136 ^ 
,4 Monograph of Culicidae. 
This genus is very near Quasistegomyia, Theobald, but can be 
told at once by the flat white lateral scales. 
Kingia luteocephala. Newstead (1907). 
Stegomyia luteocephala. Newstead (1907). 
Ann. Trop. Med. and Parasit I., No. 1, 15 (1907). 
“ Head yellow. Palpi black with white tips. Thorax 
brown, with two large, anterior, lateral silvery spots, a median 
yellow stripe and posterior lateral yellow spots ; scutellum white. 
Abdomen black with pale narrow bands, terminal segments 
silvery. Legs black with silvery spots and white banded tarsi. 
Eig. 48. 
Kingia luteocephala. $. Newstead (after Xewstead). 
(Cephalic adornment.) 
9 . Head with 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 
eyes, formed of a single series of broad, flat, closely appressed 
scales; between the marginal line and the central yellow patch 
is a broad band of brownish-black scales; nape with a few long, 
thick, straight or slightly curved pale golden scales, on either 
side of which is a group of upright forked scales, intermixed 
black and yellow; lower basal portion with flat 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. 
