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front of the scutellum ; anterior chaetae' brown, posterior golden 

 brown ; scutellum deep brown with flat creamy and dull scales 

 on the mid lobe with a few pale narrow-curved ones beneath, 

 narrow-curved creamy scales on the lateral lobes ; four posterior 

 border-bristles to the mid lobe ; metanotum deep brown ; pleurae 

 nearly nude, a broad shiny bluish-grey area extending all the 

 way along to the front of the mesonotum, then a deep brown line 

 beneath, sharply contrasting with the pale ochreous coxae ; the 

 shiny pale area seems to be minutely pitted all over. 



Abdomen deep brown with basal creamy white bands and 

 large prominent lateral snowy-white spots, the penultimate one 

 the largest and showing iridescent pale mauve reflections, the 

 segments are all constricted basally, expanded apically below, and 

 the scales on the apical areas are outstanding, giving a very 

 characteristic appearance such as is seen in Haemagogus ; posterior 

 border-bristles of dorsum pale, of the venter longer and darker ; 

 there is no pale basal band to the first, second and last segments ; 

 the abdomen is also constricted basally and expanded towards 

 the apex. 



Legs brown with bronzy reflections, the fore and hind legs 

 show faint traces of pale tarsal banding, the mid femora are 

 swollen, have two prominent round pale spots and the venter of 

 all the femora are pale ; coxae pale ochreous ; fore and mid 

 ungues slightly unequal in length, the larger fore ungues with a 

 very large tooth, the others simple, the hind equal, rather 

 straight. 



Wing scales broad and dense, especially on the fork-cells, 

 the first sub-marginal much longer and a little narrower than 

 the second posterior cell, its base much nearer the base of 



Fig. 55. 

 Wing of Carrollia irridescens. <f • Lutz. 



the wing, its stem rather less than one-fourth the length of the 

 cell ; stem of the second posterior nearly as long as the cell ; 

 posterior cross-vein much longer than the mid, nearly twice its 



