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white ones, broadening towards the base ; there is also a napal 
patch of loose flat dusky-white scales and below them a few 
narrow-curved and very short upright forked ones; clypeus 
black. Palpi shining bronzy-black. Proboscis with bronzy 
brown and ochreous scales, basal half with a median, interrupted 
line of white scales. Antennae with the basal segment greyish- 
black, second segment pale brown, remaining segments darker ; 
hairs dark brown or black, pubescence white. Thorax : pro- 
thoracic lobes clothed with pure white scales ; mesothoracic scales 
Fig. 66. 
Stegomyia albomarginata. ?. N ewstead. 
Head (after Newstead). 
in front narrow-curved, white ; dorsally the whole area is sparsely 
clothed with narrow-curved dark-brown scales intermixed at the 
sides and posteriorly with a few greyish ones ; scutellar scales 
dull white, with a few shorter black ones at the base of the mid 
lobe, and also at the base of the marginal hairs to the lateral 
lobes. 
Abdomen with the first four segments brownish-black ; a few 
dull white scales on the base of the fourth indicating the presence 
of a more or less imperfect basal band; venter uniformly white 
as far as the end of the fourty segment; the remaining segments 
wanting. 
