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the eyes and dull grey flat scales at the sides, some black bristles pro¬ 
jecting forwards; palpi, clypeus and proboscis deep brown; antennæ 
deep brown, basal joint with a few grey scales and the pubescence dull 
grey. Thorax deep brown, fore two-thirds clothed with rather large sil¬ 
very white narrow-curved scales, remainder with similar bronzy scales, 
black bristles project forward over the head; scutellum black with flat 
black to bronzy scales ; metanotum deep brown ; prothoracic lobes red¬ 
dish-brown or deep brown according to the light, with a few deep brown 
bristles, pleurae brown with silvery spots. Abdomen black, the fifth, sixth 
and seventh segments with basal white bands and traces of basal lateral- 
spots; venter brown with basal silvery bands. 
Legs deep brown ; base and venter of femora grey ; coxae brown ; 
fore and mid ungues small, equal and uniserrated, hind equal and simple. 
Wings with the first submarginal longer, but very little narrower 
than the second posterior cell, its base nearer the base of the wing, its 
stem rather more than half the length of the cell ; stem of the second 
posterior about as long as the cell ; posterior cross-vein rather more than 
its own length distant from the mid cross-vein. Halteres with grey stem 
and widely expanded fuscous knob. 
Length : 3 mm. 
Habitat: Singapore (Biró, 1902). 
Time of capture : January. 
Observations : Described from a single £ . It bears a close resem¬ 
blance to Stegomyia nivea Ludlow but can at once be told by the fore 
and mid ungues being uniserrated, not simple and by the femora being 
dark above, not white as in nivea. 
Genus SCUTOMYIA Theob. 
The Entomologist, p. 77. 1904. 
1. Scutomyia notoscripta Skuse. 
Culex notoscripta Skuse (1896); Stegomyia notoscripta Skuse, 
Theob. (1901). 
Monogr. Culicid. I. p. 286. (1901) Theobald. 
A large series from the following places: Singapore (Biró) 1902; 
New Guinea: Muina 1900, Seleo, Berlinhafen 1896, Friedrich-Wilhelms¬ 
hafen 1900; Ins. Graget (Bíró) ; Australia, Sydney, N. S. W. (Biró, 1900). 
Also recorded from : Queensland, N. S. Wales, India. 
