T 5 
Breeding places :—Larvae were taken from water collected in ol«l 
pots and tins and from a font containing holy water in a mission 
building. Imagines were bred from them. 
Stegomyia luteocephala, n. sp. (Newstead) 
(PI. ii, fig. 5) 
Head yellow. Palpi black with white tips. Thorax brown, with 
two large, anterior, lateral silvery spots, a median yellow stripe, .uni 
posterior lateral yellow spots ; scutellum white. Abdomen black with 
pale narrow bands, terminal segments silvery. Legs black with 
silvery spots and white-banded tarsi. 
FEMALE.— Head with the large central area thickly clothed with 
large, loose, flat yellow scales, gradually merging into smoky yellow in 
front; a narrow silvery-white line to the anterior half of the eves 
formed of a single series of broad, flat, closely appressed scale . 
between the marginal line and the central yellow patch is a broad 
band of brownish-black scales, from which, anteriorly, arise several 
upright forked scales ; nape with a few long, thick, straight or slight h 
curved, pale golden scales, on either side of which is a group of upright 
forked scales, intermixed black and yellow ; lower basal portion with ll.u, 
dusky-white scales, the marginal ones forming two dull silvery spots, 
sharply divided by a dense black spot. Antennae black, nodes white 
hairs black; pubescence grey. Palpi black; tips with long silver) 
white scales. Thorax : Prothoracic lobes with flat silvery white - >1« - 
mesothorax with a well-defined median line and two lateral spots of 
narrow-curved, golden-yellow scales; anteriorly there arc also two 
large spots of flat silvery-white scales, and a few silvery-white sc. ties 
on the lower margin of the posterior yellow spots; the rest of the 
mesothorax with rich dark brown scales; scutellum with flat silvery 
white scales; pleurae dark brown with two large patches of silver) 
scales. Abdomen rich bronzy-brown; segments i to 6 each with 
well-defined, narrow, basal band of smoky-yellow scales; penult in at- 
segment with a large lateral patch, and the terminal segment almost 
covered with brilliant metallic-silvery scales; venter with well-defined 
more or less triangular patches of metallic-silvery scales narrowing 
towards the apex, where they appear as two divergent lines; tin 
scales forming the outer lateral angles of the spots projecting .«t the 
sides of the abdomen appearing as outstanding scales. Legs hron/v 
