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Abdomen .—With dark purple-brown scales above, large quadrilateral 
white patches at the base of each segment laterally. Genital segment 
enlarged. Dorsal sclerite elongated backwards forming a plate arching 
over the claspers; it is concave below, convex above, concave on each side, 
and each lateral angle is prolonged forwards as a sort of horn. Each clasper 
consists of three pieces a basal piece and two apical pieces hinged to this ; 
the basal is concavo-convex the convex surface being outwards the edge 
between the two being continuous with the lateral edge of the dorsal sclerite. 
The anterior hinged piece consists of a dark brown chitinous rod which 
terminally is split into four blunt teeth. The|posterior piece is a sickle¬ 
shaped blade flattened antero-posteriorly; from the base of each basal 
portion a straight needle-like pointed rod projects backwards beneath the 
dorsal plate and possibly represents the internal claspers. 
Occurrence .—Described from one male taken at mid-day in the jungle a 
few miles from Kuala Lumpur. 
Remarks .—Resembles V. Malayi in many points but is evidently distinct. 
Verrallina Malayi. n. sp. 
Head with spatulate scales and a few purple-bronze upright forked 
scales on the central area, a well marked stripe of creamy scales at the 
sides. Thorax brown with a purple tinge in some lights, with bronzy 
scales. Scutellum with narrow scales. Under sides of femora silvery. 
Legs and abdomen dark purple-brown; abdomen with large lateral spots. 
All the ungues uni-serrate in the female. 
Female Head .—Covered above with dark purple-bronze scales which are 
limited laterally by a well-marked band of silvery scales which have a 
slightly yellowish tinge; this is succeeded by dark scales. A few dark 
brown short upright forked scales are inserted low down on the nape. 
Antennae broken. The basal joint is dark brown with a few dark brown 
scales on its inner face ; the second joint is also dark brown. Cypeus dark 
brown, nude. Palpi apparently three-jointed clad with dark purple-brown 
scales and some long dark brown hairs. Proboscis shorter than the 
abdomen clad with purple-brown scales. 
Thorax .—Prothoracic lobes dark brown with a row of dark brown 
bristles and some flat silvery scales. Mesonotum brown with a purple tinge 
in certain lights, the sides are rather more yellowish-brown than the centre; 
there are three ill-defined darker brown lines in the centre in front, the two i 
lateral ones turn outwards about halfway across the mesonotum; thinly 
clad with narrow-curved scales which vary with the light from a dark brown 
to a pale fawn-brown or light bronze. The mesonotal bristles are dark brown. 
Scutellum brown, with narrow-curved scales, dark, or lighter brown, accord¬ 
ing to the light; at the base of the central lobe mingled with the narrow-curved 
scales are a very few narrow spatulate scales. These are very difficult to 
see as they lie close to the scutellum and take its colour, but they are 
quite distinct if looked for carefully. Pleurae light muddy-brown with one 
or two darker patches, and three distinct patches of silvery-white spatulate 
scales and a few dark brown bristles. Wings smoky with dark brown 
scales, a few small spinose scales on the anterior edge of costa, a double 
row of median scales on first vein, and linear lateral ones on either margin 
