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patch, some black chaetae in front; palpi black scaled with 
broad snowy-white apices; proboscis black ; antennae deep 
brown, basal segment with dense snowy-white scales. 
Thorax shiny black, clothed with long bronzy-brown narrow- 
curved scales, except for a small snowy-white patch of similar 
scales in fr6nt and a patch of flat snowy-white scales over the 
base of the wings on each side ; supra-alar chaetae dense, black 
and long ; scutellum with the mid lobe clothed with flat black 
scales, the lateral lobes with flat white scales ; border bristles 
black; metanotum deep brown ; pleurae dark with numerous 
white patches of scales. 
Abdomen black with four snowy-white basal bands on the last 
four segments, which broaden out laterally, the two preceding 
segments with basal white lateral spots. 
Legs black, the fore and mid with basal white bands on the 
metatarsi and first tarsal; the hind with a basal white band on 
the metatarsi and first tarsal segments, the second all dark, the 
third nearly all white, the fourth dark ; ungues apparently all 
simple. 
Wings with brown scales | fork-cells short, the first sub¬ 
marginal longer and narrower than the second posterior, its base 
a little nearer the base of the wing than that of the second 
posterior, its stem about two-thirds the length of the cell; stem 
of the second posterior nearly as long as the cell; posterior 
cross-vein rather more than twice its own length distant from 
the mid. 
Length. —2*8 mm. 
Habitat. —Sukna, 500 feet, Himalayas. 
Time of capture .—vii. 08 (Annandale). 
Observations. — Described from a single perfect 9 • It 
resembles Stegomyia minutissima, but can at once be told by 
the banding of the posterior legs and still more definitely by 
the flat white scales forming the lateral thoracic patches. The 
specimen was taken in a bungalow. 
Type in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 
