Genus Taeniorhynchus. 423 
unequal, the large biserrate, the smaller simple; hind equal and 
simple. The claspers of the genitalia are of peculiar form. 
Wings with rather short fork-cells, first sub-marginal longer 
and narrower than the second posterior, its stem more than half 
the length of the cell ; stem of the 
second posterior cell not quite as long 
as the cell; posterior cross-vein not quite 
twice its own length distant from the 
mid cross-vein. 
Length .—5 * 5 mm. 
Habitat .—Sudan (H. King); Katemas, 
Bihe, Angola 3 $’s and 1 $ (Dr. Creighton 
Wellman). 
Time of capture. —2. ii. 05 and 26. 
iii. 05 at Bihe (C. W.), taken at dusk 
at 10 p.m. 
Observations .—Described from two $’s 
and one £ from the Sudan. The bright 
thoracic adornment and the brilliant abdomen at once enables the 
recognition of this species. The male claspers are very marked. 
The Angola specimens were faded and do not show the pale green 
hue in the thoracic scales. 
The types in the British Museum. 
Taeniorhynchus luteoabdominalis. Theobald (1910). 
Bee. Ind. Mus. IV., 23 (1910). 
Thorax brown marbled with bright yellowish-brown and grey 
scales on the front two-thirds, the rest bright brown scaled, the 
pale scales most prominent on the posterior edge of the brown 
and pale scaled area, also traces of a dark curved lateral line on 
each side before the wings. Head yellowish-brown, slightly 
darkened at the sides, pale around the eyes ; proboscis with a 
broad pale band, slightly darkened at the base and apex. 
Abdomen entirely clothed with golden ochreous scale. Legs 
unbanded, ochreous with slightly darkened tarsi. Wings with 
yellowish-brown scales, the apex paler above. 
? . Head brown, clothed with narrow-curved pale scales, 
especially around the eye border, bright ochreous upright forked 
scales in the middle, darker ones at the 'sides, small flat pale 
lateral scales ; clypeus brown ; palpi clothed with brown scales, a 
few pale ones dotted about and many at the apex ; proboscis with 
Fig. 190. 
Taeniorhynchus violaceus. 
Theobald. 
3 genitalia. 
