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Male Head .—Clad with yellowish-green and light bronze-green scales 
/ith an edging along the orbital margin of scales, which under a hand lens are 
ose-pink and on the vertex behind these are peacock-blue scales succeeded by 
he ^reen, and a few rows of very narrow upright forked scales, dark brown 
n colour, behind ; vertical and orbital bristles, dark brown, almost black. 
3asal joint of antenna, black with silvery-grey tomentum without scales, 
econd joint, dusky brown, clad with metallic scales not very many and only on 
he inner face, the joint being about times as long as the succeeding joints 
xcept the last two, remaining joints whitey-brown below the insertion of 
he verticils and dark brown above; verticillate hairs, purple-brown, 
^lypeus black with silvery-grey tomentum. Palpi four-jointed, there may be 
l small basal joint which would make them five-jointed, but this can only be 
letermined by dissection, so I speak of the joints as four, meaning the e\ ident 
oints that can be seen without dissection. First joint clad with metallic-purple 
scales on its basal two-third and silvery-white on the apical third, second 
oint nearly twice as long as the first, clad with dark purple scales, except 
)n the upper surface of the apical two-thirds where the scales are lighter and 
nore of a dark rose-pink, remaining joints, dark purple. 
Thorax .—Prothoracic lobes entirely covered with scales which shew 
leacock-blue, azure-blue, and in some lights, rose and violet tints are 
mingled with the blue. Mesonotum, clad on the anterior margin abo\e the 
neck with scales which are peacock-blue, behind these, above the 
prothoracic lobes, there is a band of golden-green scales and below these 
Dehind the prothoracic lobe, but still on the mesonotum and not on the 
pleura is a patch of silvery scales ; the band of golden-green scales merges 
over the wing into peacock-blue; the rest of the mesonotum is densely clad 
with dark bronze-green scales and in some lights there is an ill-defined blue 
central band. Scutellar scales are bronze-green in the central lobe and a 
mixture of golden-green and peacock-blue on the lateral lobes. Pleura, black 
with silvery scales. Wings with bronze and golden-green scales , third long 
vein scaled for a considerable distance on the basal side of the tians\erse 
veins ; supernumerary and median cross veins of about equal length and 
the median lies to the basal side of the supernumerary and distant about five 
times its own length from it; the commencement of the posterior cross vein 
is just to the apical side of the median. Coxae, blackish-brown, with silvery 
scales; femora clad with metallic-purple scales above and laterally, and 
creamy-yellow scales below. The creamy scales are only on the basal two-third 
of the fore femora, but on the hind femora they spread on to the sides, and 
above the scales are more peacock-blue than purple. All these scales shew 
blue tints and even greenish-yellow as the position of the insect is changed, 
but violet and purple are the predominant colour on the fore and mid legs, 
while peacock-blue is the predominant colour on the hind femora. 
Remainder of all legs clad with metallic-purple scales. A ring of silvery 
or pale blue scales at the apices of the femora. In the centre of the hind 
tibia is a band of silvery scales beneath and at the sides, but not on the 
outer surface. 
Abdomen .—First segment clad with rich golden-green and 
yellowish-green scales with silvery patches below, second segment, rich 
coppery-bronze with pale green lateral spots, remaining segments, dark 
purple-bronze with traces of blue lateral spots, but owing to retraction in 
