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basally white banded throughout, the bands widened laterally so 
as to form heavy white basal lateral spots. 
Legs : coxae and trochanters light, and ventral side of all 
the femorae light, but the rest of the legs are very dark 
brown (almost black), except the femorae of the hind legs, which 
are white dorsally, as well as ventrally, two-thirds of the 
distance from the trochanters to the tibiae; the tarsal joints, 
including the metatarsus of the hind legs, are a slightly lighter 
brown, and show iridescence. Ungues simple and equal. 
All the flat brown scales, on whatever part of the body, show 
bronze iridescence ; but the curved and forked ones seem to lack 
it. This, of course, does not apply to wing scales. 
The wings show the typical Stegomyia scales, brown; the 
first sub-marginal cell is slightly narrower and longer than the 
second posterior, the bases being nearly on a line; the mid and 
Supernumerary cross-veins meet, the latter a little shorter than 
the mid vein, and the posterior distant from the mid vein about 
twice the latter’s length. | 
Length.—5:6 mm. (including proboscis). 
Habitat.—Oras, Samar, Philippine Islands. 
Time of capiure.—May to July. (Miss Ludlow.) 
Note-—A specimen of this very distinct species has been 
presented to the Museum by the describer.—F. V. T. 
STEGOMYIA ALBOCEPHALA. 0. Sp. 
Head covered with flat dull white scales, a small dusky 
patch on each side, and a posterior semicircular area of dark 
upright forked scales. Thorax deep brown, covered with 
scattered golden scales, showing more or less two dark eye-like 
spots ; scutellum with small flat white scales. Abdomen black, 
with narrow basal white bands. Legs black; the hind tibiae 
with a marked apical white band. 
6. Head brown, covered with dull white flat scales, with 
a silvery sheen, and small patch of black scales on the border 
about the middle of the eyes, and dull black scales at the sides, 
posteriorly are black upright forked scales, giving the head a 
dark appearance of semicircular form, in front the upright 
forked scales are yellow. Proboscis, palpi, and antennae deep 
blackish-brown ; palpi with a trace of a pale band on its basal 
half, two apical joints nearly equal, with black hair-tufts and 
also black hairs at the apex of the antepenultimate joint... 
