Genus Panoplites. 
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Genus 12.— PANOPLITES. »ov. ge nJ > ' .. ; , . 
Palpi short in the 9 ? long in the £, in the latter with hair 
tufts, four-jointed in the 9 an( l d i in the 9 the first joint is 
small, the third long, the fourth small and nipple-like. Head 
clothed with narrow curved and long upright forked scales; 
thorax with thin hair-like curved scales and numerous bristles ; 
scutellum with similar squamae; abdomen with flat scales with 
very convex apices. The abdomen of the 9 i s usually blunt, and 
the penultimate segment may have a row of short thick spines. 
Wings densely seeded along the veins with broad asymmetrical flat 
scales (Plate B) on each side of the veins only , no median scales , 
and also in some cases with long lateral clavate scales; fork of 
the second posterior cell usually nearer the base of the wing than 
that of the first sub-marginal cell. Legs usually more or less 
mottled and banded with white ; ungues of the 9 equal and 
simple, of the $ unequal, the larger one toothed, the smaller 
simple (in P. titillans . Wlk.). 
Distribution 0 f Panoplites. n.g. 
Species of this genus, whose chief distinctive character is the 
presence of large scales on the veins of the wings, have been 
received from S. and N. America, West Indies, Australia, Africa, 
