Genus Stegomyia. 
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Stegomyia gebeleinensis. nov. sp. 
Head as in scutellaris. Thorax rich brown with a rather 
broad median white line in front, and where it terminates a 
small white spot on each side, pleurae white scaled, scutellum 
white scaled. Abdomen black with narrow basal silvery-white 
bands on the dorsum and venter. Legs black with narrow basal 
white bands on some of the joints. 
9 . Head as in scutellaris. Thorax black, clothed with 
small narrow-curved bronzy-brown scales, a rather broad median 
white scaled line, running from the front to about the middle, 
narrowing posteriorly, where 
it ends is a small white scaled 
spot on each side of similar 
scales, and just interior to 
these run two indistinct paler 
scaled lines back to the scu¬ 
tellum, paler scales also be¬ 
fore the scutellum, which is 
covered with flat white scales 
and has black border-bristles ; 
metanotum dark brown; pleu¬ 
rae dark with dense rather 
loose flat white scales, es¬ 
pecially above; prothoracic 
lobes with flat white scales. 
Legs damaged; the fe¬ 
mora white scaled at the base; 
the mid pair with a narrow 
and first tarsal. 
Eig. 53. 
Stegomyia gebeleinensis. <j>. n. sp. 
Thoracic adornment. 
pale basal band to the metatarsi 
Wings with typical stegomyia scales ; fork-cells short, the 
first longer and slightly narrower than the second, their bases 
nearly level, stem of the first nearly as long as the cell; stem of 
the second as long as the cell; posterior cross vein not quite 
three times its own length distant from the mid. 
Abdomen black with narrow basal snow-white bands which 
spread out laterally, basal segment all dark scaled; border- 
bristles pale golden and brown ; venter dark with basal white 
bands. 
Length .—3 * 5 mm. 
Habitat. —Gebelein, Sudan (H.^King). 
Observations .—described from a damaged 9 . Mr. King 
