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basal band of yellow scales which increase in size posteriorly ; 
anal segment dark, with steel-blue and purple reflections, the 
whole abdomen covered with fine long golden hairs; genitalia 
with the basal joint yellow at the base, purple at the apex, 
claspers yellow. 
Legs yellow at the base, all the remaining parts dark scaled, 
almost black in some lights, with an ochraceous metallic lustre 
Fig. 256. 
Taeniorhynchus brevicellulus. n. sp. 
a, Fore ungues of the ; b, male palpus ; 
c, apex of antenna. 
in others. Ungues of the fore legs unequal, the larger one with 
a large and a small basal tooth, mid claws with one tooth, hind 
equal and simple. 
Wings with brown scaled veins, both fork-cells very short, 
the first sub-marginal cell narrower than second posterior cell, 
slightly longer, the base of the second posterior cell nearer the 
base of the wing than that of the first sub-marginal; their stems 
long. 
Length. —3'5 to 4*8 mm. 
Habitat .—Selangor (Wray); Thayetmyo, Burma (Watson). 
Time of capture. —August. 
Observations .—Described from a couple of 9 s anc ^ a d f rom 
Burma and some 9 ?s from Malay. The species can readily be 
told from the other yellow Taeniorhynchi by the extremely short 
fork-cells in the 9 • 
