Genus Taeniorhynchus . 421 
Taeniorhynchus vioiaceus. Theobald (1908). 
Third Kept. Well. Res. Labs., 262 (1908), Theobald. 
Thorax black, with pale creamy scales in front with faint 
greenish reflections. Abdomen metallic violet, with small basal 
lateral creamy spots. Legs unhanded violet, paler at base. 
^ . Head shiny black, with narrow-curved scales, of a pale 
creamy colour with a faint tinge of pale green in some lights; 
long upright black forked scales and flat pale lateral ones ■ 
antennae black, basal segment globose shiny, with a few curved 
hairs ; palpi rather long, dark scaled; proboscis dark with violet 
reflections. 
Thorax shiny black, with long narrow-curved scales, the front 
half with scales of a pale creamy colour showing pale green in 
' Fig. 187. 
Wing of Taeniorhynchus vioiaceus. 9. Theobald. 
some lights, the posterior half with bronzy scales, except just in 
front of the bare space before the scutellum ; chaetae long and 
black, especially over the base of the wings ; scutellum pale with 
narrow-curved pale scales and black border-bristles, four large 
ones to the mid-lobe and several very small ones; pleurae with 
patches of pale scales ; metanotum deep brown. 
Abdomen clothed with metallic violet scales, the first segment 
with dusky scales and long brown fine hairs, the second and 
following segments with small basal lateral creamy spots; 
posterior border-bristles brown, lateral ones pale golden to 
brown; venter dusky. 
Legs uniformly metallic violet; femora testaceous at the base 
and below : spines on the femora, tibiae and metatarsi thick and 
black ; ungues dark, equal and simple. 
Wings with typical Taeniorhynchus scales dark; the first 
