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Genus Panoplites. 
outwards, clothed with long hairs. Thorax elevated oval, black, with 
some dark stripes. Abdomen cylindrical, armed with long hairs on both 
sides. Legs moderately long, as slender as hairs, black, hairless, with a 
white ring on each joint. Wings as long as the abdomen, scaly, black 
along the anterior border.” 
With the exception of not mentioning the white spotted 
thorax, the above description will be seen to apply fairly well to 
the C. annulipes of Walker. 
7. Panoplites Africanus. n. sp. 
Proboscis with median broad and narrow apical yellow 
bands. Thorax dark brown, ornamented with narrow golden- 
brown and silvery scales, the silvery ones forming more or less 
two spots on the mesonotum and occurring on each side of the 
posterior half of the thorax. Abdomen dark brown, the basal 
segments with basal median yellow spots, the apical segments 
with yellow apical bands ; there are also white apical lateral 
spots; venter pale, with creamy scales, apex often mostly white 
scaled. Legs dark brown, banded and mottled with white. 
Wings with black and yellow scales. 
9 • Head brown, with narrow curved grey scales and flat 
white ones at the sides, a white border round the eyes and 
numerous long upright forked dark brown scales; proboscis 
dark brown to almost black, with a broad median yellow band 
and a yellow band at the apex; palpi covered with dark brown 
scales, apex white scaled, and there is also a band towards the 
base; antennae brown, broadly banded with grey, the grey bands 
involving the base and apex of contiguous joints; basal joint 
testaceous, second joint pale testaceous, with a few black scales; 
clypeus deep testaceous. 
Thorax deep brown (when denuded showing two parallel 
median grey lines), covered fairly thickly with narrow curved 
hair-like golden-brown and silvery scales, arranged as follows : 
a broad median band of golden-brown scales, which extends back 
to the bare space in front of the scutellum, and which then sends 
a branch down on each side of the clear space ; there is also a 
patch on each side of the mesonotum in front of the wings, 
apparently more or less connected with the median golden-brown 
area by a narrow band of similar scales extending to the front of 
the mesonotum; the white scales occur in front and on each side 
