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Occurrence .—Described from 
Kuala Lumpur. 
one female taken in my bungalow at 
Remarks. In most respects this specimen resembles T. Tenax but there 
are variations. 
Taeniorhyncus Ager.— Giles. 
Hea 5i dee P P ur ple with creamy narrow-curved and upright forked 
scales. Thorax almost black with creamy and coppery narrow scales in 
Iront and black scales behind. Abdomen broadly banded with dingy 
creamy scales with a greenish tinge. Wings much mottled with dark 
brown and golden-brown broad scales many with obliquely truncated ends 
Legs banded. 
Female Head. Deep purple, clad on upper surface with scattered 
creamy narrow-curved scales, at the sides with creamy spatulate scales; all 
over the upper surface there are rows of upright scales the front rows 
creamy, the hind dark brown, vertical bristles golden-brown, Basal joint 
of antenna deep brown with a few pale scales on the inner side, remaining 
joints dark brown with brown verticillate hairs. Palpi clad with deep 
brown scales and pale yellow ones on the apex. Proboscis black scaled at 
base and apex, and creamy-yellow in the middle. 
Thorax. Prothoracic lobes deep purple with golden-brown narrow- 
curved scales above, dark brown below. Mesonotum black the anterior 
two-thirds, clad with narrow-curved scales golden and golden-brown in 
colour, posterior third with black scales at the sides and some creamy 
ones in the centre round a bare space at base of scutellum. Scutellum 
black with deep brown narrow scales and a few creamy ones intermixed 
Pleurae deep brown with patches of white scales. Wings mottled with 
dark brown and pale yellow scales; at the apex of the wings the scales are 
large clavate or almost piriform scales, many of them have obliquely 
truncated ends, on the fifth vein they are all of this shape; the light coloured 
scales are about as numerous as the dark. Coxae dark brown with white 
scales; each femur has a narrow basal ring of pure white scales and is 
entirely white scaled beneath and in the hind femora at the sides, but 
above on the hind, and above, and laterally on the fore and mid femora, the 
scaling is dark brown mingled with numerous white scales. The tibiae are 
as much mottled as the femora and have four rows of short golden spines and 
a narrow creamy apical ring; the metatarsi and first three tarsal joints of all 
legs have narrow creamy basal and apical bands, in the hind legs the last 
tarsal joint has a minute basal band. Ungues simple and equal,'empodium 
Abdomen .—Deep brownish-black each segment with a broad apical 
band of dingy yellow with a slight greenish tinge. These bands are 
enlarged laterally and the free edge is therefore concave. The venter is 
dingy white. 
Male.. Antennae with plumes steel-grey or fawn-brown according to 
the direction of the light. Palpi longer than the proboscis by the two last 
joints; ultimate joint with the apical half golden-brown with golden hairs, 
basal half almost black with black scales and hairs, and a narrow 
creamy-yellow band at its immediate base, penultimate joint black with a 
basal golden-brown band and black hairs, antepenultimate joint black, with 
