Genus Taeniorhynchus . 429 
Var„ occellata. Theobald (1907). 
Mono. Cnlicid. XV',, 488 (1907). 
Sarawak (Kuching); China,* 
Type in the British Museum. 
Taeniorhynchus epidesmus. Theobald (1910). 
Eeo. Ind. Mus. IV., 22 (1910). 
Thorax brown, mottled with creamy scales and some grey 
ones in front of' the roots of the wings ; proboscis pale with a 
narrow black base and broader black apex. Abdomen black 
with very narrow golden oehreons basal bands and very broad 
apical ones, a dark lateral line on each side of the segments most 
pronounced on the apical ones, the penultimate all golden 
ochreous, the apical with two deep black spots. Legs ochreous 
brown with apical and basal pale banding on the darker, tarsi. 
Wings with a yellowish tinge, brownish scales and a pale spot 
towards the tip on the costa. 
2 . Head brown, clothed with pale creamy and ochreous 
narrow-curved scales and broadly expanded black upright forked 
scales, paler in the middle of the head, chaetae brown and pale 
ochreous; clypeus ochreous; palpi black scaled with some 
ochreous scales and creamy scaled apices ; proboscis with a very 
broad ochreous pale band, base and apex black; antennae brown 
towards the apices, testaceous towards the base. 
Thorax deep brown, clothed with creamy and brown narrow- 
curved scales, some paler before the roots of the wings, giving it 
a mottled appearance; some short, thick, black chaetae just 
before the roots of the wings, long brown and ochreous ones over 
the roots and behind them f seutellum brown, with small, narrow, 
pale scales and golden-brown, long border-bristles; metanotum 
pale ochreous with a grey sheen; pleurae brown and ochreous 
with patches of flat pale scales and golden hairs. 
Abdomen brown with violet reflections, basal segment golden 
oehraceous with two small dark patches of scales; the remaining 
segments with narrow basal and very broad' apical bright golden 
ochreous bands, except the last segment, which has two prominent 
black spots; the other segments have more or less marked thin 
black lateral lines, except on the last two or three apical seg- 
* Vide Vol. III., p. 259. 
