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occurs commonly in India. Doleschall’s Culex variegatus is 
evidently the same as C. scutellaris; Doleschall described it from 
Amboina, where it is one of the most troublesome mosquitoes 
throughout the year, common in houses. Watson’s specimen 
from Upper Burma is very small. 
4. Stegomyia sugens. Wiedemann (1828). 
C. sugens. Wiedemann. 
C. vittatus. Bigot (1861). 
(Auss. Zweifliig. Insec. p. 545 (1828), Wied.; Ann. Soe. Ent. d. Fr. S. 4. t. 1 
(1861), Bigot (= vittatus); Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital. p. 257 (1886), Ficalbi 
(= vittatus).) 
(Fig. 51, PI. XIII.) 
Thorax dark brown, with reddish-brown scale’s and four 
silvery spots, two on each side of the mesonotum. Abdomen 
black, with basal white bands and white lateral spots, apical 
segment with a pure white central spot. Legs black, banded 
white, tarsi hasally banded white, last hind tarsal joint pure 
white. 
9 . Head black, clothed with flat fuscous scales on the 
occiput, with a median line of white rather broad curved scales, 
a silvery-white border round the eyes, a distinct patch of white 
scales on each side, with black, upright foi’ked scales dotted 
about over the back of the head; eyes slightly golden, and 
coppery; antennae brown, very narrowly banded, a small white 
patch of scales on their dark basal joint; palpi black scaled, the 
last joint densely white scaled, bristles black; clypeus dark 
brown, with two patches of white scales; proboscis dark brown, 
in some a few pale scales may be seen in the middle. 
Thorax covered with narrow, curved, deep reddish-brown 
scales, with a few scattered creamy ones, especially in the 
middle, those at the sides a slightly deeper reddish-brown; 
there are also four silvery spots, two on each side, wide apart; 
scutellum with four silvery-white spots, composed of white, 
curved scales, two central, and one on each side, with a central 
and two lateral patches of dark border-bristles; a patch of dark 
bristles also arise over the root of each wing, and project back¬ 
wards ; metathorax fuscous ; a few white patches of scales on 
the pleurae, and two groups of grey bristles ; when denuded the 
mesothorax shows longitudinal lines. 
