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Genus Stegomyia . 
the segments with a basal white hand except the last; some 
large black chaetae at the apices of the segments in the hind 
legs; fore and mid ungues uniserrate, hind simple. 
Wings with typical large brown Stegomyian scales on the 
basal region, dense narrow linear ones on the apical areas of the 
veins ; the first sub-marginal cell longer and narrower than the 
second posterior, their bases nearly level. Stem of the first fork¬ 
cell about half the length of the cell; stem of the second posterior 
about two-thirds the length of the cell; posterior cross-vein nearly 
twice its own length distant from the mid. 
Length.f$-2 • 5 mm. 
Habitat. —Sukna, 500 feet, base of E. Himalayas, Darjiling 
district (1ST. Annandale). 
Time of capture. —1. vii. 08. 
Observations .—Described from three 9’s. One of the smallest 
Stegomyias I have seen. It can easily be told by the thoracic 
ornamentation and the white round spot on the femora of the 
mid legs. One specimen was taken in a bungalow. 
Type in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 
Stegomyia albipes. Theobald (1910). 
Rec. Ind. Mus. 11, IY. (1910). 
Thorax brown, a small silvery-white patch in front and a 
white scaled line running down to the base of the wings where 
there is a large snowy-white patch extending on to the dorsum. 
Head black, white in the middle; palpi black with snowy apex; 
proboscis black. Abdomen black with narrow basal white bands 
and large snowy-white lateral basal spots. Legs with broad 
basal white bands, last two hind tarsi white; mid femora and 
tibiae with a median white round spot. 
9 . Head black, clothed with flat black scales at the sides, 
white in the middle • chaetae black; proboscis and clypeus 
black; palpi black with snowy-white apices; antennae dark 
brown, basal segment with dense flat snowy-white scales. 
Thorax dark with narrow-curved deep bronzy-brown scales, 
snowy-white ones forming a broadish line in front and extending 
laterally towards the wings before which they spread out into a 
large white patch which passes on to the dorsum, this is com¬ 
posed of narrow-curved scales above and flat ones below ; there 
is also a white line of narrow-curved scales on each side just past 
the roots of the wings and a few white scales here and there 
