50 
It oviposits in confinement, the eggs being laid in a raft ; 
I succeeded in hatching out a number, but for some mysterious 
reason the larvae died. The male of this species has not been 
seen. 
TiENIORHYNCHUS — Arribalzaga (1899) 
Palpi long in the <?, short in the $ ; the fifth joint in the $ 
minute, buried in scales ; *j<J palpi longer than the proboscis, 
third 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 thick 
elongated scales, ending either diagonally and convexly, or 
more or less bluntly pointed, median linear scales to the veins 
often absent ; legs usually spotted or 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 ; 
the proboscis is usually banded. 
Tjeniorhynchus acer. — Walker. 
Head brown, with testaceous scales, a pale border round 
the eyes above, with some black and yellowish bristles ; eyes 
black ; basal joint of the antennae yellowish, remainder brown ; 
palpi dark yellowish-brown ; proboscis covered with dark black 
scales with a very dark purplish reflection. Thorax golden- 
yellow, the front scales being very bright and metallic ; scutellum 
bordered with long yellow bristles ; metanotum testaceous, 
pleurae pale testaceous, with some bright reflections and a dark 
area beneath the root of the wings. There are traces of brown 
markings on the thorax, which cannot be made out. The 
abdomen brilliant orange-yellow, the first four segments apically 
banded with metallic purple, the other segments showing traces 
of the metallic banding (probably rubbed), clothed with orange- 
yellow hairs, densely so at the apex, venter similarly marked 
to the dorsum. Wings testaceous at the base, veins densely 
clothed with longish brown scales, costa and first longitudinal 
very dark brown scaled ; base of the second posterior cell nearer 
the base of the wing than the base of first sub-marginal cell. 
Hal teres testaceous with dusky knob. Legs with coxae orange- 
yellow, femora orange-yellow at the base, apically metallic 
black, rest of legs clothed with metallic black scales showing- 
purplish and slight golden reflections — general appearance of 
legs dark metallic black. 
Length, 5 mm. 
$ . Head with pale greyish scales, a dark line running down 
the middle ; palpi as long as the proboscis, dark brown at the 
tip, paler basally, with a small pale band about one-third of the 
length from the base ; proboscis dark brown, slightly paler 
