracic adornment, 
the large solid white W-shaped mark in front being easily noticed, also 
by the prominent round white spot on the side of the mid femora. 
4. Stegomyia pseudonivea n. sp. 
Head clothed with flat black scales and a narrow grey border round 
the eyes; palpi and proboscis black. Thorax with the front half silvery 
white, remainder bronzy brown. Legs deep brown, unbanded, venter and 
extreme base of femora grey. Ungues equal and uniserrated. 
2 . Head clothed with flat dark brown scales, showing bright violet 
reflections in certain lights, a narrow grey border of flat scales around 
