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is present on the nape ; orbital and vertical bristles light brown. Basal 
joint of antenna ferruginous with a tuft of spatulate scales on the inner 
face dark brown above creamy below, which scales project well beyond the 
joint forming a distinct peak, second joint pale yellowish-brown at the base, 
dusky beyond, scaled on its inner face, remaining joints dusky except where 
the verticils are inserted where they are colourless, clad with white down 
and dark brown verticillate hairs. Clypeus blue-black. Palpi about one-fifth 
the length of the proboscis clad with rich brown scales purple in some 
lights, joints indeterminate. Proboscis purple scaled of moderate length 
and thickness with three or four long bristles inserted on the under part of 
the base and forming a sort of band. 
Thorax .—Prothoracic lobes clad with scales which are flat spatulate 
creamy-yellow scales on the antero-external half and dark brown narrow- 
curved on the posterior half above and silvery spatulate below. Mesonotum 
purple-brown, running round the margin of the portion in front of the wings 
is a line of creamy-yellow very broad curved scales which over the shoul¬ 
ders bends inwards ; passing down on either side of the centre in front is a I 
narrow line of golden-brown scales which ends opposite a line joining the 
wing bases, and at this a single central line of golden scales starts and 1 
runs backwards to the centre of the base of the scutellum while from each 
lateral lobe a golden-brown line runs forwards and about half way across 
curves abruptly outwards and joins the marginal line just where it bends 
in ; the rest of the mesonotum is clad with rich metallic-bronze narrow- 
curved scales. Scutellum yellowish-brown clad with large spatulate scales 
with square ends of a rich purple-brown colour ; in the centre of the central 
lobe is a line of creamy-yellow scales continuous with the central line on 
the mesonotum. Pleurae brown with dark purple-brown spots clad with 
large creamy flat scales and lines of golden bristles. Wings brown with 
dark brown scales, the median long and elliptical, the lateral on branches 
of first fork cell, larger than scales elsewhere being elliptical at the base 
and clavate at the apex, those on veins posterior to this broadly linear; fork 
cells of moderate length, first narrower, but little longer than second, its 
base nearer wing apex, its stem a trifle shorter than the cell; third long vein 
carried unsealed beyond the transverse veins almost to the base of the 
wing; posterior transverse vein about as long as the median and distant 
rather more than its own length from it. Coxae brown with creamy flat 
scales and golden bristles; under sides of femora creamy scaled the hind 
femora with creamy scales all round except for a narrow line of dark scales 
abo\e, the remainder of all the legs with rich dark bronze-purple scales; 
hind tibiae with rows of long golden spines; fore and mid ungues equal 
and uniserrate hind equal and simple. 
Abdomen with rich purple-brown or bronze scales above. Laterally 
there are large triangular creamy spots the apex of the triangle looking 
obliquely upwards and backwards. The base of the triangle is nearer the 
base of segment. The venter of each segment has a broad band of creamy 
scales which occupies the whole of the segment except a narrow apical 
band of dark purple-brown scales. On the second segment there are only 
white scales and on the seventh the white scales are confined to the centre 
the apex and base being dark scaled. 
