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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
Habitat .—Sokotra (Grant). 
Time of capture. —December. 
Observations .—Described from a single 9 specimen brought 
back by Mr. Grant from Sokotra, where, he tells me, it is very 
troublesome. It resembles in a most striking manner C. spathi- 
palpis, Rond., the thoracic markings and head being similarly 
marked ; but the peculiar abdominal banding, the perfect white 
lines on the black legs, the posterior cross-vein being close to 
the mid cross-vein and smaller, and the entire absence of wing 
spots, separate it at sight; moreover, owing to the head and 
scutellar scales being flat, it is clearly separated from spaihipaipis , 
and comes in this genus, and yet its superficial appearance is 
very similar. 
9. Stegomyia sexlineata. n. sp. 
Thorax deep brownish-black, with two median parallel yellow 
scaled lines and two pairs of lateral pale creamy curved lines 
on the front of the mesonotum. Abdomen deep brown, with 
narrow pale creamy basal bands 
and pure white lateral spots, the 
last two segments with pure 
silvery-white basal bands. Legs 
deep brown; metatarsi and 
some of the tarsi with basal 
white bands; knee spot and 
also a spot on the femora pure 
white ; ungues of 9 equal and 
^ simple. 
9 . Head deep brown, 
£ covered with flat black scales, 
with a median and lateral lines 
of creamy scales and with dull 
g white scales at the sides; the 
scales of the median creamv 
V 
line are of rather different form 
to those of the rest of the head, 
numerous black bristles pro¬ 
jecting forwards and inwards 
and a few at the sides; projecting forwards in the middle line 
between the eyes are a few yellowish bristles ; on the back of 
the head are a few small black upright forked scales. Antennae 
Fig. 94. 
Stegomyia sexlineata. n. sp. ( 9 ). 
a, Head and thorax; b, abdomen ; c, side 
view of abdomen ; d, border-bristles of 
abdomen; e, ungues of ? ; f, border 
scales ; g, wing scales. 
