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the neighbourhood. The legs are broadly basally banded white, and the femora and tibiae more 
or less mottled ; the general colour is rich brown, the abdomen being deeper brown, with apical 
white patches of lateral scales, and similar ochraceous basal ones. Some specimens show apical 
ochraceous bands ; the scales are not evenly disposed and give the abdomen a slight ragged appear- 
ance. The thorax shows characteristic ornamentation under the microscope, the greater surface 
being covered with golden-brown scales, with lines and patches of silvery-grey scales. The 
specimens collected at Asaba differ in no respects from those in the other parts of West and 
Central Africa. 
Genus Taeniorhynchus Arribalzaga ( 1 89 1 ) (Modified F.V.T.) 
(Dipt. Argentina, p. 47, and Mono. Culicidae, Vol. II) 
Separated from Culex by Arribalzaga chiefly on account of the palpal structure and ungues 
and banded rostrum. His genus, however, contains three totally diverse species. I have, there- 
fore, remodelled it upon his T. fasciolatus (Vide Mono. Culicidae). 
The only feature I need point out here is that the wings are always covered along the 
veins with thick elongated scales, giving the wings a densely scaled appearance, but quite different 
to Panoplites in form. I know nothing of the life-history or any of the species in this genus. 
XX. Taeniorhynchus aurites. Theobald 
{Mono. Culicidae, Vol. II) 
Eight or nine 9 ' s °f this pretty golden-yellow gnat were taken at Bonny and Ogugumanga. 
One bears on the label ' Taken in the bush opposite St. Stephen's Cathedral.'' The}- were captured 
in May, June, and July. It can be told from the other yellow African mosquito bv the 
thorax being honey-yellow and unadorned ; the hind legs have apical dark bands to the metatarsi 
and tarsi, and the wings brilliant orange-yellow. 
XXI. Taeniorhynchus annettii. Theobald 
(Mono. Culicidae, Vol. II) 
A £ and eight 9 's taken at Old Calabar at the Vice-Consulate in April, and at Bonny. 
It resembles T. aurites but the sixth vein is dark scaled ; there is darker thoracic ornamenta- 
tion and apical dark banding to the fore and mid legs, more or less distinct ; the abdomen has 
apical deep-violet bands. 
Genus Aedes. Meigen (18 18) 
(Syst. Beschr. Vol. I, p. 13, 18 18) 
Palpi short in both $ and 9 • Head clothed with both flat and narrow-curved scales, 
the flat scales predominating ; scutellum with narrow-curved scales only. Fork-cells of the wings 
moderately long ; scales on the wings very similar to Culex, there being always long, thin, lateral 
scales to the veins, which are not seen in other genera of the Aedeomyina. 
Two species occur in the genus in Africa. 
