Genus Stegomyia. 175 
ront of the roots of the wings passing up on to the mesonotum 
some short distance, and a small patch of pale scales in front 
of the bare space before the scutellum; chaetae black to dark 
brown; scutellum testaceous with flat dusky scales and rich 
brown border-bristles, pleurae rich brown with silvery-white 
puncta. 
Abdomen deep brown, unbanded with basal lateral white 
spots and rather long dusky border-bristles; venter black with 
basal white bands, the scales -long and outstanding giving a 
ragged appearance. 
Legs brown and banded; fore and mid legs with the femora 
pale at the base and below, the tibiae with a creamy area before 
the apex which is black, this is most marked in the fore pair; 
the rest of fore legs unbanded, but in the mid the metatarsus has 
a pale basal band; femora of the hind legs pale creamy with a 
broad dark band on the apical half, base and apex of the 
metatarsus with a pale band, also the base of the first tarsal, 
remainder dark, fore and mid ungues equal and uniserrate; the 
hind equal and simple. 
Wings with brown scales, the lateral ones dense and rather 
flattened; fork-cells short, the first a little longer and narrower 
than the second, its base very slightly nearer the base of the 
wing than that of the second posterior; its stem not quite as 
long as the cell; stem of the second posterior as long as the cell; 
supernumerary and mid cross-veins in a straight line, posterior 
cross-vein about two and a half times its own length distant from 
the mid. 
Length. —3 to 4 • 5 mm. 
Habitat. —Sylhet, Assam (Major Hall); Pallode, 20 miles 
N.E. of Trivandrum, Travancore (N. Annandale). 
Time of capture. — 13. iv. 05 ; 15. xi. 08. 
Observations. —Described from a single 9 • The adornment 
of the thorax and legs will at once separate it from others of 
this genus. 
It presents certain aberrations which however are not sufficient 
to separate it on one-sex characters alone from Stegomyia. 
These characters are the long raggedly arranged ventral scales, 
the somewhat longer palpi and the somewhat broader wing 
scales, these differences are however more of size than of 
structure. 
Type in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 
