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Genus Taeniorhynehus. 
the mid cross-vein; lateral scales of the veins rather elongated 
and thick; median ones paired, thicker, their apices rather 
oblique; border-scales broad convex at the apex; halteres pale 
ochraceous. 
Length. —4*8 to 5 mm. 
£. Proboscis ochraceous-yellow, dusky at the base and 
tip ; palpi yellowish, the apical joint mostly dark brown, apices 
of the penultimate and antepenultimate dark brown, the long 
joint with a narrow blackish ring on its basal half; the 
last two joints and the apex of the antepenultimate with long 
black and yellow hairs; antennae yellowish, with narrow dark 
bands, plume hairs brown, flaxen at the base; chaetae of the 
mid lobe of the scutellum asymmetrical, four long dark ones, 
tw T o small median pale ones, and an asymmetrical one on one 
side. 
Abdomen as in the 9 ] first segment with some dark median 
scales, with long dense yellow pubescence. 
Ungues of the fore and mid legs unequal, the larger one 
uniserrated, hind equal and simple. 
Fig. 252. 
Taeniorhynehus Annettii. n. sp. (J). (X. 9.) 
Wings with the scales lateral only, scales short and rather 
broad; fork-cells short, base of the second posterior nearer the 
base of the wing; posterior cross-vein more than its own length 
distant from the mid cross-vein. 
Halteres pale ochraceous; male genitalia, with the claspers, 
swollen and beak-shaped at the end. 
Length. —4*8 mm. 
Time of capture. —April. 
Habitat —Old Calabar. (C. No. 4.) (Annett.) 
Observations .—A very beautiful species, brought home by 
Dr. Annett. The male has very peculiar genital armature 
(Fig. 250, g). 
