Genus Stegomyia. 
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14. Stegomyia minuta. n. sp. 
Thorax dark brown, with umber-brown narrow curved scales 
and two small white spots on the mesonotum, and traces of two 
minute narrow, pale, parallel median lines. Abdomen unbanded, 
dark brown, with basal white lateral spots. Legs brown, tarsi 
unbanded, apex of femora with a pale spot, a white band at 
the apex of the tibiae, especially the hind pair; ungues of the 
9 equal and simple. 
9 . Head dark brown, clothed with flat dark brown scales, 
with a patch on each side converging to the nape, and another 
lateral patch lower down, upright black forked scales in the middle, 
and long black bristles projecting forwards over the eyes ; the flat 
median scales show a brighter brown tint in some lights ; palpi and 
proboscis black, the former densely scaled ; antennae dark brown, 
basal joint deep ferruginous, base of the second joint ferruginous. 
Thorax deep brown, covered closely with small hair-like 
curved scales of a rich brown tint, ornamented with two spots 
of white scales before the middle of the 
mesonotum, and two more or less regular 
lines of scattered white scales in the 
middle, a few white ones in front, and 
one or two scattered over the surface; 
scutellum with flat white scales ; meta- 
notum chestnut-brown; pleurae dark brown, 
with patches of white scales. 
Abdomen covered with dusky black 
scales, unbanded, but each segment with small basal lateral 
white spots, and with rather long golden border-bristles. 
Legs brown, the mid and hind femora with distinct white 
apices, absent in the fore legs, tibiae also with a white apical band, 
most prominent in the hind legs ; ungues small, equal, and simple. 
Wings with brown scales ; fork-cells rather short ; first 
sub-marginal cell a little longer, but no 
narrower than the second posterior cell, 
not quite twice the length of its stem ; 
Fig. 102. its base nearly level with that of the 
stegomyia minuta^ n. sp. (9). se cond posterior cell, if anything, a 
little nearer apex of wing; stem of the 
second posterior cell nearly as long as the cell; middle and 
supernumerary cross-veins meet at an angle; posterior cross-vein 
Thorax of S. minuta. n. sp. 
