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with a purple tinge (madder brown is I believe the technical term for 
such a colour). Under a hand lens the scales over the central area are 
dark brown and low down at the sides the scales appear bluish ; there are 
rown upright forked scales with very broad serrated tops extending as far 
forwards as the vertex ; the vertical bristles are golden-brown the orbital 
dark brown. Basal joint of antenna is yellowish-brown with a few dark 
brovvn hairs on its inner and upper face, second joint dusky-brown with a 
few flat dark brown scales at the base and numerous short hairs densest 
towards the apex, the verticillate hairs are represented by three or four long 
ar ' rovn hairs inserted at different levels near the base, remaining joints 
dusky-brown, with dark brown verticillate hairs. The antenna are very 
long. Clypeus dark brown and nude. Palpi small but not so minute as 
they are as a rule in members of this genus, apparently two-jointed, the 
terminal joint thick, and projecting well beyond the clypeus, very hairy 
and clad with dark brown scales. Proboscis thick, about as long as the 
abdomen, clad with dark purple-brown scales. 
Thovax. Prothoracic lobes dark brown clad with flat scales which 
take the colour of their background and a row of long dark brown bristles. 
Mesonotum under a hand lens appears of a rich plum colour but under a 
2 /3 ^ appears of a dark brown shadowed with purple in places \ it is clad 
with narrow lanceolate scales slightly curved and of a pale fawn-brown 
co our , t e bristles are large and dark brown. Scutellum dark brown, 
c ad with small broad racquet-shaped dark brown scales, and with dark 
broYvn bristles which judging from the scars must have been five in number 
on the central lobe. Pleurae, of a creamy colour with a yellowish tinge 
above, marked by four large dark brown spots one just behind the 
prothoracic lobe a small one immediately behind this, another large one 
above the middle coxa, and behind this a large fourth spot. The brown 
patch above the middle coxa is covered with broad flat scales of a silvery- 
grey colour and running down its posterior edge is a line of dark brown 
bristles which is continued right down to the coxal insertion. There are 
other bristles on the brown patch behind and just beneath the prothoracic 
fobe in front is a small brown spot on which is a tuft of bristles. Wings 
clad with sepia brown scales of typical shape, the scales on anterior edge of 
costa spinose, the median scales on veins one to four small and spatulate, 
on the sixth and stem of fifth veins larger, and with rounded ends ; lateral 
scales present on branches of the forked veins and the whole of the third 
lanceolate at the base of the veins but more spindle-shaped towards the 
apices; fork cells small, first much smaller than second, its base nearer win°- 
apex ; posterior cross vein about its own length from median. Coxse 
oc raceous ; fore coxae brown in front and covered with numerous hairs ; 
tore legs broken off; mid femora with ochraceous scales at the base and on 
most.of the ventral surface, dark purple-brown scales above and laterally, 
remainder of the leg dark brown scaled. In some lights the scales have a 
metallic-bronze or almost coppery tint. Hind legs similar. 
Abdomen. Entirely clad with scales showing sometimes dark brown 
sometimes purple-bronze. 
. Occurrence .—*Only one specimen taken beside a jungle stream about 
six miles from Kuala Lumpur. 
