( 166 ) 
recognised. I know nothing as to its habits except that it is to be found 
in houses. Dr. Milne tells me he has taken one feeding on himself. Il 
frequents low herbage in the neighbourhood of houses and swamps durino 
the day. 
Taeniorhyncus Conopas. — Frauenfeld. 
Thorax light brown with two broad deep blackish-brown lines on the 
anterior half and on either side behind a large round and a larger oval spot 
deep brown in colour. Proboscis golden-brown. Legs golden-brown with 
bands of deep blackish-brown. Abdomen purple with golden-brown bands. 
Female Head .—Ferruginous with long hair-like curved bright golden 
scales on the upper part and low down on the side a patch of small spatu- 
late golden scales; golden-brown upright scales are inserted all over the 
upper part as far forwards as the vertex. Basal joint of antenna golden- 
brown with a few dark brown scales on its inner face, remaining joints lost. 
Clypeus golden-brown. Palpi clad with golden-brown scales mottled with 
a few scattered black ones. Proboscis golden-brown with golden-brown 
scales and a few black scales on the under side of the base and a ring of the 
same at the apex. 
Thorax .—Prothoracic lobes golden-brown. Mesonotum brown with 
two broad blackish-brown lines one on either side of the middle on the 
anterior half; on either side of the posterior half close to the margin are 
two large blackish-brown spots the front one round the hinder one oval. 
The whole mesonotum is clad with deep golden-yellow narrow-curved 
scales, arranged in lines, and lines of dark brown bristles. Scutellum 
golden in the middle blackish-brown laterally, without scales. Bristles 
golden-brown four to the central lobe arranged in pairs with a space 
between. Pleurae golden-brown with two horizontal lines of three spots 
each blackish-brown in colour, and with lines of golden bristles and 
patches of long clavate golden scales. Wings golden-brown with golden- 
brown scales on the costa and first vein, dull brown scales on the other 
veins; these scales are long broad scales with obliquely truncated ends; 
fork cells of nearly equal length and breadth the base of the first a little 
nearer the apex of the wing than the base of the second the stem of the 
first less than half the length of the cell; posterior cross-vien about one- 
and-half times its own length from the median. Coxae golden-brown 
each with dark-brown spot. Femora clad with golden-brown scales a few 
scattered black ones and a ring of black scales at the apex of each; fore 
and mid tibiae mottled with golden-brown and purple scales the purple 
predominating ; hind tibiae with a ring of purple-black scales at base 
and apex golden-brown scales between; fore and mid metatarsi and tarsal 
joints with golden-brown scaling except for a ring of purple-black scales at 
the apex of each. Metatarsus of hind leg golden-brown scaled on the basal 
three-quarter, black scaled on the apical quarter; tarsal joints golden- 
brown on their basal half, purple-black on the apical half. 
Abdomen .—Each segment golden-brown at the base and sides, purple! 
at the apex. The purple scaling is deeper in the middle than the sides and 
thus forms a band of triangular shape the apex of which is directed for¬ 
wards. Venter invisible owing to retraction. Male uncommon. 
Occurrence .—Described from one female taken in Klang jungle. 
