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A Monograph of Culicidae, 
with yellow, the following with a broad and narrow paler yellow 
band, hairs almost black; proboscis dark brown, pale banded at 
the base of the apical half; antennae banded brown and white, 
plumes brown. 
Thorax deep chestnut-brown, with scattered curved golden 
scales in front, becoming paler behind, and almost white over the 
roots of the wings, where they are somewhat longer, and form a 
a 
Fig. 248. 
Taeniorhynchus ager. Giles (<£). 
a, Abdominal ornamentation ; b, palpus and 
proboscis ; c, wing scales. 
line on each side of the bare space in front of the scutellum ; 
numerous black bristles over the root of wings, and a row on 
each side just in front of the scutellum, apparently not running 
as far as the middle of the mesonotum; scutellum brown, with 
numerous pale curved scales and dark border-bristles; metano- 
tum chestnut-brown; pleurae pale ochraceous-brown, with a 
patch of pale scales. 
Abdomen banded, basally with black scales, apically with 
creamy-white scales ; the first three segments have the dark basal 
bands convex, but on the next three they are prolonged laterally 
and thus concave, last segment mostly black scaled, hairy, hairs 
golden-brown; venter pale scaled, some segments show a narrow 
dark basal band. 
Legs deep ochraceous, covered with black and white scales, 
giving them a mottled appearance; tarsi basally banded; the 
first two on the fore legs only; the third joint very small, the 
fourth more than twice its length; fore ungues unequal, the 
larger one toothed ; in the mid legs the metatarsus is basally 
