Genus Toxorliynchites. 103 
scales and golden-orange hairs; venter dark with pale lyedian 
areas. Legs deep ochreous, clothed with black scales with violet 
reflections, the flrst and second fore tarsals white ; the first, 
second, and third in the mid legs, also the base of the metatarsi ; 
in the hind legs the base of the metatarsi are faintly white,> and 
the greater part of the first tarsal. Wings normal, the super¬ 
numerary a long way in front of the mid cross-vein ; the posterior 
much longer than the mid, a little nearer the apex of the wing 
and sloping backwards. 
Length .--^8 mm. 
Habitat. —Ohuasi, Ashanti (Dr. Graham). 
Time of capture. —20. vi. 07. 
Observations .—Described from a single female, perfect except 
that the head is rubbed. It is near T. marshallii, but can at 
once be told by the marked leg banding, by the more violet 
abdomen, the latter being coppery at the apex. 
Taken by Dr. Graham upon the flowers of a climbing plant 
on the edge of the railroad, about a mile north of Ohuasi. 
Only seen before 9 a.m. 
Type in the British Museum. 
Toxorhynchites brevipalpis. Theobald (1901). 
Mono. Oulicid. I., 245 (1901). 
Natal. 
Type in the British Museum. 
Toxorhynchites marshallii. Theobald (1903). 
Mono. Culicid. III., 121 (1903) ( 6 ), Theobald; Anns. Trop. Med. and 
Parasit. I., No. 1, 11 (1907) (?), Newstead. 
Newstead describes the 9 as follows :—Head scales bronzy 
blue at the sides and between the eyes, bronzy-green on occiput, 
black along the nape. Palpi of four segments ; sub-apical and 
apical segments minute, clothed with brilliant azure blue scales. 
Antennae black ; the first segment black at the base dorsally, 
grey at the apex with a patch of dull white scales ; pubescence 
grey, hairs black. Proboscis azure blue. Thorax—prothoracic 
lobes dull azure-blue, with bronzy-green reflections ; mesonotum 
black with brilliant bronzy-green scales; scutellar scales rich 
bronzy-yellow; and there are patches of the same coloured scales 
near the base of the wings ; pleurae almost covered with dull 
white scales. 
Abdomen azure-blue with rich violet reflections; penulti- 
