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3. Stegomyia scutellaris. Walker (1859). 
C scutellaris. Walker. 
C. albopictus. Skuse. 
C. variegatus. Doleschall. 
(Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. iii. p. 77 (1859), Wlk.; Indian Museum Notes, 
iii. 5, p. 20, Skuse (= C. albopictus ); Natuurkundig. Tijdschr. v. Ned. 
Ind. xvii. p. 77, Doleschall.) 
(Fig. 53, PI. XIV.) 
Thorax black, with a median silvery stripe; abdomen with 
silvery white basal bands ; legs black, tarsi basally white banded, 
last joint of the hind legs pure white. 
9 • Head with a patch of dark scales on each side, separated 
by a broad band of silvery-white scales, which form a bright 
spot in front, and with a silvery-white border to the eyes, and 
another patch on each side of the head ; eyes partly black and 
golden ; antennae dark brown, faintly paler banded at the joints, 
with a tuft of silvery scales on the basal joints, forming two 
distinct spots; palpi black with a silvery white apical joint; 
proboscis black. 
Thorax black, covered with black scales, and fine, rather dull 
brown, hairs; a distinct, clear, silvery line in the middle from the 
front to about two-thirds of the way across the mesonotum; 
scutellum edged with silvery scales; metanotum dark brown ; 
pleurae black with numerous silvery-white spots. Abdomen 
covered with black scales, the bases of the segments with a band 
of silvery scales which spread out laterally, most noticeable on 
the fourth and fifth segments, forming distinct lateral patches ) 
ventral surface also with white scales. 
Legs black, the femora with silvery knee spots and pale 
beneath for part of their length ; tibiae black ; metatarsi with 
broad white basal bands; in the fore and mid feet the first 
tarsal joint is basally white, the others black ; in the hind legs 
all the tarsi with broad, white, basal bands, except the last, 
which is pure white. Front claws untoothed. Wings with the 
veins covered with long brown scales and a double row of short 
darker ones; first sub-marginal cell short, slightly longer and 
narrower than the second posterior cell; posterior cross-vein 
some distance behind the mid cross-vein. Halteres with pale 
testaceous stem and dusky knob. 
Length. —4*5 to 5 mm. 
