Genus Hyloconops. 589 



•and shiny, with traces of median ochraceous lines in some lights, 

 and deep brown chaetae near the middle of the apex ; pleurae 

 ochreous, with a few patches of flat silvery white scales. 



Abdomen brilliant metallic violet, with apical golden patches 

 and pale golden scaled venter ; the apical patches show dorsally 

 on the penultimate and ante-penultimate segments. 



Legs metallic violet, unhanded, in some lights coppery; 

 ungues equal and simple. 



Wings with the first sub-marginal cell much longer and 

 slightly narrower than the second posterior cell, its base nearer 



Fig. 269. 

 Wing of Hyloconops longipalpis. $ . Lutz. 



the base of the wing than that of the second posterior cell, its 

 stem less than one-fourth the length of the cell ; stem of the 

 second posterior cell nearly two-thirds the length of the cell; 

 supernumerary and mid cross-veins in one line, the posterior 

 longer than the mid, a little nearer the base of the wing, the 

 third long vein passes into the basal cell as a scaled vein. 



Length, — 5*5 to 6 mm. 



$ . Head clothed with flat bright blue scales and black 

 upright forked scales, the blue shade changes to brown in certain 

 lights. Antennae densely plumose, brown, the basal segment 

 large, bright yellow with small black chaetae ; proboscis deep 

 brown with purple, violet and coppery reflections; palpi thin, 

 acuminate, about the same length as the proboscis and the same 

 colour, last two segments about equal in length, a few terminal 

 bristles. 



The patch of flat scales on the side of the thorax showing 

 mauve, coppery and dull orange colours. Legs of a brilliant 

 coppery red hue in some lights, brown in others ; fore and mid 

 ungues unequal, simple ; hind equal and simple. 



In the wings the supernumerary and mid cross-veins are not 

 in one line but meet at an angle, otherwise the same. 



