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Abdomen with the first segment scaled creamy yellow laterally, rose- 

 purple centrally ; the other segments brilliant rose-purple, with 

 creamy yellow banding expanding laterally into triangular patches ; 

 venter scaled with metallic golden scales, except segment four, which 

 has a patch of dark purple scales. 



" S' ■ Head black, with a deep furrow in the centre ; there is a 

 large central patch of flat scales of a bronze green or golden green 

 colour ; the scales along the orbital margins are peacock blue, laterally 

 there is a patch of scales peacock blue or rose-purple according to the 

 light in which they are seen. Antennae with the basal joint black, 

 nude; remaining joints creamy, growing darker towards the apex; 

 the second joint scaled with spatulate and elongated scales of a dark 

 brown colour; a few scales show metallic colouring. There are 

 numerous dark brown hairs on the joints ; the verticillate hairs dark 

 brown, almost black, neither very dense nor very long. The antennas 

 are not nearly so marked a feature as they are in a Meijarldnus. 

 Palpi, 3-jointed ; first joint shows a slight swelling at the base, and 

 there is a thinning of the chitin which looks like a joint but is not ; 

 there is also a second thinning, and the chitin is folded in more basally ; 

 the whole joint is very long. The second joint is about half the length 

 of first ; the third is long and pointed, almost as long as the first 

 joint, which is almost entirely golden scaled except on its upper 

 surface near its base, where there is a patch of rose-purple scales and 

 a band of the same about its middle and a few dark scales dorsally at 

 the apex ; the second joint golden scaled beneath and also the sides, 

 except apically ; the upper surface is purple scaled ; the third joint is 

 entirely purple scaled. Proboscis scaled with purple scales to the 

 angle, then green scaled. The markings of both proboscis and palpi 

 vary. In one specimen I have the first joint of the palpus is entirely 

 gold scaled save for a ring of purple scales on the middle and apex. 

 The thorax is similar to the female. Legs with the coxte and under 

 sides of femora golden scaled. The upper surfaces of the femora and 

 the rest of all the legs are clad with purple scales ; a few pale scales 

 are inserted at the apices of the femora ; fore and mid ungues 

 unequal, the larger uniserrate. Abdomen scaled as in the female. 

 No caudal tuft. A few rather long golden hairs inserted on the two 

 last segments." — (Leicester). Length 10 mm., male and female. 



Habitat. — Kuala Lumpur. 



Observations. — This is a very distinct species. The most 

 striking features are the honey yellow and purple male palpi 

 and the single creamy band on the mid legs of the female. 

 Had this species been described from the dried types sent me by 

 Dr. Leicester, I should have described the abdomen as un- 

 handed, for in the female it is evidently shrunken, and no 

 trace of the bands seen in the fresh specimen can now be 

 noticed.— (F. V. T.) 



(To be continued.) 



