Genus Taeniorhynchus. 265 
the first hind tarsal segment in this species is brown, the apex 
only in awrites, and sometimes the base of the second is pale, but 
always brown in this Malay form. 
I think it is certainly distinct, but very closely related. 
TAENIORHYNCHUS FUSCOPENNATUS. Ni. Sp. 
(Plates XIII. and XIV.) 
Closely allied to T. Annettii, but has the yellow wing-veins 
with dusky scales. Thorax yellowish in the middle, darker at the 
sides, with yellow narrow-curved scales ; abdomen variable, mostly 
dark basally, sometimes all dark scaled, at others with yellow 
scales, especially apically ; proboscis yellow, with black apex ; 
legs yellow, the femora with many dusky scales, especially in the 
mid pair, apex of tibiae, metatarsi and first two tarsi black, 
last two all black in both fore and mid legs, in the hind legs 
the black banding.is more distinct and the tibiae have a 
median black ring. Wings with all the veins with dusky 
brown scales. 
@. Head deep brown in front and above, honey-yellow 
behind, with narrow-curved creamy scales, forming a more or less 
distinct line around the eyes, numerous black upright forked 
scales and black bristles projecting forwards ; palpi densely 
clothed with yellow scales, a few black ones at the base and apex, 
and with black bristles; proboscis yellow, with a few black 
scales at the base and black at the apex ; antennae deep brown, 
basal joint dark on the inside, pale outside, with black bristles 
projecting inwards, three succeeding basal segments deep 
ochraceous with traces of a few black scales. 
Thorax in some specimens honey-yellow in the middle, dark 
at the sides, in others all dark brown, covered with narrow 
curved golden scales; scutellum pale ochraceous, with narrow 
curved pale golden scales and with six brown border-bristles ; 
metanotum deep brown. 
Abdomen ochraceous, variable, with dusky scales with long 
brown border-bristles or with yellow scales variously disposed, 
mostly on the apical segments and apices and middle of the 
segments. Fore femora ochraceous, with a few scattered black 
scales, especially towards the apex ; tibiae similar, with black 
apex, also the metatarsi and first two tarsals, the apical bands 
pronounced, last two tarsi dark, ungues equal and simple ; 
femora of the mid legs mostly dark scaled, also the tibiae, 
