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Stegomyia minutissima. Theobald (1910). 
Rec. Ind. Mus. 9, IV. (1910). 
Head black, a white border to eyes and white median spot in 
front between them; palpi black with white apices; proboscis 
black. Thorax deep brown with a small grey scaled area in 
front, grey scales in front of the roots of the wings and three 
short creamy lines behind. Abdomen black with narrow white 
basal bands and white lateral spots. Legs dark brown with 
basal white bands; mid femora with a marked median white 
spot and white apex; bind femora white at base. Very small 
species. 
9 . Head clothed with flat black scales, a large median 
triangular white scaled area in front and a pale border to the eyes ; 
clypeus dark brown; palpi black with snowy-white apices ; 
proboscis black; antennae deep brown, basal segment with white 
scales ; some golden-brown cbaetae project between the eyes. 
Thorax black, the greater surface clothed with bronzy-brown 
long narrow-curved scales, a small area near the bead and a 
small wedge-shaped area on each side in front of the wings with 
dull white scales, some pale creamy scales which form three 
indistinct lines behind in some lights; scutellum with flat black 
scales with dull violet reflections and some white ones on the 
lateral lobes; pleurae brown with flat white scaled spots. 
Cbaetae brown and black. 
Abdomen black with narrow basal white bands and basal 
snowy-white lateral spots. 
Legs deep brown; the first pair with a basal white band to 
the first tarsal, the mid with a median white spot on the femora, 
Fig. 61. 
Wing of Stegomyia minutissima. ?. Theobald. 
the apex white and a basal V/hite band to the metatarsal and 
first tarsal; the bind with the femora white at the base, and all 
