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scales showing violet reflections, and at the sides, and also a 

 creamy patch in the middle in front ; a few curved black bristles 

 project forward over the eyes. Proboscis deep blackish brown, 

 nearly as long as the abdomen, slightly swollen apically. Palpi 

 deep blackish brown, with short black bristles, about one-eighth 

 the length of the proboscis ; antennae deep brown, with long 

 dark ver titillate hairs and grey pubescence on the internodes. 

 Eyes black (in the dead insect). 



Thorax deep shiny black, clothed with irregularly disposed, 

 bronzy -black, flat, spindle-shaped scales and large, flat, spatulate 

 ones with dull violet reflections over the roots of the wings, and 

 deep brown bristles ; there are also large, flat scales before the 

 scutellum. A few grey scales in front over the head ; prothoracic 

 lobes clothed with small, flat, brown scales above, with dull 

 silvery white ones below ; a patch of small, flat, silvery white 

 scales on each side of the mesonotum in front, scarcely showing in 

 the dorsal view; scutellum testaceous, clothed with small, flat r 

 dull brownish violet, spatulate scales and brown border-bristles ; 

 metanotum deep to bright brown according to the light, with a 

 few chaetae arising from black spots towards its apex ; pleurae 

 ochraceous, with patches of small, white, flat scales. 



Abdomen blackish, the scales showing dull violet reflections, 

 border-bristles very small and pallid ; venter entirely clothed 

 with dull white scales and a few black ones apically, and with 

 many straight black bristles at the apex. 



Legs long and thin, deep blackish brown with bronzy reflec- 

 tions, the hind femora dilated apically, the last three mid tarsals 

 and the apex of the second silvery white on one side, except just at 

 the apex of the last segment ; ungues small, equal and simple. 



Fig. 276. 

 Wing of Dendromykt, mitchellii. 9« Theobald. 



Wings with brown scales, those on the apex of the two branches 

 of the second long vein slightly broadened, some of the other 

 lateral vein-scales long and rather thin, especially on the stem of 



