Genus Taeniorhynchus. 259 
The specimen sent by Mr. Cornford from China has both 
apical and basal abdominal banding. 
In some specimens—for instance, those from China—the 
anterior thoracic ornamentation is not pale golden, but distinctly 
ashy-grey and bright reddish-brown, and shows two bare dark 
eye-like spots. 

Fig. 136, 
Wing of Taeniorhynchus tenax. 9. Theobald, 
The wing scales are also mottled brown and yellow and the 
fork-cells are not of such unequal width as stated in Vol. II, 
p. 199. The description in Vol. II. was drawn up from a single 
9 ,.in which the wings were not flat. 
TAENIORHYNCHUS CONFINNIS. Arribalzaga. 
(Dipt. Argent., La Plata, p. 49, 1891, Arribalzaga.) 
Thorax deep rich chestnut-brown, with small golden-brown 
curved scales, and ornamented with pale scales in front, and a 
V-shaped patch on each side about the middle of the meso- 
notum, and pale scales in front of the scutellum. Abdomen 
deep brown, with silvery white apical bands. Proboscis banded. 
Legs deep brown, with pale speckled femora and tibiae and basal 
pale bands to the metatarsi and tarsi. 
2. Head brown, with narrow-curved pale golden scales 
and numerous long thin brown upright forked scales ; antennae 
deep brown, with narrow clear pale bands, except the three 
basal joints, which are bright brown, the basal one with a few 
narrow-curved golden scales; proboscis usually with a broad 
pale band, but very variable, some having the band quite 
narrow ; palpi testaceous brown, with broad black scales except 
on the apex, which is covered with very small narrow-curved 
golden ones. Thorax deep rich chestnut-brown to deep brown, 
covered with very small curved bronzy-brown scales, orna- 
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