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anterior face. Mesonotum black in some specimens, in others deep brown * 
the anterior three-fourths is clad with blackish-brown, and golden-brown 
narrow-curved scales the latter arranged in three distinct lines, one central 
and one on either side; posterior fourth clad with black narrow-curved 
scales. Scutellum brown, all three lobes with black narrow-curved scales, 
and on the apex of the middle lobe are a few hair-like golden scales; 
bristles dark brown, there being twelve to the central lobe. Pleune brown 
with silvery scales. Wings with dark brown and pale yellow scales ; the 
lateral scales on the veins of the first fork cell are long clavate scales for the 
most part, but near the apex of these veins some are much broader and some 
have oblique ends; on the third vein there are lanceolate scales and on its 
apical half some broad piriform scales, and others quite as broad but oblique 
ended. There are similar scales on the veins of the second cell and the 
branches of the fifth vein ; fork cells long, the first rather longer, and a 
little narrower than the second, the bases of the two cells are about level 
the stem of the first about one-third the length of the cell; posterior cross- 
vam rather more than its own length distant from the median. Cox® dark 
brown, femora and tibiae mottled with dark purple-brown and yellow 
scales ; all tarsal joints on the hind legs, and all but the last on fore and 
mid legs with a narrow creamy-yellow basal band. Ungues equal and 
simple. ^ 
• ,A bd °r n ' ^ rst se g men t light yellowish-brown, remaining segments 
with dark brown scales; the second third and fourth have the merest trace 
of an apical yellow band, on the fifth it is a little more marked while quite 
half the sixth segment is golden-brown and the seventh and eight almost 
entirely golden scaled. 
Male. Antennal joints pale and dark brown. Plumes dark and olive- 
brown. Palpi longer than the proboscis by their last two joints ; apical 
half of ultimate joint golden-brown and there is a narrow golden-brown 
band at its base, the portion between clad with black scales; the hairs on 
the joint are very long and are coloured golden-brown on the parts scaled 
so and black on the black part, penultimate joint black, with a band of 
go en-brown scales at its base, and a row of long black hairs inserted on 
eit er side, antepenultimate joint with a ring of golden-brown scales at its 
apex, a band of the same beyond its centre opposite a narrow band on the 
proboscis, and a narrower band nearer its base. Proboscis with a band 
in width about one-fifth its total length. 
Abdomen .—With golden-brown bands on both apex and base of all 
segments after the second, bore and mid ungues unequal the larger unguis 
um-serrate. 
Occurrence* Described from a series bred from larvae and adults taken 
in bungalow at Kuala Lumpur and elsewhere. 
, . Remarks. A very distinct Taeniorhyncus and in many respects resem- 
ui ln ? u ^enax. .I* i s however a much darker mosquito than Tenax the 
black thorax with it dark scaling and golden lines differing markedly from 
the thoracic ornamentation of Tenax and Ager. Like T. Ager the wing is 
much mottled but the pale scales are not so numerous and the lateral scales 
are not nearly so broad while the female abdomen is only banded on the 
apical segments is this point it resembles T. Tenax. In the fresh specimens 
the anterior thorax looks quite black. 
