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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
Culex chloropterus. Humboldt (1820). 
Voyage aux r6g. equin. (historique), VII., 119 (1820). 
Culex maculatus. Humboldt (1820). 
Voyage aux reg. equin. (historique), VII., 119 (1820). 
Genus Taeniorhynchus. Arribalzaga. 
Taeniorhynchus africanus. Neveu-Lemaire (1906). 
Ditteri Eritrei, pt. ii., 4 (1908), Bezzi. 
Locality. —Egypt. 
Taeniorhynchus corticula. Dyar and Knab (1907). 
Journ. N. York Ent. Soc. XV., 101 (1907). 
Locality. —Panama. 
Taeniorhynchus pagei. n> sp. Ludlow. 
“ ? .—Head dark brown covered with light curved scales on the 
occiput and around the eyes, white flat lateral scales, and many very 
dark brown, almost black forked scales on the occiput, dark brown 
bristles projecting forward between the eyes ; antennae brown, verti- 
cels and pubescence brown, white unsealed bands at the joints, basal 
joint very dark brown; palpi very dark brown; proboscis dark brown 
showing blue iridescence in some lights; eyes dark brown; clypeus 
very dark brown. 
Thorax dark brown; prothoracic lobes apparently nude except for 
brown bristles; mesonotum covered with light, brassy-yellow curved 
scales with two submedian dark (bare) lines, the intermediate space 
having the scales arranged in a definite order and extending back to 
the 4 bare ’ space, the laterad scales also extending back on each side 
of the 4 bare 5 space so as to suggest light lines. Near the wing joint 
these scales change colour with change of direction of light, being of 
this peculiar brassy-yellow in some lights and dark in others, but 
oftener dark ; there are two large bunches of long brown bristles in 
the bare space and at the wing joint; pleura are dark brown with a 
few bunches of white flat scales; scutellum light brown with light 
curved scales and brown bristles ; metanotum dark brown. 
Abdomen dark brown densely covered with dark brown having 
marked blue iridescence, a tiny light yellowish median basal spot on 
the eighth segment, and small lateral white spots on most of the 
segments (8-6 inclusive), light hairs at the apices; venter yellowish 
basal bands extending laterally. 
Legs : coxae and trochanters yellowish-white ; femora all dorsally 
dark scaled, with blue iridescence, and ventrally silvery-white nearly 
