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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
1. Taeniorhynchus fasciolatus. Arribalzaga. 
(Rev. d. Mus. d. 1. Plata, p. 50.) 
(Fig. 121, PI. XXXI.) 
Thorax dark brown, with a broad median paler line covered 
with golden scales, with two pale-scaled lines in front and two 
behind. Abdomen dusky black and brown, with six lateral 
patches of white scales; venter with yellowish scales and brown 
bands. Legs with basal white bands to metatarsi and tarsi, 
apical to the femora and tibiae, the femora with a white band 
near the apex. 
9. Head dark brown, with white curved scales dotted 
about and black upright forked ones, a narrow pale border 
round the eyes, white curved scales at the sides of the head; 
eyes black; antennae deep brown, faintly pale banded, basal 
joint and base of the second joint testaceous; palpi with black 
scales at the top of the joints, brown at their bases, the apical 
joint white scaled, five-jointed; proboscis dark, almost black, 
with a broad creamy-white band in the middle and with the 
apex pale. 
Thorax dark brown, with a broad median testaceous line 
covered with scattered curved golden scales, which forks about 
halfway across the mesonotum, and which become paler near 
the scutellum; also a curved line of pale scales on each side 
in front, and another on each side behind, over the roots of 
the wings; there are also dense fuscous bristles over the roots 
of the wings; scutellum with curved pale golden scales and dark 
brown border-bristles ; metanotum brown; pleurae brown, with 
a greyish-sheen and white patch of scales. 
Abdomen dark steel-blue, almost black, and ochraceous, 
covered with dusky black and brown scales, with six lateral 
patches of white scales; posterior borders of the segments with 
golden hairs, very long on the first segment, which is dark, with 
dusky black scales; venter with yellowish scales and indistinct 
bands of dark brown. 
Legs with the femora white beneath towards the base, 
yellowish above near the base, speckled with dark brown 
scales, which become densely packed towards the apex, which 
is almost black; on the dark apical end is a pure white band; 
knee spot white; tibiae dark blackish-brown, with silvery 
