Genus Taeniorhynchus. 485 



small pale narrow- curved scales, flat black, then creamy lateral 

 scales. Proboscis deep brown with a pale creamy median area 

 not extending completely around the proboscis to make a band ; 

 palpi deep brown, with black chaetae and pale scales apically ; 

 antennae pale brown ; clypeus deep brown. 



Thorax deep brown, with narrow-curved golden scales, 

 showing traces of ornamentation and becoming paler in front of 

 the scutellum and over the roots of the wings ; chaetae blackish ; 

 scutellum pale brown with narrow-curved pale scales ; metanotum 

 brown ; pleurae brown with dense flat white scales. 



Abdomen brown with median pale creamy scaled areas, on 

 some segments divided into two pale spots, and extending the 

 whole length of the segments, with lateral white lines of scales 

 extending all down the segments ; border-bristles brown ; venter 

 pale scaled. 



Legs brown with the femora yellowish at the base, a white 

 apex and a white ring towards the apex ; tibiae deep brown 

 with white spots, first three fore and mid tarsal segments with 

 narrow basal white bands ; in the hind legs all the tarsals have 

 narrow basal white bands ; fore and mid ungues equal, simple, 

 rather large ; hind equal, simple and small. 



Wings mottled with creamv and brown scales, the scales 



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Fig. 220. 

 Wing of Taeniorhynchus walsinghamii. 9. n. sp. 



somewhat denser at the base of the third vein ; first sub-marginal 

 cell slisrhtlv longer and much narrower than the second posterior 

 cell, its stem very nearly half as long as the cell, its base nearer 

 the apex of the wing; stem of the second posterior, which 

 is broad and long, about half the length of the cell ; posterior 

 cross-vein rather more than twice its own length distant from 

 the mid. 



Length. — 4*5 mm. 



Habitat. —Runaway Bay, Jamaica (Lord Walsingham). 



