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Genus Chrysoconops. 
Thorax shiny black with narrow-curved pale scales, almost 
silvery; chaetae dark brown; scutellum brown with narrow- 
curved pale scales and four posterior border-bristles to the mid 
lobe ; metanotum black ; pleurae deep brown with patches of 
pale flat scales. 
Abdomen black with metallic violet reflections, venter black 
but with traces of pale apical bands on the last few segments. 
Legs unbanded, deep brown with bronzy and metallic violet 
reflections in certain lights, bases and base of under side of femora 
ochreous ; femora and tibiae spinose ; ungues equal and simple. 
Wings with dense brown scales; fork-cells rather short ; the 
first a little longer and narrower than the second, its stem about 
one-third the length of the cell, stem of the second about the 
same length; posterior cross-vein shorter than the mid, about 
three times its own length distant from it. 
Length ,—6 mm. 
Habitat. —Angola (Dr. Creighton Wellman). 
Observations .—Described from a single $ . Its general dark 
colouration at once separates it from all other Chrysoconops. 
Type in the British Museum. 
Chrysoconops ochraceus. Theobald (1903). 
Taeniorhynchus ochraceus. Theobald (1903). 
Mono. Culicid. III., 263 (1903). 
Kuala Lumpur, Malay States. 
Type in the British Museum. 
Chrysoconops pygmaeus. Theobald (1908). 
Ind. Mus. Rec. II., pt. iii., No. 30, 300 (1908), Theobald. 
Head and thorax golden-yellow, proboscis and palpi ochreous 
with dusky scales, especially at the tip of the proboscis. Abdomen 
violet-brown with some basal creamy bands and yellow scaled 
apex. Legs unbanded, ochreous-brown. Wing scales brownish; 
fork-cells rather small. 
9. Head yellowish-brown, clothed with creamy-yellow 
narrow-curved scales, dense golden-yellow upright forked scales 
and golden chaetae. Eyes black and silvery. Palpi rather long, 
ochreous with rather transparent dusky scales and black chaetae ; 
proboscis ochreous, clothed with metallic violet-brown scales, 
antennae brown with pale bands at the verticels and testaceous 
basal segments. 
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