Genus Taeniorliynchus. 203 
behind, the purple being dark towards the sides, where it forms 
four dark patches on each side, three rows of golden-yellow 
scales in front, the lateral ones bending round the front spots 
and also continued down to the scutellum, bristles chestnut- 
brown, long in front and at the sides ; scutellum pale yellow in 
the middle, dark purple laterally, with four golden bristles to the 
median lobe ; metanotum purplish-brown, paler in the middle; 
pleurae pale yellowish, with three black lines, the lower one on 
the coxae, these lines are really composed of three long spots 
each. 
Abdomen bright orange-yellow, the apices of the second to 
fifth segments metallic purple, the first segment has a bunch of 
dark scales in the middle ; ventrally the abdomen is yellow, with 
narrow apical dark bands, anal segments all yellow, pubescence 
yellow, very dense towards the apex of the abdomen. 
Legs clothed with orange-yellow scales, with a few scattered 
black ones, especially prevalent on the tibiae and forming a 
black spot at the apex of all the joints in the fore limbs, 
indistinctly so in the mid limbs; in the hind legs the black 
scales form a broad band at the base and apex of the tibiae, and 
a broad black band at the apex of the metatarsi and tarsi. 
Ungues equal and simple. 
a, 
Fig. 249. 
Taeniorliynchus conojpas, Frau, 
a, Wing of 9 (X. 14); b, wing scales ; c, scutellum. 
Wings longer than the abdomen, with a yellowish tinge, 
particularly so along the costal region; veins yellow, clothed with 
pale fuscous yellow scales ; there is a deep purple spot on the 
costa at the root of the wing ; base of the second posterior cell 
very little nearer the base of the wing than that of the first 
