Genus Stegomyia . 
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r 7 
Fig. 91. 
Stegomyia scutellaris, Walker. 
Male ungues. 
£. Thorax, abdomen, and legs like the 9 • Antennae 
banded black and white, the basal joint black with a large patch 
of silverj-white scales on the inside ; plumes deep brown; palpi 
long and thin, not plumed, black, 
with two broad white bands to¬ 
wards the base and a white spot 
underneath at the base of the last 
two joints; proboscis black ; fore 
and mid gngues unequal, the larger 
with one large tooth, the smaller 
simple; hind ones small and simple, 
equal. 
Length. —4 to 4 • 5 mm. 
Habitat. —Singapore (Rafflesian 
Museum) (4. 9. 1899) ; Hong 
Kong (Ford) (27. 9. 1899) ; Se¬ 
langor (A. L. Butler) (28. 10. 
1899); Upper Burma (Watson); 
North Borneo ; Mauritius (Sir 
Charles Bruce) (22. 11. 1899); 
Tamsui, Formosa (Mackay) (2. 8. 1899) ; Fiji (Black) (30. 12. 
1899); Japan (Wood); Celebes (Walker); Ceylon (Bartholo¬ 
mew) (12. 12. 1899) ; Madras and Naini Tal, India (Giles and 
Cornwall) ; Siam (Skeate) ; Amboina (Doleschall) ; Sombalpur, 
C. P., India (D. O’C. Murphy) (99) ; Foo-Chow, China (Rennie) 
(9. 8. 1900) (84). 
Time of capture. —Singapore, July (July 27, 1899) ; Ceylon, 
November ; Upper Burma (March). 
Observations. —This is a very common mosquito, with a wide 
distribution in Asia. It is a common species in the Straits 
Settlements, being the second commonest mosquito in Selangor 
(A. L. Butler). Ford records its larvae as being abundant “in 
standing water near houses 500 fe.et above the sea.” It is a 
great nuisance at Calcutta (Skuse). Skeate also evidently took 
it in abundance in Siam, for numbers are in the collection sent 
me by Dr. Sharpe. 
It is a very marked species, with a clear silvery mid dorsal 
line. Walker’s type of C. scutellaris is in the British Museum 
in good condition. 
Synonymy. —-Skuse’s C. albopictus, described in the Indian 
Museum Notes, iii. 5, p. 20, is certainly this species, every 
character agreeing with Walker’s type of C. scutellaris , which 
