266 A Monograph of Culveidae. 
metatarsi and tarsi as in the fore legs; hind legs with a broad 
median band as well as the apical one on the tibiae, first tarsal 
broadly banded black at the apex (apical joints missing in all 
specimens). 
Wings with the veins yellow, scales nearly all dusky brown 
to deep brown, fringe dark brown ; border-scales yellow. 

Fig. 141. 
Wing of Taeniorhynchus fuscopennatus. Q. Nn. sp. 
Fork-cells long, the first sub-marginal considerably longer. 
and a little narrower than the second posterior cell, its stem a 
little more than one-third of its length, its base slightly nearer 
the base of the wing; stem of the second posterior about half 
the length of the cell ; posterior cross-vein about two and a half 
times its own length from the mid cross-vein. | 
Halteres ochraceous. 
Length.—5°5 mm. 
3g. Palpi orange-yellow, apex black, also the apex of the 
two following joints, hair-tufts black and orange, basal joint 
orange ; antennae with golden plumes, brown at their apices ; 
proboscis orange, with black apex. 
. Thorax as in 9; pleurae with patches of silvery-white scales. 
Abdomen orange-yellow, with narrow apical purple bands ; 
with dense golden-yellow hairs; genitalia (fig. 142) with the 
claspers with a pointed tooth. 
Legs orange-yellow, apex of fore tibiae with a small black 
band ; fore metatarsi with broad apical black band, tarsi mostly 
black, the base of the first dull orange; mid legs the same, but 
the femora and tibiae with scattered black scales ; hind legs also 
with the femora with scattered black scales, the tibiae with a 
narrow black median and apical band ; metatarsi with a broad 
black apical band, also the first tarsal, but the others bronzy- 
black all over; ungues of the fore legs unequal, the larger 
