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A Monograph of Culicidae . 
Stegomyia terrens. Walker (1856) $ . 
Culex terrens. Walker (1856). 
Ins. Saund. 429 (1856), Walker (1856); Mono. Culicid. I., 305 and 423 
(1901), Theobald. 
S. America. 
Type in the British Museum. 
Stegomyia grantii. Theobald (1901). 
Mono. Cnlicidae I., 306 (1901); Nat. Hist. Sokotra, 360 (1903). 
Sokotra. 
Type in the British Museum. 
Stegomyia mediopunctata. Theobald (1905). 
Jonrn. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. XVI., 240 (1905); Mono. Culicid. IV., 187 
(1907), Theobald. 
Peradeniya, Ceylon. 
Type in the British Museum. 
Stegomyia assamensis. Theobald (1908). 
Bee. Ind. Mus. II., pt. iii., No. 30, 290 (1908), Theobald. 
Thorax deep brown, a white scaled area in front less than 
one-fourth the area of the mesothorax and a small scaled patch 
in front of the root of each wing. Abdomen deep brown, 
unbanded with basal lateral white spots, the scales raggedly 
arranged below. Legs brown, a pale spot near apex of fore and 
mid tibiae, a basal pale band to mid metatarsi, hind femora pale, 
except for a brown band in the middle, base and apex of 
metatarsi white, base of first hind tarsal white. Proboscis 
deep brown. 
9 . Head black, clothed with flat black scales and some 
white ones in the middle, a narrow line around the eyes and at 
the sides, and short thick black chaetae in front projecting 
forwards and inwards over the eyes, which are large and silvery, 
palpi black scaled, traces of some paler scales apically, proboscis 
black, antennae dark brown, basal segment with grey tomentum. 
Thorax shiny black, clothed with bronzy-brown narrow 
curved scales, except for a sipall area in front which has pale 
creamy-white scales and a small white scaled area on each side in 
