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Abdomen yellow, with dark apical bands to the segments. Legs 
yellow, with the apices of the joints black. Wings yellowish, 
most of the veins bright yellow scaled, but some with lateral 
black scales. Ungues of the 9 equal and simple; of the 
unequal, the larger uniserrated, the smaller simple. 
9 . Head brown, with narrow curved pale yellow scales, 
almost white ones round the eyes, and with long thin yellowish 
and brown upright forked scales; antennae brown, basal joint 
yellowish-brown; second joint rather swollen, verticillate hairs 
brown, placed close to the base of the joints; palpi densely scaled, 
dark brown at the base and apex; proboscis yellow, black at the 
apex, apex swollen, acuminate ; clypeus ochraceous-brown ; thorax 
pale brown, with longish golden curved hair-like scales, which 
become golden-brown on each side in front; the scales in the 
middle of the mesonotum form more or less of a line; two 
lateral lines of golden-brown bristles and traces of a median 
line, as well as numerous long ones over the roots of the wings 
and at the sides ; scutellum pale ochraceous, with variable 
number of median bristles, four in the type; metanotum chest¬ 
nut-brown. 
Abdomen covered with dense flat yellow scales, the apical 
borders of the segments being broadly banded with violet scales, 
more or less metallic, and with small golden bristles. 
Legs yellow, with yellow scales, traces of narrow apical 
blackish bands on all the joints of the fore and mid legs, very 
faint on the last two tarsal joints, in the hind legs the dark 
apices of the joints are more distinct; at the apices of the joints 
are also dark brown bristles; ungues black, equal, simple, nearly 
straight. 
Wings with yellowish veins and long dull yellowish lateral 
scales, and some scattered dark ones, most of the sixth vein dusky 
Fig. 251. 
Taeniorhynchus Annettii. n. sp. (9). (X, 9.) 
scaled ; fork-cells both long and narrow, the first sub-marginal 
cell longer than the second posterior cell, very little narrower; 
posterior cross-vein rather more than its own length distant from 
