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Genus Stegomyia. 
root of the wings, and numerous short thick black bristles; 
scutellum brown, the lateral lobes with small black scales, the 
median lobe with white scales at the base, black ones apically 
Fig. 96. 
Stegomyia pseudotaeniata, Giles, 
a, Thorax ; b, wing scales ; c, head of $. 
(these scales are more of a flat spindle shape than normally in 
this genus) ; border-bristles of the mid lobe irregular in arrange¬ 
ment and size, nine in number; metanotum deep brown; pleurae 
deep brown and black, with long patches of white scales. 
Abdomen steely-black, with deep black scales and narrow 
basal bands of white scales; first segment brown, with black 
scales; posterior border-bristles long, pale golden-brown. 
Legs with the coxae dark brown; femora black, with a white 
ventral line and white knee spot; tibiae black, with a white apex 
and white line beneath ; fore metatarsus and base of the first 
tarsal joint white, remainder of fore tarsi black ; in the mid 
legs the base and apex of the first tarsal are white, and the base 
of the second, the remainder black ; in the hind legs the banding 
is more distinct; hind metatarsi about two-thirds the length of 
the posterior tibiae; fore and mid ungues equal, apparently 
minutely uniserrated. 
Wings rather long, with brown scaled veins, the costa having 
a long basal patch of ivhite scales ; scales of the veins rather dense, 
the median ones rather long, the lateral ones long and rounded 
at the apex, rather thicker than in Culex; first sub-marginal 
cell longer and narrower than the second posterior cell, its base 
a little nearer the base of the wing than that of the second 
posterior cell, its stem rather more than half the length of the 
cell; stem of the second posterior cell equal to two-thirds the 
length of the cell; posterior cross-vein about one and a half 
times its own length distant from the mid cross-vein; sub-costal 
