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ments where there are pale creamy lateral spots ; venter ochreous 
Legs ochreous with scattered dark scales, prominent at the 
apices of the femora and tibiae and on their upper surfaces; tarsi 
slightly darker with apical and basal pale bands except on the 
last tarsal; ungues equal and simple. 
Wings with brown scales, a pale ochreous spot towards the 
tip on the costa and first long vein ; the first sub-marginal longer 
and narrower than the second posterior, its base slightly nearer 
the base of the wing, its stem nearly one-fourth the length of the 
cell; stem of the second posterior not quite half the length of 
the cell ; posterior cross-vein about twice its own length distant 
from the mid. Halteres pale ochreous, with some small flat pale 
ochreous scales on the knob. 
Length. —5*5 mm. 
Habitat. —Bhogaon, Purneah District, N. Bengal (C. A. Paiva). 
Time of capture. —2. x. 08. 
Observations .—Described from a single perfect 5 • The very 
bright and marked abdominal banding will at once separate this 
from other Taeniorhynchus, together with the marked thorax. 
Type in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 
Taeniorhynchus (?) niger. Giles (1904). 
Journ. Trop. Med., 88B, 884, Dec. 15 (1904). 
The following is Giles’ description :— 
“ Wing black. Band of proboscis sharply defined, rather 
narrow, placed at the middle. Abdominal segments sooty with 
narrow white bands of uniform width. Tarsal banding extremely 
minute, especially on distal joint. Thorax sooty grounded, 
with deep golden-brown curved scales, rather paler at the sides 
behind. A very sombre species, with apical lateral spots to the 
abdominal segments, not visible from above, and the venter impure 
white, with narrow black bands across the apices of the segments.” 
Under supplemental characters (p. 384) Giles gives the 
following :— 
“ Head with a median area on the occiput, clothed with golden 
falciform scales like those of Howardina, and also with two strong 
brown bristles projecting forwards between the antennae. Nape 
densely clothed with yellow and brown forked scales ; lateral 
flat-scaled areas with a black spot behind the eyes, enclosed in a 
loop of white. Palpi brown with white tips. Scutellum with 
