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their bases ; fore ungues unequal, the larger with a small lateral 
basal tooth and a very large one near the middle, the smaller 
simple ; mid ungues unequal, the smaller simple, the larger with 
a large basal tooth and a narrower and more basal central one ; 
hind ungues equal and simple. 
Wings with short fork-cells, the first longer and narrower 
than the second, its base nearer the apex of the wing, its stem as 
- Fig. 195. 
Wing of Chrysoconops pygmaeus. 6 . Theobald. 
long as the cell; stem of the second posterior as long as the cell; 
posterior cross-vein as long as the mid, about twice its own length 
distant from it. 
Length. —5 mm. 
Habitat. —Sylhet, Assam (Major Hall) 9 ; Purneah, N. Bengal 
(C. Paiva) ; Bajmahal, Bengal and Calcutta (N. Annandale). 
Time of capture.- —6. viii. 07 ; 31. vii. 07 ; 17. vii. 07. 
Observations. —The 9 described from a single specimen. One 
cotype in the British Museum collection. It comes near G. brevi- 
cellulus, Theobald, but can at once be told by the completely 
golden thorax, smaller size and different venation. Annandale 
says the eyes of the £ are green in life. 
Types in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 
Chrysoconops brevicellulus. Theobald (1901). 
Taeniorliynehus brevicellulus. Theobald (1901). 
Mono. Culicid. II., 212 (1901); III., 268 (1903); IV., 492 (1907), Theobald ; 
Rec. Ind. Mus. II., pt. iii., No. 30. 300 (1908), Theobald. 
Selangor ; Perak ; Dindings; Kuala Lumpur, Malay States ; 
Mukerian, Hoshiarpur, India ; Ceylon. 
Additional localities. —Calcutta ; Sylhet, Assam ; Sangar, 
