144 A Monograph of Cidicidae. 



with rose-purple scales, basal banding of peacock-blue scales. 

 Venter bright golden, except for a patch of dark scales on the 

 fourth segment ; the last segment fringed with pale golden hairs ; 

 no caudal tuft. 



Length. — 10 mm. 



£ . Head with a deep depression in the middle line ; the 

 scaling is much as in the ? . Antennae banded brown and 

 white ; plumes black ; basal segment black ; second segment 

 scaled with numerous golden scales, the two last segments dark 

 and elongated. Palpi three-jointed, the first segment with a 

 swollen base, having the appearance of a joint constricted in the 

 middle ; the second scaled with golden scales except at the apex, 

 where there is a narrow band of purple-blue scales ; in the middle 

 there is also a band of purple scales and towards the base there 

 are on the upper surface purple scales. Proboscis purple-scaled, 

 green-scaled at the angle. Thorax as in the 9 • Legs with the 

 coxae and under sides of the femora gold-scaled ; knee spots 

 peacock blue or creamy in some lights ; the remaining parts of 

 legs purple scaled ; no banding. Ungues, fore and mid unequal, 

 the larger uniserrate. Abdomen as in the J . 



Length. — 10 mm. 



Habitat. — Kuala Lumpur, Federated Malay States. 



Observations. — Described from two perfect specimens collected 

 by Dr. Leicester. 



The beautifully adorned abdomen, metallic-green thorax, 

 with azure root spots to the wings and the last two white hind 

 tarsals of the female are very characteristic. 



Toxorhynchites metallicus. Leicester (1904). 

 The Entomologist, Vol. XXXVII., p. 37 (1904). 



Thorax brilliant metallic green ; abdomen deep rose purple, 

 with basal creamy yellow bands ; no caudal tuft. Legs in the 

 male unhanded, in the female the micl legs have a basal creamy- 

 white band ; fore and mid unbanded. Male palpi with the 

 second and third segments golden yellow. 



9 . Head black ; a narrow band of creamy-yellow scales 

 along the orbital margin, which laterally broadens into a distinct 

 patch ; the rest of the upper surface of the head is covered with 

 broad flat scales which vary in colour. If looked at from behind, 

 the centre patch looks bronze-green and the scales at the sides 

 blue-green. (In one specimen the whole patch is a deep rich 



