Genus Stegomyia. 3 1 7 
between the eyes; over the occiput are also a few black upright 
forked scales; palpi ochraceous, with black scales; clypeus black ; 
proboscis deep bronzy-brown, black towards the apex, minutely 
hairy; antennae brown, basal joint dark brown inside, deep 
testaceous outside, base of the second joint pale testaceous, a few 
black scales on the second joint; hairs and pubescence deep brown. 
Thorax black, with small bright umber-brown curved hair¬ 
like scales, with four spots on the front half of the raesonotum 
of flat silvery scales, and two lateral pairs, also flat white scales 
on the prothoracic lobes; there are also a few flat white scales on 
each side of the bare space in front of the scutellum; three rows 
of black bristles on the mesonotum, and a small number over the 
roots of the wings; scutellum brown, with a thick median and 
lateral tufts of flat silvery-white scales and black border-bristles ; 
metanotum deep chestnut-brown; pleurae paler brown, with five 
round white puncta in two rows, three in the upper and two in 
the lower, composed of flat white scales. 
Abdomen deep brown, with small basal lateral white spots, 
and with golden-brown border-bristles; venter dark brown. 
Legs dark brown to black, bases pale, coxae of the first and 
second pairs with a patch of white scales, apex of the femora and 
tibiae with a ring of silvery-white scales, also a white bar near 
the apex of the femora ; metatarsi and tarsi unbanded ; ungues of 
the fore and mid legs equal, uniserrated, of the hind legs simple. 
Wings with brown scales; the first sub-marginal cell longer, 
but little narrower than the second posterior cell, its base slightly 
nearer the base of the wing than that of the second posterior 
cell; its stem equal to nearly half the length of the cell, a little 
shorter than the stem of the latter ; second posterior cell a little 
Fig. 98. 
Stegomyia argenteopunctata. n. sp. (9). 
(X. 90 
longer than its stem; mid cross-vein in front of the super¬ 
numerary cross-vein; posterior cross-vein about the same length 
as the mid, distant from the latter about its own length ; fringe 
brown, costal border very dark brown, almost black; halteres 
with a dusky yellowish-brown stem and fuscous knob. 
Length .—4 to 4*2 mm. 
