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Thorax deep umber brown, with two 
small spots on the mesono+um, and 
traces of two median parallel pale 
lines. minuta. n. sp. 
(bb) Abdomen with apical pale bands. 
Thorax unadorned, except for pale 
scales over the roots of the wings crcissipes. Van der 
Wulp. 
1. Stegomyia notoscripta. Skuse (1889). 
Calex notoscrvptus. Skuse. 
(Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, iii. p. 1738 (1889).) 
(Fig. 52, PI. XIII.) 
Thorax umber-brown or black, with a median ^silvery line, 
two lateral curved lines and two short yellow lateral ones 
between them and the median line in front ; abdomen black, 
with basal white lateral patches, and more or less distinct basal 
white bands ; legs black, some of the tarsi with basal white 
bands, last joint of hind legs pure white, wings with brown 
scales. 
9 . Head black, with black scales, some upright forked ones, 
a patch of yellowish-white scales in the middle behind and a 
silvery-white border to the eyes ; bristles black ; antennae black, 
with pale pubescence and black verticillate hairs ; palpi black 
scaled, with the apex pure silvery-white; proboscis black, with a 
pure silvery-white band in the middle, slightly testaceous at the 
base; mesothorax deep umber-brown to almost black, with 
numerous bronzy-black flat spindle-shaped scales (under a hand 
lens it looks velvety umber-brown) ; there is a narrow median 
silvery-white line which expands round the bare patch in front 
of the scutellum, a long curved one on each side, a short one on 
each side of the median line in front, and another short one on 
the outside of each of the curved lines behind; scutellum 
brown, with a basal band of pure silvery-white, composed of a 
single row of flat broad scales, a few also on the mid lobe; 
bristles black, there being five in the middle lobe ; pleurae paler 
brown than the rest, with six large and several smaller patches 
of white scales; metanotum pale brown; mesonotum beset with 
numerous long black bristles. 
Abdomen covered with black scales with purplish reflections, 
each segment with a basal lateral patch of silvery-white scales, 
