Genus Panoplites. 
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6. Panoplites annulipes. Walker. 
Gulex annulipes. Walker. 
Gulex dives. Schiner. 
Gulex nero. Doleschall (?). 
(Fig. 119, PI. XXX.) 
(Keise der Novara, p. 31, Schiner; Natuurkundig. Tijdsch. v. Ned. Ind. 
xiv. 383 (= nero), Doleschall? Proc. Lin. Soc. Lond. i. p. 5 (1857), 
Walker.) 
Thorax very dark brown, with dark coppery scales, with six 
bright greenish-white spots. Abdomen blackish, the ante¬ 
penultimate and penultimate segments with white-scaled lateral 
patches. Legs long, black, banded white, including the femora 
and tibiae. 
9 . Head blackish, with long black forked scales, with some 
scattered white ones, and with ten long bristles projecting in 
front ; eyes brilliant purple and pale bronze towards the middle ; 
antennae with basal joint dark, base of first to fourth joints 
banded white, remainder brownish-purple; palpi yellowish- 
brown, thickly scaled with dark scales near the apex and 
white ones at the extreme tip; proboscis with dusky purple 
scales at the base, then a yellow band, and then more dusky 
scales, whilst the tip is yellow scaled and has also some golden 
hairs. 
Thorax dark brown, covered with very dark coppery-brown 
scales, a spot in the middle line and one on each side near the 
neck of pale greenish-white scales, another on each side a little 
way behind, and one in the middle of the thorax; scutellum 
densely whitish-green scaled in the middle, and with a small 
lateral patch of a similar colour; thoracic bristles large and 
brilliant, very pronounced on the scutellar edge; metanotum 
deep reddish-brown. 
Abdomen covered with dense broad dark purplish-black 
scales; the segments with posterior borders of golden hairs, the 
two segments preceding the last with two patches of white scales 
on the sides; venter densely clothed with dark purplish-black 
scales, with a few white ones dotted about. 
Legs long, especially the posterior pair, black, banded white ; 
anterior femora with six distinct white bars outside, one 
complete band near the apex, knee yellow scaled; tibiae with 
