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white patch between the eyes and a very narrow white margin to the eyes, 
rrothoracic lobes purple edged with white. Abdomen metallic-purple 
with silvery triangular basal lateral spots. Wings heavily clad with broad 
scales many with oblique ends. 
Female Head. Dark slate-grey, entirely covered with large flat scales 
with rounded ends white on the vertex and along the upper half of the 
orbital margin, dark purple elsewhere. The scales are metallic and the 
colour varies with the amount and direction of the light sometimes appear¬ 
ing dark peacock-blue. The white patch on the vertex is very small and 
occupies the space between the eyes, the white scales along the orbital 
margin consist of one row near the vertex but more laterally the line 
broadens though not into a definite patch until it gets round to the cheeks 
beneath, where it merges into a large patch of silvery scales. Upright 
forked scales may be present but as the back of the head is concealed by 
t e prothorax this cannot be determined. Basal joint of antenna dark slate- 
grey with a few small white scales on the upper part of the inner face 
second joint purple-black with patch of white scales on its inner face* 
remaining joints purple-black with numerous short silvery hairs and black 
verticils. Palpi rather more than one-fourth the length of the proboscis 
certainly three, probably four-jointed. Clypeus black, naked. Proboscis 
s ort not more than two-thirds the length of the abdomen. Proboscis and 
palpi clad with dark metallic-purple scales. 
n TJiovax '.—I rothoracic lobes very large meeting above and forming a 
col ar behind the head, clad with dark metallic-purple scales with an edging 
anterior y o silvery scales. Mesonotum black with a brownish tin^e 
entirely covered with spindle-shaped obovate and spatulate scales which are 
metallic and look dark bronze or purple-bronze or dark bronze-green 
according to the direction of the light; in front overhanging the prothorax 
are large spatulate scales and these scales instead of pointing backwards 
point forwards covering posterior parts of the prothorax above. Lar^e 
bristles inserted on the prothoracic lobes project outwards on either side "of 
t e head. . On either shoulder just above and behind the prothoracic lobe of 
each side is a broad band of creamy-yellow flat scales. Pleura? dark brown 
with patches of silvery scales. Wings very densely clad with dark purple- 
brown scales, where they are massed the colour is purple where single 
brown ; the spinose scales on the anterior edge of costa are numerous and 
ong the subcosta has broad taeniorhyncus-like scales; on the first long vein 
and the second and its branches the scales are large broad scales with oblique 
ends , on the third, and succeeding veins there are broad oblique-ended 
median scales and long narrow clavate lateral scales; there are no lateral 
scales on the sixth; fork cells long, first longer and narrower than the second 
its base, nearer wing base, its stem about one-fourth the length of the cell; 
posterior cross vein twice its own length from the median. Coxae light 
yellowish-brown with golden bristles and silvery flat scales. Under sides 
° m< L i mora si ^ ver y> pale golden in some lights; the remainder of hind, and 
the whole of the fore and mid legs clad with metallic-purple scales; ungues 
equal and simple on all the legs and almost straight. Metanotum purple; 
near its junction with abdomen there is a tuft of ochraceous bristles about 
twenty-five in number the area in which they are inserted being roughly 
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