Genus Stegomyia. 321 
Thorax deep reddish-brown, rather shiny, with scattered 
curved bronzy scales and a few rather broader white ones over 
the roots of the wings ; scutellum with flat creamy-white scales ; 
metathorax deep brown; pleurae brown, with numerous scattered 
flat white scales. 
Abdomen brown, the apical borders of the segments with 
broad yellow bands; apical segment black ; venter pure white, 
b 
Fig. 103. 
Stegomyia crassipes, Vail d. Wulp. 
a, Side view of abdomen ; b, clypeus and 
scales. 
with four lateral triangular black spots and traces of a fifth, the 
broad end of the black spot being apical; posterior borders of 
the segments with very small pale hairs. 
Legs with the coxae yellowish, with two rows of white scales; 
femora grey beneath, brown above, knee spot yellowish, not very 
marked; tibiae, metatarsi and tarsi dark brown; ungues of the 
fore and mid legs equal and uniserrated. 
Wings with a yellowish tint: veins with yellowish-brown 
scales, which are rather larger on the first, second and fourth 
longitudinal veins; first sub-marginal a little longer and narrower 
than the second posterior cell, its base nearer thb apex of the 
wing than that of the latter; its stem nearly as long as the cell, 
stem of the second posterior cell as long as the cell; posterior 
cross-vein shorter than the mid cross-vein, a little more than its 
own length distant from the latter; fringe yellowish-brown, 
rather darker towards the base; halteres ochraceous. 
Length. —4*8 mm. (Van der Wulp gives 4 mm. 9 •) 
Habitat. —Thayetmyo, Upper Burma (Watson) (94. 4); Boeroe- 
langoen (Van der Wulp). 
Time of capture .—August (Burma). 
Observations .—A single 9 > sent by Mr. Watson from Burma, 
is undoubtedly Van der Wlp’s Culex crassipes , although there 
are certain differences, which probably are due to the denuded 
state in Van der Wulp’s specimen. The essential features of the 
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