Genus Aedeomyia. 221 
white scales and a yellow apex, tibiae with seven white bands, 
the last apical ; metatarsi with two or three narrow white 
bands and white apex; first tarsal joint basally white, apical, 
Fig. 261. 
Aedeomyia squammipenna, Arribalzaga. 
I. Leg tuft; II. Wing fringe ; III. Apex of male antenna ; 
IV. Female ungues ; Y. Male ungues (fore). 
half dark with a crown of white scales, second tarsal joint white, 
with a narrow black band near the apex and a crown of white 
scales round the apex, third the same, fourth almost pure white, 
with some black scales beneath at the apex. 
Wings densely scaled with broad purple and yellow scales; on 
the costa are three clear white patches, the two middle ones 
forming two bands partly across the wing, the apical one also 
continuing as a broken band around the end of the wing ; there 
is also a white patch between each band in the middle of the 
wing field. Border-scales narrow, double rowed and broad at 
the base of the border. 
Halteres with pale stem and dark knob. 
Length .—4 to 4 • 5 mm. 
£. Head dark brown, with creamy scales in the middle, 
deep ochraceous ones at the sides, and then a few pale ones 
below; palpi short, covered with black and white scales in 
broken bands; proboscis black scaled, with two white bands 
towards the middle and white scales beneath near the tip (there 
is also a bare ochraceous band towards the tip which should 
probably be clothed with black scales), and a white patch looking 
like a band on the upper side near the base; antennae banded 
