Genus Chrysoconojjs. 
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Manipur Hut; Manipur (in Indian Museum, Calcutta) ; Trin- 
comalee, Ceylon (E. Green), 1 $ and 1 9 (hi British Museum); 
Samarang, Java, 2 f ’s (Jacobson), in Amsterdam Museum. 
Time of capture .-—-August in Calcutta; February, May and 
June at Sangar ; August, Manipur. 
Observations .—Taken on wall of bungalow in Manipur in 
August. 
Type in tbe British Museum. 
Chrysoconops acer. Walker (1848). 
Taeniorhynchus acer. Theobald (1801). 
Culex acer. Walker (1848). 
List. Brit. Mus. Dipt. 7 (1848), Walker; Mono. Culicid. II., 211 (1901). 
Hew Zealand ; Queensland. 
Chrysooonops nigrithorax. nov. sp. 
Head pale golden-yellow speckled with black ; palpi yellow 
speckled with black ; proboscis yellow at base, black at apex. 
Thorax dark with scattered golden scales. Abdomen uniformly 
Fig. 196. 
Chrysoconops nigrithorax. $. n. sp. Head. 
yellow. Legs very dark with broad pale metatarsal and tarsal 
bands. Wings tinged with yellow, with brown scales. 
5 . Head black with scattered pale golden narrow-curved 
scales and long thin black upright forked scales all over tbe 
surface; paler rather broader curved scales at the sides ; eyes 
large, silvery; palpi yellowish with scattered black and yellow 
scales; proboscis yellow scaled at the base, black scaled on tbe 
