508 A Monograph of Cidicidae. 



a whorl of many much-branched bristles. The ends of the 

 antennae are beset with four stiff black spines. The antennae 

 are black at the bases and on the distal thirds from the offsets." 



Melanoconion ornatus. Theobald (1905). 



Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung. III., p. 100 (1905). 



Head black, with some median yellowish scales ; palpi and 

 proboscis black. Thorax deep rich brown, ornamented with two 

 parallel pale scaled lines behind, pale golden scales at the sides, 

 and pale scales in front and on the scutellum. Abdomen deep 

 brown with pale basal lateral spots, venter densely creamy-scaled. 

 Legs bronzy-brown, unhanded . 



9 . Head deep brown with small dusky narrow-curved scales, - 

 some dull yellowish ones in the middle and small dusky-grey flat 

 ones at the sides, a few dusky and dull ochreous upright forked 

 ones ; palpi and proboscis black ; antennae deep brown ; some 

 long black bristles on the palpi and short ones on the proboscis. 



Thorax deep chestnut-brown with very small narrow -curved 

 scales, two pale scaled lines on the posterior half running down 

 to the scutellum, golden scales at the sides in front of the wings 

 and extending to the head and some golden scales in front ; 

 scutellum brown with pale creamy narrow-curved scales ; meta- 

 notum deep brown ; pleurae brown with yellowish tinge. 



Abdomen deep brown with basal creamy lateral spots which 

 on some of the segments nearly meet to form indistinct basal 

 bands ; border-bristles pale golden in some lights, brown in 

 others ; venter covered with creamy scales. 



Legs thin, .deep brown, the coxae and bases and femora 

 beneath deep ochreous ; ungues small, equal and simple. 



Wings with brown scales, fork-cells short, the first sub- 



Fig. 231. 

 Denuded wing of M elanoconion ornatus. 9- Theobald. 



marginal with dense thick scales, also the first longitudinal and 

 to some extent the third long vein ; first sub-marginal cell longer 



