Genus Stegomyia . 173 
eighth segment; border-bristles dark; each segment with basal 
white lateral patches, large on basal segments, becoming linear 
on the apical ones, venter dark with broad basal white bands. 
Legs dark with basal banding ; the fore and mid metatarsi 
and first tarsal segments with basal creamy bands * the fore 
femora with traces of white scales near the apex forming a spot, 
very prominent on mid femora, apex white especially in the mid 
legs, paler scales below at the base ; hind femora white below at 
the base and apex ; metatarsi arid first two tarsals with basal white 
bands, nearly all the third tarsals white, apical one black ; 
ungues of fore and mid legs equal and uniserrate, hind equal 
and simple. 
Wings with the first submarginal cell longer and narrower 
than the second posterior cell, its base nearer the base of the 
wing, its stem about one-third the length of the cell, stem of the 
Fig. 63. 
Wing of Stegomyia apicoargentea. ?. nov. sp. 
second posterior more than half the length of the cell; posterior 
cross-vein not quite three times its own length distant from the 
mid. Halteres with base of stem ferruginous, apex fuscous and 
also knob. 
Length .—4 mm. 
Time of capture. —7. viii. 07 and 9. ix. 07. 
Habitat .—Obuasi and Kumasi (Dr. Graham). 
Observations . — Two § ? s both taken in hush, one at 5 p.m. at 
Kumasi. Dr. Graham says specimens taken in hush paths 
outside Obuasi and outside Kumasi in August and October, 
from 2 to 5 p.m. Described from a perfect J . The marked 
thoracic ornamentation and the leg handing combined will at 
once separate it from all other African Stegomyia. 
Type in the British Museum. 
