264 A Monograph of Culicidae. 
Thorax ochraceous brown, covered with narrow-curved 
golden scales and with long brown bristles, golden at their base, 
over the roots of the wings, and forming two parallel lines, one 
on each side of the bare space in front of the scutellum ; 
scutellum pale brown, with 
narrow-curved golden scales, 
four long golden brown border- 
bristles, and two small golden 
median ones and an outer small 
one on each side ; metanotum 
ochraceous brown ; pleurae pale 
Fig. 140. ochraceous brown. 
Scutellum of Taeniorhynchus ochraceus. Abdomen ochraceous brown 
gr to deep brown, clothed with 
ochraceous yellow scales, the second to the fifth segments with 
traces of median purple scales ; venter ochraceous yellow ; border- 
bristles and lateral bristles golden yellow. 
Legs ochraceous yellow and brown, mottled with brown 
scales ; apex of the femora black; base and apex of the hind 
tibiae with black bands, fore and mid metatarsi and tarsi brown, 
with an ochraceous tinge ; hind metatarsi ochraceous, with broad 
black apex, hind tarsi deep brown ; fore, mid and hind ungues 
equal and simple, rather straight. 
Wings with yellow scaled veins and dusky fringe ; border- 
scales yellow; first sub-marginal cell longer and _ slightly 
narrower than the second posterior cell, its base slightly nearer 
the apex of the wing, its stem equal to about half the length of 
the cell; stem of the second posterior equal to about two-thirds 
the length of the cell ; posterior cross-vein about one and a half 
times its own length from the mid cross-vein. 
Halteres pale ochraceous. : 
‘  Length.—4:8 to 5 mm. 
Habitat.—Kuala Lumpur (Dr. Durham). 
Observations.—Described from two perfect 9’s. The species 
differs from the other Malay species in having yellow scaled, not 
brown scaled, veins, and also in having no thoracic ornamenta- 
tion and the more ochraceous abdomen. It comes also near 
T. aurites from Africa, but differs in having black upright 
forked scales on the head and in the whole of the antennae being 
brown, whereas in aurites the basal segments are yellow. The 
scutellar bristles also differ (vide fig. 253, Vol. II). There are 
also traces of violet scales not seen in aurites, and the whole of 


