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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
Thorax dusky yellowish-brown, with a median dark line, 
covered fairly closely with narrow curved hair-like bright 
golden-orange scales; with two rows of dark brown bristles, 
and a row of long golden-brown ones over the roots of the 
wings ; scutellum pale yellowish-browm, with golden border 
bristles, those of the mid lobe asymmetrical, four on one side 
and three on the other; there is, however, a trace of a small 
fourth bristle ; covered with narrow curved pale golden scales; 
metanotum ochraceous or yellowish-brown ; pleurae yellow, with 
fine yellow hairs and bristles, and a patch of dull white semi¬ 
transparent scales placed parallel with the long axis of the body. 
Abdomen yellow, densely clothed with flat orange-yellow scales 
and with yellow bristles ; venter rather pale orange-yellow. 
Legs yellow, clothed with orange-yellow scales, femora and 
tibiae with brown bristles; in the hind legs the apex of the 
tibia, metatarsi and first tarsal black scaled, the last three tarsi 
entirely black scaled, the base of the second may be yellowish; 
ungues rather large, equal, simple, black. 
Wings tinged with orange, and with orange veins and yellow 
scales ; veins thickly scaled, with double and treble median rows, 
and rather broad long lateral scales, but not so long as in the 
typical Culex wing; first sub-marginal cell longer and narrower 
Fig. 254. 
Taeniorhynchus aurites. n. sp. 
a, Wing of ? (X. 12) ; b and c, wing scales. 
than the second posterior cell, its stem equal to about one-third 
the length of the cell, bases of the fork-cells nearly level; stem 
of second posterior cell equal to about half the length of the 
cell; posterior cross-vein about twice its own length distant from 
the mid cross-vein. 
Hal teres yellow. 
Length.— 5 mm. 
