Genus Stegomyia. 
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Fig. 87. 
Stegomyia fasciata (9). 
(Queensland.) (X. 9.) 
cell longer and but slightly narrower than the second posterior 
cell, base of the former a little nearer the base of the wing than 
the latter ; posterior cross-vein about 
one and a half times to twice its 
length distant from the mid cross-vein. 
Halteres ochraceous, sometimes 
the knob is slightly fuscous. 
Length .—3 • 5 to 5 mm. 
£ . Darker than the 9 • 
Head black, with white scales in front and in the middle ; 
antennae brown, with paler brown bands, sometimes almost 
white, basal joint jet black with a 
large tuft of pure white scales, plumes 
brown; palpi black with four white 
basal bands; proboscis black; thorax 
marked as in the 9 > but much 
darker, and the white scales clearer 
and more silvery. 
Abdomen with the first segment 
with creamy scales, bases of the 
second to fifth segments white, fifth to 
eighth with clear white lateral spots ; these spots also occur on 
the front segments, but quite at the sides. 
Legs as in the 9 • Fore claws unequal, the larger one with a 
short blunt tooth, smaller one untoothed ; mid ungues unequal, 
untoothed ; hind equal, untoothed. 
Length .—3 to 4 * 5 mm. 
S. fasciata (= deg am) (after 
Ficalbi). 
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Fig. 89. 
Stegomyia fascia ta, Fabr. 
Male ungues. 
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