Genus Stegomyia. 183 
side of somewhat less shiny hue, chaetae black, two projecting 
forwards between the eyes, two curving downwards over the 
basal segments of the antennae, eyes coppery and golden, clypeus 
brown, shiny ; proboscis thin and black ; palpi short, black scaled 
and with black chaetae; antennae dark brown, verticillate areas 
pale, base of second segment testaceous, basal segment black 
shiny with some small curved black chaetae. 
Thorax shiny black, with rather large narrow-curved bronzy 
scales and some paler areas here and there, pro thoracic lobes 
Fig. 68. 
Wing of Stegomyia tripunctata . $. Theobald. 
covered with flat silvery-white scales, scutellum testaceous with 
flat black scales, metanotum black, pleurae black with silvery- 
white flat scales forming a long patch and two spots. 
Abdomen narrow, black scaled with basal white lateral 
patches, which meet on the fifth and sixth segments to form basal 
white bands, border-bristles small and pale. 
Legs deep brown with bronzy reflections, venter of femora 
and coxae pale, ungues small, equal and simple. 
Wings with dense brown scales almost TaeniorhyncJms-like in 
form, first sub-marginal cell much longer, but scarcely narrower, 
than the second posterior cell, its base much nearer the base of 
the wing than that of the second posterior, its stem not quite a 
fourth the length of the cell, stem of the second posterior about 
two-thirds the length of the cell, posterior cross-vein slightly 
more than its own length distant from the mid. 
Length .—3 mm. 
Habitat .—Lushai Hills, Assam (E. C. Macleod). 
Time of capture. —6. vi. 04. 
Observations. —Described from two females. It comes very 
near Stegomyia amesii, Ludlow, but can at once be told by having 
a large white spot in the middle of the front of the head. One 
specimen shows some pallid scales on the mid lobe of the 
scutellum and the white lateral spots do not form bands at all. 
