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long and slender with peculiar shaped creamy lateral spots and golden spot 
more basally. Legs unbanded. 
Female Head .—Compressed laterally and square in shape, upper surfao 
clad with dark purple-black scales sometimes shewing a short line behind o 
creamy scales, and laterally a creamy band followed by a black banc 
succeeded by creamy scales; there is a very narrow creamy margin to thi 
eyes. The scales on the head are very large flat and square ended. The 
colour varies with the light being black or purple or bronze. There are z 
few creamy upright scales behind on the nape. Vertical bristles pale golden 
Basal joint of antenna yellowish-brown with dark purple shading on the 
inner face. The inner half of this joint is much deeper from base to ape? 
than the outer half and is densely scaled with small dark flat scales, seconc 
joint pale yellow at the base, dark purple at the apex, with some flat scale* 
inserted on the basal half, remaining joints dark purple with white dowi 
and dark verticillate hairs. Palpi rather more than half the length of th< 
proboscis, four-jointed entirely clad with purple-bronze scales. Proboscis 
about two-thirds the length of the abdomen thick and clad with dark purple 
scales. 
7 hovax .—Prothoracic lobes dark purple entirely covered with larg< 
creamy flat scales, there is also a row of long dark purple-brown bristle; 
which curve outwards and backwards. The mesonotum arches forward; 
over the head in a manner very characteristic of the members of this genus 
it is dark purple in colour clad round the margin in front of the wings witl 
a broad band of large spatulate creamy scales which on the shoulders swel 
into round patches, the remainder is covered with long narrow bronz) 
scales which in the centre are hair-like but are broader at the sides and ir 
front of the scutellum where the scales become broad and spatulate 
Scutellum densely clad with large spatulate scales of a purple-brown colour 
with a line of creamy-yellow scales in the centre of the central lobe, bristles 
light-brown. At the bases of the wings on the mesonotum are dense tufts 
of what might be mistaken for blunt-ended bristles but under a fairly higl 
power are seen to be scales with notched ends very much like uprigh 
forked scales of great length. Pleurae dark purple-brown with patches o 
white flat scales. Wings brown with dark brown scales with purple 
reflections ; the median scales on the first fork cell and its stem consist of ; 
double row of rather oblique-ended scales about twice as long as they are 
broad, elsewhere they are not so large; the lateral scales are long linea: 
scales; first fork cell longer and narrower than the second, its base neare 1 
the wing base, its stem a trifle more than half the length of the cell 
posterior cross-vein about one and a half times its own length from median 
Coxae dark brown thickly clad with snowy-white flat scales. Sides anc 
venter of hind femora and venter of fore and mid silvery, the remainder o 
all legs clad with dark purple-brown scales. On the under surface of th< 
hind tibia at the apex and the adjoining portion of the metatarsus is a fringe 
of long scales golden-brown in colour while at the extreme apex of the tibk 
is a tuft of golden spines; there are golden spines along the whole length o 
the tibia placed in rows; ungues equal and uni-serrate on fore and mid legs. 
Abdomen .—Clad above with rich purple-brown scales. Laterally then 
are curved snowy-white bands directed upwards and backwards from th< 
