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with numerous brown bristles especially on the roots of the wings ; 
scutellum brown with greyish-yellow narrow curved scales in the 
middle (forming a median line) ; metanotum deep chestnut- 
brown ; pleurae brown. Abdomen brown, covered with brown 
scales, and with rather indistinct basal creamy bands and some 
traces of pale apical scales ; venter brown with scattered grey 
scales. 
Wings with the veins densely clothed with typical brown 
Taeniorhynchus scales; first sub-marginal cell longer and 
narrower than the second posterior cell; cross-veins hidden 
under scales. 
Legs brown, banded femora with many white scales below, 
and scattered about above a dark ring near the apex, apex white ; 
tibiae with more or less distinct bands, three deep brown, two 
white; metatarsi with a white band in the middle ; tarsi of hind 
legs with basal white bands ; those of fore and mid legs missing, 
femora hairy, rest of the legs more or less spiny. Ungues of 
hind legs equal, simple. 
Length .—6 * 3 mm. 
Habitat .—United States. 
Observations .—Redescribed from Walker’s type in the British 
Museum, which is in fair condition, but the fore and mid tarsi 
are lost. It is a distinct Taeniorhynchus , and can easily be told 
from all known brown species by the banded tibiae and tarsi. 
6. Taeniorhynchus conopas. Frauenfeld. 
(Verhand. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, xvii. 451 (1867).) 
(Fig. 90, PI. XXIII.) 
Thorax golden-yellow with purple patches. Abdomen bright 
orange-yellow, apices of second to fifth segments metallic purple. 
Legs yellow, tarsi dark brown with pale basal bands; wings 
with a yellowish tinge. 
^ . Head densely covered with curved golden-yellow scales 
and a very few brown upright forked ones; eyes black below, 
with silvery sheen above; palpi clothed with yellow scales and a 
few black hairs ; antennae yellowish at the base, pale brownish 
towards apex, faintly pale banded ; proboscis dark yellow, black 
at the apex. 
Thorax golden-yellow, purple in front and at the sides, yellow 
