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Halteres with deep ochraceous stem and fuscous knob. 
Length .—4 * 8 mm. 
Habitat. —Bonny. 
Time of capture. —May. 
Observations .—Described from a single 9 in Dr. Annett’s 
collection. The specimen was taken in a native hut by Dr. 
Annett. 
It can at once be told by the entire covering of black scales 
on the head and the rather long curved bronzy scales on the 
thorax and the unbanded abdomen. 
Stegomyia pipersalata. Giles. 
(Handbook Mosq., 2nd edit. 1901.) 
The following is Colonel Giles’s description of this species :— 
“ Wings densely clothed with, for the most part, black scales; hut on 
the costa, and along the bases of the long wings, are scattered snowy 
scales. Tarsal joints moderately broadly basally. banded with snowy 
white; on all of the hind, the upper three of the mid, and the upper two 
of the joints of the fore leg. Thorax, black-grounded, clothed with 
narrow curved, mouse-coloured scales, with some whitish ones laterally 
which form indistinct curved markings. Abdomen sooty, with snowy 
lateral spots on the bases of the segments, which, in the $ , especially on 
the anterior segments, may be connected to form narrow bands. Pro¬ 
boscis banded in the d , but not distinctly so in the $ . 
“Head, with black forked scales, and mouse-coloured long narrow 
ones. Antennae fuscous, those of the d about equalling the proboscis in 
length. Palpi of ? black, with whitish tips; of the male, very little 
longer than the proboscis; first joint minute, second and third sub-equal, 
and together nearly as long as the proboscis, with an indistinct band on the 
articulation between them, placed a good deal inside the band on the pro¬ 
boscis, last two joints short and sub-equal, a band between them and the 
third, and all the end joint whitish. Proboscis black at the base, 
testaceous at the tip, with a broad band of white, well beyond the middle, 
in the d , but barely perceptible in the ? . Legs, with a patch of white 
scales just above the tips of the femora in the d , but not in the ? . 
The wings, legs and all other appendages are most curiously brindled 
with a mixture of snowy and black scales, the latter greatly preponderating, 
so that the insect looks peppered and salted. No other mosquito, at all 
likely to be mistaken for this species, has this mixture of white with 
black scales on the wings. 
“ Length. —About 8 mm. 
“ Habitat. —Jhansi and Gonda, N. W. Provinces, India.” 
Note. —Colonel Giles has presented the types of this species 
to the Museum. It is very distinct and can at once be told 
from any other Indian species by the mottled wings. It is a 
distinct Stegomyia. 
