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segments with white-scaled lateral patches. Legs long, black, 

 banded white, including the femora and tibiae, the contrast of 

 colouration being much more marked than in P. annulifera, 

 though the mid legs are less obviously ornamented. In these 

 and in the hind legs the first tarsal joints have a median as well 

 as a basal ring and the next two joints have also basal white 

 rings, while in the fore only the upper two or three joints have 

 distinguishable basal bands. 



$ . — Head blackish, with long black forked scales, with some 

 scattered white ones, and with ten long bristles projecting in front ; 

 eyes brilliant purple and pale bronze towards the middle ; antennae with 

 basal joint dark, base of first to fourth joints banded white, remainder 

 brownish-piu'ple ; palpi yellowish-brown, thickly clothed with dark scales 

 near the apex and white ones at the extx'eme tip ; proboscis with dusky 

 purple scales at the base, then a yellow band, and then more dusky 

 scales, whilst the tip is yellow scaled and has also some golden hairs. 

 It differs from C. annulifera m all the innermost rank of fringe scales 

 being black. Length. — 3*8 to 4'5 mm. ( J ). 



Habitat. — Selangor, Straits Settlements (very common) ; Singapore, 

 Batavia. Time of capture. — At Selangor, in September. 



8. PANOPLITES AFRICANUS, Theobald (Monog. II, p. 187). 

 Plate xiii, fig. 6, Palpi and proboscis of female. 



Wings unspotted, very dark, showing but little brindling, 

 there being but few pale scales, the short inner rank of fringe 

 scales being also all black. Proboscis with a median broad and 

 narrow apical yellow bands. Thorax dark brown, ornamented 

 with narrow golden-brown and silvery scales, the silvery ones 

 forming more or less two spots on the mesonotum and occurring 

 on each side of the posterior half of the thorax. Abdomen dark 

 brown, the basal segments with basal median yellow spots, the 

 apical segments with yellow apical bands ; there are also white 

 apical lateral spots ; venter pale, with creamy scales, apex often 

 mostly white scaled. Legs dark brown, banded and mottled 

 with white. The femora and tibiae showing about five or six 

 white spots each. The hind tarsal joints are all usually white 

 banded and the first joints have an additional median ring in all 

 three pairs of legs, though the last two joints are all black in the 

 fore and mid legs. 



$ . — Head brown, with narrow curved grey scales and flat white ones 

 at the sides, a white border romad the eyes and numerous long upright 

 forked dark brown scales ; proboscis dark brown to almost black, with a 

 broad median yellow band and a yellow band at the apex : palpi covered 

 with dark brown scales, apex white scaled, and there is also a band 



