Genus Taeniorhynchus, 
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bristles black; scutellum pale yellowish-brown, with a few 
scattered pale, narrow curved scales and bright golden-brown 
border-bristles ; metanotuin clear ochraceous-brown; pleurae 
pale yellowish-brown, with a few pale yellowish scales. 
Abdomen, when denuded, dull ochraceous-brown in some 
lights, dark shiny black in others; covered with dusky scales, 
almost black, with a few dull yellowish ones here and there, and 
with five or six yellowish-white lateral spots in the last five or 
six segments. (Ficalbi describes the abdomen as black, with 
dull yellow specks and six bright yellowish trapezoidal spots 
along the sides.) Numerous golden-brown hairs along the sides 
and posterior borders. 
Legs with the coxae yellowish, with a few black scales; 
femora yellowish, with a few scattered black scales above, 
forming a deep black band round the apex, which is white, 
the white band not involving the tibia; tibia yellowish, with 
Fig. 246. 
Taeniorhynchus Richardii, Ficalbi. 
a and b, Wing scales ; c, fore ungues of the $ ; 
d, ungues of the d- 
scattered black scales and some dull yellow ones, metatarsi and 
tarsi somewhat darker scaled, banded as follows : fore metatarsi 
and first two tarsi with traces of basal banding; in the mid legs 
the bands are more distinct, and with a trace in the middle 
of the metatarsi and on the base of the third tarsal; hind 
