GENUS T^NIORHYNCHUS 365 



with mixed yellow and dark brownish scales ; short, with whitish tip in 

 the ? ; longer than the proboscis by the entire last joint in the $ ; 

 clypeus deep ferruginous yellow ; proboscis dull j-ellow, with scattered 

 black scales, which almost cover it at the apex. Orbits white. Pleura; 

 dark brown, marbled with white. Legs ochreous, with scattered ochreous, 

 white and dark scales on the femora and tibiae, the latter dark towai'ds 

 the apices ; first tarsal joints with a pale band in the middle and one at 

 the base. Halteres pale ferruginous. Length. — 7 to 10 mm. 



Habitat. — England (at Sutton); Italy; Toronto, Canada; Tel 

 Zahmul, Syria. 



In the specimen from Palestine, the pale lateral abdominal spots are 

 very mdistinct. 



9. TiENIORHYNCHUS TENAX, Theob. (Monog. II, p. 198). 



Wing veins densely clothed with black scales intermixed with 

 a few white ones on the costa, and on the long veins near the 

 base, the short rank of inner fringe scales all dark. All but the last 

 tarsal joints basally white banded. Thorax dark grounded, its 

 anterior half clothed with curved golden scales, paler across the 

 middle of the mesonotum, white on the hinder half ; the scales are 

 black, but for a pair of whitish lateral lines. Abdominal seg- 

 ments deep brown with a fringe of golden scales on their posterior 

 borders which are broad enough on the hinder segments to be 

 called bands. Proboscis black with a broad pale band just 

 beyond the middle. 



2 . — Head brown, with yellowish-brown scales in front and at the 

 sides and a patch of black scales on each side of the back of the crown, 

 eyes purple to black with a border of white scales ; antennse brown, 

 with testaceous basal joints ; palpi black, with white scales at the 

 tip, and black hairs. Pleurae yellow, with black bristles and a few white 

 scales and hairs. Legs densely covered with black scales with a few 

 yellow ones intermixed ; knees yellowish ; apices of tibiie pale, combining 

 with the first tarsal band. Length. — 6*5 to 7 mm. 



Habitat. — Straits Settlements, Perak, Freetown, Sierra Leone (bred 

 from roadside puddle). 



10. TiENIORHYNCHUS AGER, Sp. n. 



Entomologist, 1891, p. 196. = C hitaniorhynchus mihi., Journ. Bombay Nat. 

 Hist. Soc. vol. xiii, p. 607. 



Veins of the wings distinctly brindled with dark and light 

 scales, the latter being almost as numei'ous as the former on all 

 the long veins (a character found in no other allied species). 

 Tarsi deep brown with ochreous bands on the articulations. 

 Thorax unadorned, black grounded, covered with mingled black 



