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nder a low power hand lens with plenty of light the predominant colour 
a bright metallic-green like a green bottle fly with margins of bronze and 
Dple-greens mixed. After death this colour changes considerably, the 
reater part of the mesonotum appearing of a rich bronze-green while the 
iaro-ins shew peacock-blue with rose tints on the shoulders and over the 
ings and the margin between shewing shades of green and blue mixed; 
lesonotal bristles, black. Scutellum, thickly clad with large spatulate 
:ales with truncated ends which appear golden or bronze-green according 
) the light, now one colour predominating, now the other, now the two 
flours intermingling ; bristles, black. Pleurae black, entirely covered with 
lver-white flat scales. Wings, clad with scales which shew bronze-green 
nd purple tints ; subcostal and first vein with double row of large spatulate 
ledian scales and a few lateral on their anterior edges; third vein scaled for 
Dme distance on the basal side of the median transverse ; supernumerary 
ross vein about five times its own length from the median transverse 
nd on its apical side, posterior transverse shews a double curve and is 
istant from the median (being placed to the apical side of that vein) by 
bout half its own length. Coxae, brownish-black clad with silvery-white 
at scales; fore femora, clad with purple-bronze scales for a short distance 
t the base then comes a broad band occupying nearly half the total length 
f the femora of scales which vary from pale golden to creamy-white, with a 
atch of peacock-blue towards the apex of this band on the upper surface. 
,'hese light scales continue further along the femora on the ventral surface 
han they do on the dorsal; remainder of femora, purple-bronze. The mid 
3 mora are clad with purple-bronze scales with peacock-blue tints except on 
he ventral surface which is clad with pale golden scales, the hind femora 
re clad with pale golden scales except for a small ring of purple scales at 
he base and on the apical third of the dorsal surface; mid and hind femora 
hew a ring of creamy-yellow scales at the extreme apex: all the femora 
iave three rows of short black spines. Fore tibiae and tarsi are clad with 
ose-purple scales and the only sign of banding on the tibia is about three 
rilite scales situated in the centre of the ventral surface; mid and hind 
ibiae shew a band in their centre which is pale golden or creamy-yellow or 
ilvery-white according to the light and is broader on the mid tibiae; the 
>asal half of the mid metatarsus with white scales except just at the base, 
he white band on the hind metatarsus is about its own breadth from the 
>ase, the remainder of each metatarsus is purple scaled; the first tarsal joint 
n mid and hind legs also shews a white band close to the base; ungues 
qual and simple. 
Abdomen .—First segment dorsally clad with brilliant greenish-blue 
cales. In some lights these scales are bright apple-green, in others there is 
nore of blue in them; the sides of the segment are clad with silvery-white 
cales. The second and third segments have narrow basal bands of apple- 
;reen scales, the rest of the dorsum being clad with brilliant coppery- 
)ronze scales. At each side of each of the two segments is a triangular 
)atch with its apex towards the apex of the segment; this patch is made up 
)f two distinct patches, the basal patch is apple-green, the apical and lower 
oatch is silvery-white. The fourth segment has no basal band and the lateral 
;pot is reduced to a few apple-green scales at the base and a very few white 
ones at the apex, the fifth and sixth segments shew large white lateral 
patches and long silky white hairs forming the commencement of the 
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