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164 A Monograph of Culicidae. 
Antennae blackish-brown, basal segment dark, the inner side 
of the latter with snowy-white scales. 
Thorax black, clothed with small narrow-curved bronzy-brown 
scales, a small median patch of similar shaped white scales 
against the head, composed of two rows, suddenly narrowing into 
a thin single median line running back to the bare space in front 
of the scutellum. A large silvery-white patch of broader curved 
scales on each side and a thin white line (sub-median) running 
back from near each side to the scutellum, parallel with the 
Fig. 58. 
Stegomyia wellmanii. n. sp. 
Thoracic adornment 
median line; a smaller white spot in front of the roots of the wings 
on each side ; prothoracic lobes white scaled; scutellum black 
with flat white scales, showing dull reflections in the middle ; all 
the chaetae jet black ; metanotum black ; pleurae with prominent 
white puncta. 
Abdomen black, second segment with a narrow creamy basal 
band, the others with a few basal creamy scales or complete basal 
bands ; the apical with a basal median white spot and prominent 
basal lateral white spots, there are lateral snowy spots; posterior 
border-bristles pale golden ; venter with prominent basal white 
bands. 
Legs jet black, base of under side of femora white, apex snowy- 
white, a small white spot at apex of tibiae; fore and mid meta¬ 
tarsi and first tarsals with' a basal snowy-white band; in the 
hind legs the metatarsi, first and second tarsals with a basal 
