183 
Genus Panoplites. 
basally pale banded ; femora ochraceous, sparsely covered with 
fuscous scales, so that the ground colour shows through, and also 
with scattered ochraceous scales; tibiae and metatarsi dark 
brown, with scattered yellow scales; base of the fore metatarsi 
and first two tarsi white, last two black; in the mid legs the 
first three tarsi are basally white banded; in the hind the 
banding is much broader and whiter; fore and mid ungues equal 
and simple. 
Wings densely covered with typical broad Panoplites scales, 
brown and creamy-yellow; border-scales clavate, dark brown 
and yellow; first sub-marginal cell longer and narrower than the 
second posterior cell, their bases nearly level; stem of the 
former about one-third the length of the cell; stem of the latter 
rather less than one-third of the length of the cell; posterior 
cross-vein covered in scales, more than twice its length distant 
from the mid cross-vein. Halteres with a pale stem and fuscous 
knob. 
Length. —4 * 3 to 5 mm. 
Habitat .—Lower Amazon (Austen) (9. 6. 1880). 
Time of capture. —January. 
Observations .—Described from a single female. The thoracic 
ornamentation is different to any other Panoplites. The dense 
bright golden-brown scaled anterior portion of the mesothorax 
and the unspotted legs and banded tarsi will at once serve to 
identify it from the other members of the genus. 
5. Panoplites annulifera. n. sp, 
(Fig. 120, PL XXX.) 
Thorax tawny yellow, with four snow-white round spots, 
with a dark line running backwards from the posterior border of 
the two anterior spots; an indistinct fifth white spot may also 
be present. Abdomen with white scales laterally, and forming- 
bands across the segments, last three segments with many white 
scales. Legs yellowish-brown, all the joints with many white 
bands. 
9 • Head clothed with brownish-golden scales and long 
golden-brown hairs; eyes black, with a silvery border; palpi 
yellowish-brown, with a few scattered dark brown scales ; apex 
snow-white; antennae brown, with pale bands; proboscis 
yellowish-brown, dark at the apex and base. 
