Genus Brevirhynchus . 
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The genus is closely related to Desvoidya, but can be told by 
the longer 9 palpi and the squamose characters over the wings 
uentioned on p. 144. Three species so far described which 
tabulate as below :— 
Abdomen black, with basal median yellow 
patches and white triangular lateral spots. 
Legs with faint banding... magnus. Theobald. 
2. Abdomen black, with snowy-white bands near 
apex of some segments and long thin lateral 
creamy spots. Legs basal pale bands.. annulipalpis. Theobald. 
3. Abdomen with apical yellow bands. Legs 
brown, narrow apical pale bands .. apicalis. Theobald. 
Brevirhynchus magnus. Theobald (1908). 
Bee. Ind. Mus. II., pt. iii., No. 30, 293 (1908), Theobald. 
Thorax rich brown in the middle with white border all round 
the front and sides, pleurae densely white scaled; head black, 
white around the edge and in the middle; the short thick 
proboscis black ; the palpi black, nearly as long as the proboscis. 
Abdomen black with basal median yellow patches, snowy-white 
triangular lateral spots, the base of the triangles towards the 
posterior borders of the segments, but a black line of scales 
between; the fifth, sixth and seventh spots yellow at the base ; 
venter with broad yellow basal bands, narrow black apical ones. 
Legs blackish with faint traces of banding. Male palpi long and 
thin, acuminate. 
9 . Head clothed with rather large flat dusky black scales, 
creamy-white ones at the sides, and some black ones below them 
and then white again, a narrow band passing around the eyes 
and some pale ones in the middle; some long golden-brown 
chaetae projecting forwards; proboscis short, thick swelling 
apically (but actual apex acuminate), twice curved, jet black, 
hairy ; palpi long and thin, about two-thirds the length of the 
proboscis, the apical segment very long, black, some pale scales 
below at the apex and traces of others below at the base of the long 
segment, antennae brown, basal segment with some flat pale scales. 
Thorax shiny black clothed with long thin narrow-curved 
I bronzy-brown scales, becoming broader behind and with large 
narrow-curved white scales in front, and the sides forming a 
.white border around the brown central area ; toward the roots 
of the wings the white area is composed of large flat white scales 
&nd some occur elsewhere passing on to the densely flat white 
vol. v. a L 
