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Genus Panoplites. 
scattered white scales and a border of bright brown bristles, seven 
bristles on the mid lobe and five on each side ; metanotum brown ; 
pleurae with two patches of white scales. 
Abdomen covered with dark purplish-brown scales, with patches 
of white and yellow scales laterally, the white on the posterior 
border of the segments ; a few ochraceous patches on the dorsum; 
posterior borders paler, with golden hairs, the last few segments 
when denuded testaceous; venter with white and ochraceous 
scales on a dark ground. 
Legs with the femora yellowish, mottied with dark scales and 
patches of white, no distinct banding; anterior tibiae dark in 
front, with about seven white spots; posterior tibiae with five 
white and six dark bars in front, yellowish beneath; metatarsi 
of all the legs pale at the base and banded white in the middle ; 
the first two tarsal joints of the fore and mid legs basally white; 
all basally banded in the hind legs; ungues simple. 
Wings mottled with dusky and pale creamy broad scales; 
posterior border with dark and light basal scales; border scales 
small; fringe dark; posterior cross-vein about twice its own 
length distant from the mid cross-vein; the base of the fork of 
the second posterior cell slightly nearer the base of the wing than 
that of the first sub-marginal; the cells of about equal width, the 
latter slightly the longer. Halteres with a pale stem and dark 
knob. 
Length. —4*5 to 5 mm. 
Habitat. —Quilon, Travancore, S. India (S. P. James) (7. 4. 
1900); Taiping, Perak (Wray) (22. 11. and 21. 12. 1899). 
Date of capture. —In S. India, February (James, February 8). 
Observations. —Very like P. annulifera, but has no white 
thoracic spots and is slightly darker in colour. The “ border 
scales ” are not large and spatulate as in P. annulifera , but are 
both dusky and white typical Culex scales. The thoracic orna¬ 
mentation should easily identify this species. Specimens of what 
are undoubtedly this insect were sent by Mr. Wray from Perak, 
a few minor differences, none of them structural, being due, I 
fancy, to the Perak specimens being in better condition. In the 
latter the white scales pass over the oval bare purplish spots 
seen in the Quilon specimens, and some of the white scales pass 
into middle golden-brown ones. The abdomen does not show so 
plainly the pale lateral scales, and is covered at the apex with 
yellow scales, which have probably been worn off in the Quilon 
specimens. The white scales appear very distinctly at the sides 
