Female Head. —Black; a tuft of long linear golden scales on the vertex 
and projecting forwards, behind this a round area covered with narrow- 
curved golden scales and golden upright forked scales. This patch extends 
back to the occipital foramen but laterally is sharply defined by a patch 
of broad flat black scales on either side. On the orbital margin in the 
midst of these black scales there is a very small spot of golden scales. 
Orbital bristles dark brown. 
Basal joint of antenna brown looks black when dry, naked, second joint 
brown at the base with a very few small black scales inserted on it, black 
apically, remaining joints black with silvery-white tomentum. Verticillate 
hairs black with pale tips. Clypeus dark brown and nude. Palpi about 
one-fifth the length of the proboscis scaled with dark brown scales almost 
black under a 2 / 3 . Proboscis scaled as the palpi. 
Thorax .—Prothoracic lobes dark brown under a hand lens, under a 2/3 
or when dry they look black, beset with numerous dark brown bristles but 
without scales. Thorax chestnut-brown or purplish-brown varying with the 
amount of light; on either side from above the root of the wing a broad 
band of narrow scales of the colour known as old-gold runs forwards to the 
anterior margin converging until they almost meet and at this point they 
are united by a small patch of similar scales. The space between these 
lines is clad with bronzy scales which have a purple hue in some lights and 
two more or less perfect lines of golden scales traverse the length of the 
mesonotum on either side of the middle line. In some specimens these 
lines are only seen on the posterior half in front of the scutellum. Alar 
and praescutellar bristles golden. Scutellum similar in colour to thorax 
clad thinly with golden narrow-curved scales. Pleurae dark brown under 
a hand lens, under a 2/3 unless the light is good, black, inserted on each 
are several tufts of dark brown bristles and five patches of scales each patch 
consisting of only about four or five scales ; two of the patches are narrow- 
curved scales and dark gold in colour two are small spatulate-shaped scales, 
and one over the middle coxa consists of elongated scales with truncated 
ends. Wings, except the base of the first long vein and the greater part 
of the fifth vein, which are golden scaled, clad with dark brown scales of 
the culex type, the lateral being bluntly lanceolate, or linear, the 
median narrow spatulate ; first fork cell longer and a little narrower than 
second, their bases about on a level, stem of first cell about half as long as 
the cell; supernumerary and median veins almost in a line, posterior cross 
vein about its own length from median. Coxae dark with dark purple- 
brown scales and bristles; femora and tibiae covered with dark brown 
scales mingled with which are numerous golden scales giving the thighs 
a mottled appearance ; the metatarsus and tarsus scaled dark purple-brown 
though the scales are almost coppery-bronze in some lights ; fore and mid 
ungues equal and uni-serrate. 
Abdomen .—Dorsally clad with scales which are now dark brown now 
rich purple according as the position to the light is changed. In some 
specimens the purple is very evident. At the base of each segment is a 
square patch of creamy scales which does not extend to the lateral margins 
and hence cannot said to be a band and there are numerous pale golden 
hairs inserted on the posterior margin of each segment. There are a few 
S' scattered pale scales on some of the segments laterally but one could not 
