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before the scutellum ; supra-alar chaetae black ; scutellum 
clothed with rather large flat snowy-white scales ; metanotum 
black ; pleurae black with silvery-white puncta. 
Abdomen black with narrow basal snowy-white bands and 
very large basal lateral white spots-; posterior border-bristles 
pale, short. 
Legs black with white bands and spots; the fore femora 
pale at the base below, fore tibiae with a white median spot; 
knee spot white ; a white band to metatarsi and first tarsals ; 
mid femora with prominent white median spot (almost a band), 
a smaller one basally and white apex, .metatarsi and first tarsal 
basally white; hind femora white basally and on most of the 
under side, apex white; tibiae with a white band on the apical 
half, metatarsi and first two tarsals basally snowy-white, and all 
the last two tarsalschaetae black ; ungues equal and simple. 
Wings with dark scales, base pale; first sub-marginal cell 
longer and narrower than the second posterior, its base nearer 
the base of the wing, its stem about half the length of the 
cell; stem of the second posterior about as long as the cell; 
posterior cross-vein rather more than twice its own length 
distant from the mid. Halteres with testaceous stem and 
deep fuscous knob. 
Length. —3 mm. 
Habitat .—Maddathoray, W. base of W. Ghats, Travancore 
(1ST. Annandale). 
Time of capture'. —17. xi. 08. 
Observations. —■ Described from a perfect J . At once 
separated from any other Stegomyia , except pseudonigeria , by 
the last two hind tarsals being white and by the thoracic orna¬ 
mentation, especially by the pre-alar white patch being composed 
of narrow-curved scales above, flat ones below. The femoral and 
tibial markings are also very distinctive. 
Type in the Indian Museum-, Calcutta. 
Stegomyia dubxa. nov. sp. 
9 . Head black, with pale median and lateral areas and 
silvery-white around the eyes ; elypeus, proboscis and antennae 
black ; palpi black with snow-white apices. 
Thorax black (denuded), some flat white lateral scales; 
black and white scales on lateral lobes of scutellum. 
Abdomen black, the fifth segment with yellow basal band and 
