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some grey scales ; chaetae black ; metanotum bright chestnut 

 brown. 



Abdomen with basal segment green in the middle, violet on 

 each side with a creamy lateral spot, remaining segments brilliant 

 violet purple, in some lights some of the scales have a brilliant 

 coppery red hue scattered amongst the purple-violet ones and 

 collected more densely on the apices of some segments, basal 

 triangular creamy-white lateral patches, the sixth segment with 

 a lateral apical tuft of creamy- white hairs, the seventh and 

 eighth with bronzy -black tufts, terminal chaetae golden brown ; 

 venter silvery-white with a median narrow purple line. 



Legs with metallic violet and coppery hues, the latter 

 especially on the tarsi ; under side of femora creamy-white to 

 golden yellow ; on the mid legs the second tarsal is creamy-white 

 scaled to golden yellow ; ungues equal and simple. 



Wings with the first fork-cell very small, its stem three and 



Fig. 30. 

 Wing of Megarhinm solstitialis ( 9 ). Lute. 



a half times as long as the cell, its base nearer the apex of the 

 wing than that of the larger broader second posterior cell, whose 

 stem is not much more than twice as long as the length of 

 the cell ; supernumerary cross-vein nearly four times its own 

 length nearer the apex than the mid; the mid close to the very 

 long, backwardly-directed posterior cross- vein ; scales on the 

 outer border with violet and bronze reflections. 



$ . Head much as in the 9 ^ ut rather darker scaled ; 

 antennae with deep brown plume-hairs and dense scales on the 

 second and many following segments ; palpi metallic violet above 

 with mauve joints, beneath is a golden scaled area on the 

 penultimate and antepenultimate segments. Apical segment 

 acuminate, not quite twice as long as the penultimate, the 

 antepenultimate not quite as long as the apical one. 



Thorax much as in the female. 



