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Fig. 244. 
Wing of Panoplites annuli- 
fera{ ?). (X. 9.) 
Thorax clothed with bright tawny scales, with four distinct 
round snow-white spots with a dark stripe running backwards 
from the posterior of the anterior spots, ending between or just 
before the second pair, an indistinct fifth spot may also be 
present; metanotum dark brown ; pleurae with a patch of white 
scales beneath the roots of the wings. 
Abdomen fuscous, with paler apical borders, marked laterally 
with white scales, which extend more or less as bands across the 
abdomen, last three segments with many white scales; each 
segment has also a border of bristles, and is laterally as well 
as basally darker when denuded ; venter with numerous white 
scales. 
Wings clothed with very broad dark brown and pale scales 
along the veins, giving them a somewhat mottled appearance; 
border of the wings with similar broad scales as well as narrower 
ones and the long fringe. Halteres with 
the stem pale and the knob large and 
dark, cup-shaped. 
Legs all banded for their entire length; 
anterior femora yellowish-brown, with a 
few scattered black scales, with five more 
or less distinct white bands j tibiae with four white bands, 
the black scales being more abundant, giving the dark bands 
almost a black appearance ; metatarsi banded in the middle, 
first and second tarsi basally banded white, last two joints not 
banded, covered with dark scales; mid femora darker, with only 
two or three pale (not white) indistinct bands ; tibiae with five 
white bands; metatarsi banded with white at the base and 
middle; first and second tarsal joints basally white, last two 
unbanded, darker ; hind legs with the femora with five white 
bands and white apex, tibiae with four white bands, metatarsi 
with basal and middle bands and all the tarsi basally white. 
Length .—4 to 4*5 mm. 
Habitat .—Madras (Goodrich) (12. 12. 1899) ; Quilon, Travan- 
core (James); Behar, Bengal. 
Observations .—This species is quite distinct from C. annulipes 
of Walker, being much paler, of a more uniform yellowish-brown 
appearance to the naked eye, and may be distinguished from 
others of this genus by the spots on the thorax. Walker’s type 
in the British Museum is still in fair condition, and is named 
C. annulipes. It is subject to some variation in size and colour, 
but never becomes the dark hue of the following species. 
