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and is thus intermediate, but nevertheless has all the forked 
cephalic scales black. 
CULICELSA NEOTAENIORHY^CHUS. nOV. sp. 
Thorax deep brown with bronzy scales and two paler spots ; 
proboscis black with a white median band. Abdomen black 
with basal white bands. Legs black with very narrow pale 
handing, to some extent involving both sides of the joints. 
9 . Head black, clothed with scanty dull golden and brown 
small narrow-curved scales and dense black upright forked 
scales; palpi black, white at apex; proboscis black with a 
prominent white median band; antennae deep brown, basal 
segment paler. Clypeus black. 
Thorax black, with narrow-curved bronzy-black scales, two 
thin parallel rows of narrow-curved golden ones in front, 
becoming in some specimens spots near the middle, a few similar 
Eig. 146. 
Wing of Culicelsa neotaeniorhynchus. 9. n. sp. 
scales at the sides and many before the scutellum ; scutellum 
black with narrow-curved pale dull golden scales; metanotum 
deep bright brown ; pleurae black with patches of flat ragged 
white scales. 
Abdomen jet black with basal white bands ; basal segment 
with a median black patch and long brown hairs with golden 
apices ; posterior border-bristles brown with golden reflections ; 
venter with broad basal white bands. 
Legs black; base of under side of femora silvery; very narrow 
pale bands from the tibio-metatarsal joint down to the second 
and third tarsal joint; ungues all equal and simple, the hind 
more curved than the fore and the mid. 
