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Fig. 242. 
dark scales and a few white ones, apex white; proboscis 
yellowish-brown, a little dark at the base and very dark at the 
apex, in fact broadly pale banded in the 
middle (in some specimens only). 
Thorax brown, with scattered brown 
scales and a few golden ones, black hairs, 
and with long black curved scales at the 
sides in front of the wings, when denuded 
showing longitudinal markings; scutellum 
brown, with pale golden scales, dark at 
each side and in the centre, metanotum 
deep brown ; pleurae brown and cinereous, 
with a few white scales. 
Abdomen covered with dusky purplish- 
black and deep brown scales, and with 
yellow scales at the sides, when denuded 
yellowish-brown in the middle, darker towards 
the apex, segments bordered with golden- 
brown hairs, which are more dense at the 
sides and below; penultimate segment with 
Panoplites titillans, Wlk. „ . , , , . . . 
Palpi of male and female. a r0W ° f short black S P lneS 011 the P 0sterl0r 
border; laterally is present a line of black 
scales; venter ochraceous, with scattered dusky scales, especially 
towards the posterior borders. 
Some specimens have white scales on the apical borders of 
the segments and at the sides and below, others have apical 
yellow-scaled bands. 
Legs yellowish-brown, clothed with ochraceous and dark 
brown scales ; femora and tibiae with darker scales, especially 
towards their apices ; fore tibiae with ochraceous reflections, first 
three front tarsi basally pale, mid 
tarsi the same; hind tarsi all 
basally pale yellowish except the 
last; ungues equal, simple. 
Wings with the posterior cross¬ 
vein about twice its own length 
distant from the mid cross-vein; border-scales white and dusky, 
rounded at the end (Fig. 241); first sub-marginal cell narrower 
than second posterior cell, their stems about as long as the 
cells; bases of the wings pale testaceous. Halteres pale, with 
dusky knobs. 
Length .—5 * 5 mm. 
Fig. 243. 
Panoplites titillans, Walker ( ? ). (X. 9.) 
