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Genus Panoplites. 
9 . Head brown, with narrow grey curved scales, broader 
white ones surrounding the eyes, and numerous very long black 
upright forked ones on the occiput; antennae black, with narrow 
white bands, basal joint dark brown, first few joints with black 
scales; palpi mottled with brown and creamy scales; proboscis 
ochraceous, densely scaled with large flat scales, dark near the 
base, with a few scattered grey scales, more or less bright 
ochraceous in the middle, and a few dusky ones at the tip. 
Thorax bright reddish-brown, with two median paler reddish- 
brown parallel lines on the mesonotum, somewhat darker between 
than the rest of the thorax ; there are a few dusky narrow curved 
scales, especially posteriorly, following the three parallel lines of 
long black bristles, the median of which ends in a bare space in 
front of the scutellum; there are also numerous long black 
lateral bristles, which are especially thick over the roots of the 
wings; along the dusky middle line, in front, on each side of the 
scutellum, and over the roots of the wings are a few golden 
curved scales, which form more or less a spot in front of the 
bare space before the scutellum and also on each side of the 
mesonotum ; scutellum dusky brown, with narrow pale golden 
curved scales and long rich brown border-bristles; metanotum 
deep brown; pleurae brown, apparently unspotted. 
Abdomen covered with deep brown scales, each segment with 
an apical border of yellow scales and with pale grey or pale 
yellow scales laterally; each segment with a row of posterior 
golden-brown border-bristles ; the first segment ochraceous, 
densely hairy, with yellow scales ; apical segment deep ochraceous, 
with dark scales and a border of small black bristles, like the 
former species; venter with scattered white and creamy scales. 
Legs ochraceous, covered with dark brown and creamy-yellow 
scales; venter of the femora almost white, knee spot creamy ; 
metatarsi and first two tarsi of the fore legs with white basal 
spots on the upper surface, in the middle legs on the first three 
tarsals, and in the hind on all the tarsi; these are true basal 
spots, not bands; ungues all equal and simple. 
Wings with the veins entirely covered with broad dusky and 
yellow squamae only, of a general yellowish tint; posterior border 
scales mostly black, a few are white, small, and rounded at the 
apex; first sub-marginal cell a little longer and narrower than 
the second posterior cell, its base about level with the base of 
the latter, its stem rather less than half the length of the cell; 
stem of the second posterior cell also about half the length of the 
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