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FEED. Y. THEOBALD 
den brown border-bristles ; metanotum deep brown ; pleuræ and protho- 
racic lobes densely scaled with flat white scales. 
Abdomen black scaled with scattered creamy white scales all over 
but forming prominent basal bands and narrower apical ones as well, 
basal segment bright testaceous with scattered flat white scales ; border 
bristles pale ; venter dark with scattered creamy white scales all over. 
Legs mottled with brown and creamy white scales, the femora and tibiæ 
with more pale scales than the tarsi, the venter of all the segments pale 
scaled ; ungues thick, equal uniserrated. 
Wings (Plate I) rather densely scaled with brown and creamy scales, 
giving the veins a mottled appearance ; first submarginal cell considerably 
longer and narrower than the second posterior cell its base about level with 
that of the latter, its stem about half the length of the cell ; stem of the 
second posterior cell nearly as long as the cell ; supernumerary and mid 
cross-veins meet at an angle, the posterior not quite its own length 
distant from the mid, scales at the base of the veins creamy. Halteres 
with pale stem and fuscous knob. 
Length : 6 to 6’5 mm. 
Habitat : Sfax, Tunis (Bibó, 1903). 
Observations. Described from five perfect 5 ’s one dissected and 
mounted in balsam. They are large conspicuous Mosquitoes looking like 
Culex cantans Meig. etc., which have densely scaled wings and similar 
palpi. The complete speckeling of the abdomen, legs, wings and palpi 
should at once separate it from all other known Culicidæ. It is best pla¬ 
ced in this genus but the £ palpi are apparently only 2 -jointed, the 
2 basal joints being fused. 
Genus T AENIORHYN CHU S Aeeib. 
Dipt. Arg. p. 47 (1899) Aeeibalzaga ; Monogr. Culicid. II. p. 190 (1901) Theobald. 
1. Tæniorhynchus acer Walk. 
List. Brit. Mus. p. 2. Walkee ; Monogr. Culicid. II. p. 211 (1901) Theobald. 
A large series from the following localities : Brisbane, Queensland 
(Bibo, 1900); and the following places in New Guinea: Friedrich-Wil- 
helmshafen, 1896; Mount Hansemann, Astrolabe Bay 1901 and Yomba 
1901 (Bibo). 
This species has also been recorded from Bupengary, Queensland and 
New Zealand. 
