GENUS T^NIORHYNCHUS 359 



" Palpi long in the $ , short in the ? ; the fifth joint in the ? minute, 

 hidden among the scales of the next joint ; ^ palpi longer than the 

 proboscis, thu-d joint long ; head clothed with narrow curved scales 

 and upright forked ones ; thorax and scutellum with narrow curved 

 scales; abdomen with flat scales; wings clothed with, elongated oval 

 scales, ending either diagonally and convexlg, or more or less hluntly 

 pointed, no median linear scales to the veins ; legs s^ootted and banded ; 

 ungues of female equal and simple, of the male unequal in the fore and 

 mid legs, the larger one with one or two teeth, the smaller simple, 

 the hind claws also simple ; wings with similar venation to Culex.'' 



Table of the Species of the Genus TiENIORHYNCHUS. 

 Yellow and Oeange Species. 



A. Legs banded. 



a. Ungues serrated in <y and 5 . 



Thorax yellow, with four pvirple 

 marks on each side ; abdomen 

 yellow, with metallic purple apical 

 bands to second to fifth segments ; 

 ungues of J equal and serrated; of 

 $ unequal, uniserrated 1 conopas(Frauenfeld). 



aa. Ungues simple in ? . 



Thorax brown with creamy-yellow 

 scales, a brown patch on]each side 

 in front ; abdomen dark with yel- 

 low basal bands 2 Annettii, n. sp. 



Thorax clear yellowish-brown in 

 front, with narrow yellow curved 

 scales in mid line darker behind ; 

 abdomen ochreous yellow ; J 

 tarsi pale brown with broad yel- 

 low apical bands 3 fwlvus (Wiedemaim). 



flavicosta, Walker. 



Thorax golden - yellow, abdomen 



golden-yellow ; hind tarsi dark ... 4 aurites, Theob. 



AA. Legs unhanded. 



Thorax golden-yellow, metallic in 



front ; abdomen orange-yellow, 



first four segments apically purple 5 acer (Walker). 

 Thorax bright ochreous with two 



deep purplish patches behind ; 



fork- cells short ; abdomen purple 



with ochreous tarsal bands 6 hrevicellida, ThQoh. 



