Genus Aporoculex. ;>17 



Thorax deep brown with faint golden ornamentation. Abdomen 

 brown with basal pale bands to some of the segments. Legs 

 with spotted femora and tibiae, and narrow pale bands involving 

 both sides of the joints. Wings with large median vein-scales. 



9 . Head deep brown with narrow-curved dull golden-bi -own 

 scales which form a brighter golden median area, dusky upright 

 forked scales, which show distinct violet reflections, and which 

 are much expanded apically, and dull creamy and brown flat 

 lateral scales ; clypeus reddish-brown ; palpi dark scaled with a 

 few pale scales especially at the apex, and pale hued at the joints ; 

 antennae brown with pale internodes, basal segment dark on the 

 inner side, bright testaceous on the outer, with a few small 

 flattened yellow spindle-shaped scales ; proboscis deep brown 

 with a median creamy band. 



Thorax black with narrow-curved deep bronzy scales and 

 SOB16 rather irregular and indistinct patches of golden narrow- 

 curved scales giving a somewhat ornamented mottled appearance, 

 chaetae deep black, the golden scales form an indistinct line 

 across the mesonotum just past the middle, and two spots just 

 before the scutellum ; the bare space with bronzy minute scales ; 

 prothoracic lobes prominent with black and a few golden chaetae, 

 and with a few narrow-curved dull golden scales ; scutellum black 

 with narrow-curved bronzy scales on the base, and somewhat 

 larger golden ones along the border \ border-bristles black, the 

 mid lobe with three large ones on each side, and two smaller 

 median ones ; metanotum dark brown ; pleurae brown with some 

 flat creamy scales. 



Abdomen deep brown with a yellow band on the fourth to 

 seventh segments, rather deeply constricted in the middle ; the 

 basal segment with two black patches of scales and brown 

 bristles, the second with a creamy median triangular spot and 

 traces of small pale basal scales* scarcely forming a band, the 

 third with a few pale basal scales, scarcely noticeable, and there 

 are pale scales at the sides ; border-bristles pale. 



Legs deep brown, femora and tibiae with pale spots, the 

 joints with narrow pale bands involving to some extent both sides 

 of the joints, but mostly basal ; ungues equal and simple ; femora 

 and tibiae with short, dark spines. 



Wings with the first sub-marginal cell much longer and 

 narrower than the second posterior cell, its base slightly nearer the 

 base of the wing, its stem less than one-third the length of the 

 cell ; stem of the second posterior cell about two-thirds the length 



