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vein joins the costal just before the base of the first sub-marginal 
cell. Hal teres with a pale ochraceous stem and fuscous knob, 
with a few grey scales. 
Length .—4 • S mm. 
Time of capture .—May. 
Habitat .—Naini Tal, India (7000 feet; Giles). Colonel Giles 
says Lower Himalayas (6000-8000 feet), Bakloh, Punjab, as 
well as Naini Tal. 
Observations. —Described from a single 9 sent over by 
Colonel Giles. It bears a very strong resemblance to Stegomyia 
notoscrijrta, Skuse, but is certainly distinct, and can at once be 
told by the unbanded proboscis. The tarsal banding which 
Colonel Giles points out as a distinguishing character will not 
hold good, as I have seen the Australian species with the white 
scales passing on to the apices of the joints. There are also 
structural differences of considerable importance from S. noto- 
scripta, especially in connection with the wing scales. A 
noticeable character in this species is the long patch of white 
scales at the base of the costa. 
I have not seen a f , but Giles gives its length as 3 * 1 mm. 
The species is not common ; it occasionally enters houses and 
bites. “ I have met with the larvae,” says Colonel Giles, “ in 
very shallow depressions in the cemented tanks round a house, 
in the bottom of which was only a little sand, just tinted with 
green algae, in perfectly clean rain-water. 
“ The larvae (Fig. 16, III.) are 8 mm. long and very dark 
tinted, the head being so black that the eyes cannot be dis¬ 
tinguished. The antennae are very short, and, with the exception 
of some terminal specialised short bristles, are also naked, and not, 
as usual, indistinctly two-jointed, with tufts at the constriction. 
The spiracle is extremely short, not half as long as the anal 
tubercles, and no longer than an average abdominal segment. 
With the exception of the large thoracic tufts, the bristles are 
not distinguishably compound. In the water they hold them¬ 
selves nearly vertical to the surface. 
“The pupae are also intensely black.” 
12. Stegomyia gubernatoris. Giles. 
(The Entomologist, p. 194, July, 1901.) 
Thorax sooty, with a round anterior median and four lateral 
snowy spots at the corners of the mesonotum. Abdomen black, 
