172 A Monograph of Culicidae. 
Stegomyia africana. Theobald (1901).* 
Mono. Cnlicid. I., 304 (1901), IV., 188 (1907), Theobald. 
Mashonaland, Sierra Leone, Lagos, Zoruta, Congo Free State, 
Old Calabar. 
Additional locality .—Bank of Kukema River, Bihe, Angola, 
30. i. and 3. ii. 05 (2 9’s) (Wellman). 
Stegomyia apicoargentea. nov. sp. 
Head black with silvery-white central spot and white eye- 
borders ; palpi and proboscis deep brown, the former snow-white at 
apex. Thorax deep brown with two large round silvery-white spots 
and a small anterior median one ; prothoracic lobes white, and a 
small white spot at the base of the wings; pleurae with white 
puncta. Abdomen dusky black, last three segments with basal 
silvery spots, all the segments with basal lateral silvery spots, 
and the venter with basal white bands. Fore and mid legs with 
basal creamy bands to metatarsi and first tarsal; hind with an 
additional band on the second tarsal, and nearly all the third 
white ; femora of fore and mid legs with a white spot below near 
apex, apex white; in the hind legs base of under side white, and 
also apex and the tibiae have a white spot beneath near base. 
9 . Head clothed with black scales ; a median line of white 
scales, white scales around the eyes and at the back, at the sides 
some dark upright forked scales and black chaetae. Clypeus and 
proboscis black; palpi black with snowy-white apical scales; 
antennae black, the second segment with black scales; eyes 
coppery. 
Thorax black, with long narrow-curved bronzy scales, a 
silvery-white median patch in front, two silvery spots about the 
middle, and a small patch on each side in front of the roots of 
the wings, composed of densely packed spindle-shaped scales, 
deep brown chaetae over the roots of the wings and behind; 
scutellum with large black and white flat scales and brown 
border-bristles; metanotum black ; prothoracic lobes with flat 
white scales; pleurae deep brown with patches of flat white 
scales. 
Abdomen deep brownish black, the fifth to seventh segments 
with large silvery-white basal patches, and a small one on the 
* This must be removed to the r genus Kingia, owing to the flat scaled 
median area on the thorax. 
