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with small flat dull white scales on the lateral lobes and base of 
the median lobe, narrow-curved black scales on the apical half of 
the mid lobe, and there are a few creamy narrow-curved scales 
at the sides ; pleurae pale brown, with some patches of dull flat 
creamy scales ; border-bristles black ; metanotum chestnut-brown. 
Abdomen uniformly clothed with black scales, each segment 
with basal white creamy spots; border-bristles golden. 
Legs black, under side of femora grey, almost white on hind 
legs, knee spot white, a white dorsal spot on the apex of the fore 
and mid tibiae, a broad white band on the apex of the hind tibiae, 
spines on fore and mid legs dark, golden to golden-brown on the 
hind legs ; fore and mid ungues equal and uniserrate, equal and 
simple on the hind legs. 
Wings with brown scales, rather dense on the apical area, 
lateral vein scales long and rather broad, rounded apically; first 
sub-marginal cell longer and narrower than the second posterior 
cell, its base very slightly nearer the base of the wing than that 
of the latter, its stem more than half the length of the cell f 
stem of the second posterior also a little more than half the 
length of the cell; posterior cross-vein about one and a half 
times its own length distant from the mid. 
Length .—5 mm. 
Habitat. —Kumasi, Ashanti (Dr. Graham). 
Time of capture. —20. x. 07. 
Observations .—Described from a single perfect $ , reared from 
a larva taken in the hollow of a tree. It is a marked species 
easily told by the pale scutellum and marked white tibial band. 
Type in the British Museum. 
Genus TRICHORHYNCHUS. Theobald (1905). 
Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. XVI., 240 (1905); Mono. Culicid. 
IV., 270 (1907), Theobald. 
A single species only known. 
Trichorhynchus fuscus. Theobald (1905). 
Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. XVI., 240 (1905); Mono. Culicid. 
IV., 270 (1907). 
Peradeniya, Ceylon. 
Type in the British Museum. 
