Genus Taeniorhynchus. 19 9 
are also collections of yellow scales basally ; venter covered with 
yellow scales. 
Legs densely covered with black scales with a few scattered 
yellow ones ; knees yellowish ; fore tarsi, except the last, basally 
pale, the banding to some extent involving the apex of the 
preceding joint; posterior metatarsi with dense brown hairs on 
the ventral aspect of their base; mid and hind tarsi the same, 
the last tarsal joint paler than the rest. 
Wings with the veins clothed with a double row of broad 
brown scales ; fringe dark brown; first sub-marginal cell a little 
longer and very much narrower than the second posterior cell; 
cross-veins nude. 
Length .—6 • 5 to 7 mm. 
Habitat .—Straits Settlements, Perak (Wray) (22. 11. and 21. 
12. 1899). 
Observations .—In old specimens the scales on the head are 
white. I have seen specimens from the west coast of Africa 
and Durban very like this species, but I find they are distinct— 
not even Taeniorhynchi , although the thoracic ornamentation is 
similar. 
The curious arrangement of the thorax and the dense black 
bristles on its posterior half form characters by which this 
species can at once be identified even with a hand-lens. 
I can find no banded-proboscis species previously described at 
all like this mosquito, which is a very characteristic form, and 
whose thoracic ornamentation will at once render its identity 
easy. 
4. Taeniorhynchus ager. Giles. 
(Entomologist, p. 196, July, 1901.) 
Thorax deep chestnut-brown, with scattered golden scales, 
almost white over the roots of the wings. Abdomen black, with 
apical creamy-white bands. Legs ochraceous, with black and 
white scales, giving them a mottled appearance; tarsi basally 
pale banded on the fore legs, apically and basally on the mid and 
hind legs. 
£ . Head covered with dull, pale creamy-white curved scales, 
with scattered brown, forked, upright ones behind, which are 
ochraceous at the tips, and flat white ones at the sides, forming 
a pale spot; palpi dark brown, with the apical joint yellow, and 
ending in a brown spine, base of the next two joints banded 
