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and laterally to the margin of the flat lateral scales. The colour of the seal, 
along the orbital margins is metallic-gold but the rest of the scales ai 
darker approaching rather the colour known as old gold. Running dow 
the centre is a bare line the scales on either side looking outward 
\ ertical and orbital bristles golden-yellow. Basal joint of antenna golder 
brown with a few golden-yellow scales on its inner face, second joint ding 
yellow, remaining joints dusky-brown, pale at the insertion of the vertici 
covered with silky white pubescence; verticillate hairs brown. Clyper 
golden-brown. Palpi about one-third the length of the proboscis, fou 
possibly five-jointed; second apparent joint is large about one-fifth tots 
length of palpus, last joint is small and round like a ball. The scales ar 
dark yellow with some black scales at the base above. The last joint an. 
the apical third of the penultimate joint are entirely black scaled. Th 
black scaled portion of what I call penultimate joint is 1 believe a separat 
joint but with the scales it is impossible to assert this positively. Probosci 
ong and densely scaled with dark yellow scales with numerous black scale 
scattered irregularly over it; the extreme apex at the base of the labellae l 
Thorax .—-Prothoracic lobes large, prominent, dark brown with a hoar] 
omentum, clad externally with numerous long narrow-curved golden 
yellow scales, and above and anteriorly with numerous dark blackish-browr 
bristles. Mesonotum very dark brown, in front and on the shoulders there 
are smaU patches of golden-yellow narrow curved scales, the rest is clac 
with dark purple scales which in some lights appear dark grey or ever 
take a brown tinge from the mesonotum. The alar bristles are long anc 
numerous and of a similar colour to the scales. In the centre are one or 
wo mgy yellow bristles. Scutellum dark brown clad with numerous 
narrow-curved golden-yellow scales. Bristles golden arranged in two rows 
apparently six short anterior bristles and nine posterior longer and arranged 
m sets o three. Pleura dark blackish-browm with a few scales, patches and 
rows of blackish-brown bristles. The mesothoracic stigma stands out in a 
very unusual way and seems exceptionally large. Wings longer than abdomen 
ot a golden colour and with distinct patches of dark browm pigment as 
follows: between the subcostal and first long vein at a point opposite the 
junction of basal and middle thirds of the wing, another spot where the second 
long vein comes off from the first, and large patches in the region of the cross 
veins. Scales on the costa small dark brown with a few golden ones. First 
long vein ends almost at the apex of wing and is clad with three rows of small 
br T Vn r llg V- late median scales in its whole length and on the terminal 
tilth with a few' linear lateral scales, stem of second vein clad with double row 
of ligulate pale yellow median scales, its branches with long ligulate dark 
brown lateral scales, third vein with dark brown and a few yellow very small 
median scales and long ligulate lateral scales at its apex, rest of the veins 
with median scales only, except apex of upper branch of fourth; first fork 
cell longer and narrower than second about as long as its stem its base nearer 1 
wing apex than the base of the second, supernumerary cross vein as long as 
the median which lies slightly nearer the base of the wing; posterior cross ■ 
vem less than half its own length distant from the median and lying 
nearer the apex of the wing, fringe scales short. Coxae dark blackish 
brown; front coxae flattened from side to side and with a deep notch in 
