7S THE MOSQUITOES oF EGVrT, I'llE SUDAN AND AI5YSSINIA 



Tceniorkynclius criatatits, u. sp. 



Thorax shiny bhick, witli golden hair-Uke curved scales. Abdomen orange. 

 Legs black and orange, with tufts of black scales especially on the middle of the 

 hind til)ite. 



Fcinalc. Head brown, with pale yellow narrinv-curved scales, and long, l)lack, 

 biiid, u])right, foi-ked -scales over the occiput, and a tuft of stout bi'own bristles 

 projecting forwards; autennie l)nnvn, the four basal segments reddish. Proboscis 

 and pal])i yellowish, with black apices. 



Thorax black with narrow hair-like curved golden scales, pleurie -with a few 

 \vhite patches ; on the mesonotum lateral rows of long stout black bristles ; 

 scutellum black, with hair-like golden scales and black border-bristles. 



Abdomen entirely orange with orange-yellow scales, above and below. 

 Legs yellow, with black tufts, \-ery inconspicuous on the forelegs, more like 

 banding at the femoro -tibial and tibio-metatarsal joints; the second pair the 

 same, but more marked, femur spotted with black, the last segment of tarsus 

 black ; the liiud legs similar to the mid, but with bright purple to black tufts in 

 the middle of the tibia?, consisting both of scales and bristles ; apical half of the 

 metatarsus black ; nearly two-thirds of the apical half of the first tarsal and the 

 second tai-sal black, last tarsal black with yelloAV basal baud at the joint ; ungues 

 of fore and mid legs long, equal and simple, of the hind small, equal, and 

 simple. 



Wings with yellow costa and veins, and yellow and dark scales, the yellow 

 scales more rounded at the apex than the dark ones, some slightly expanded ; 

 most of the dusky scales are acutely truncated. First sub-marginal cell \qvj 

 long, longer than the second posterior cell; fringe dark. Halteres pale yellow, 

 with pale knobs. 



Length. 6 mm. 



Hahitiit. Pib(jr. 



Ob.ser vat ions. — A single specimen only taken. The description is mainly 

 that sent me by Dr. Balfour; the type was much damaged in transit, but I 

 ha\e added a, few notes to those he has sent me. It is certainly a new species, 

 easily identified by the tuft of purple-black scales and bristles on the hind legs. 



Teeniorhynchufi tenax, Theobald 

 Mono. Culicid. II., 198 (1901), and III., 258 (19o8) 



Mule. Thorax as in the female ; palpi black with five ycUoAvish bands, one 

 apical, the two apical segments of nearly equal length, with black hairs on lioth 

 sides, the antipenultimate segment Avith black hairs on the outside, the fifth 

 (basal band) is small ; antennae banded black and white with blackish hairs. 

 Abdomen with basal pale bands Avhich spread out laterally on the basal segments. 

 Wings with the fork-cells and their stems short ; the first submarginal cell longer 

 and narrower than the second posterior, its stem about half the length of the 

 cell, stem of the second posterior less than half the length of the cell. Legs as 



