190 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 
of apical segment, which has the tip yellowish, leaving only 
the middle third black. First and second segments approxi- 
mately equal in length, apical short, slightly incurved, so that 
its tip tonches the proboscis. 
Thorax: shining black, clothed with flat metallic brassy 
scales, with a patch of brilliant scales at base of wings, blue 
before and green behind. There are some short black bristles 
over base of wings also. Behind the root of the wing is a 
prescutellar tuft of bright metallic yellow hairs, arising 
from the patch of coloured seales. Prothoracic lobes clothed 
with purple and greenish scales, bearing on anterior margin 
some long golden brown hairs. Scutellum very dark brown, 
with one or two flat brassy green scales on mid-lobe, and at 
tip of each side lobe. Border bristles brown ; pleure black 
with dense flat snowy white scales. 
Abdomen : apically somewhat truncate, but not expanding. 
Dark brown mottled with paler yellow-brown scales, which 
form a broad dorsal band at junction of first and second 
segments. With the exception of this yellow band, the 
whole dorsal surface has metallic blue and purple reflections. 
Laterally the apical margin of the first with a large, and basal 
margin of the fourth, fifth, and sixth segments with a small, 
patch of creamy-white scales. Venter creamy-yellow, apex 
black, : 
Legs : coxa, trochanter, and most of femur creamy-yellow 
with purple scales exteriorly on apical two-thirds of fore 
femur, a line of such throughout extoriorly on mid-femur, and 
on apical one-third of hind femur ; tibiz and tarsi black with 
a mottling of yellowish scales. Tibize with purple reflections. 
Wings: small with dark brown scales, with a little purple 
reflection showing at the base of the first longitudinal vein. 
First, sub-marginal cell minute ; second, posterior cell barely 
one-third as long as its stem. A line of scales appears to 
carry the third longitudinal vein inward to a point well interior 
of the fork of the fifth vein. The basal erect portion of the 
third vein about three times its own length nearer the apex of 
the wing than the anterior cross-vein, which is small, in the 
type about its own length beyond the posterior cross-vein, in 
another specimen the posterior cross-vein is just beyond the 
