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A Monograph of Cidicidae. 
with lateral basal white patches; venter pale scaled. Legs dark 
brown, long ; coxae ochraceous. Ungues of the 9 equal, simple. 
9 • Head black, with flat black scales, with metallic green 
and purple reflections ; sides of the head with similar grey scales ; 
two long black bristles project in front between the eyes, and 
other shorter ones on each side ; eyes of a pale coppery and purple 
hue; proboscis very long, much longer than the whole body, 
sometimes nearly as long again, at others only half as long again, 
thin, covered with dark brown to black scales, hairy at the apex ; 
antennae deep brown, the basal joint of a deep purplish-black, 
less than one-third the length of the proboscis ; palpi very short, 
covered with deep purplish-black scales, somewhat testaceous at 
the base, apparently four-jointed, the last joint being very small; 
clypeus deep purplish-black. 
Thorax deep black, shiny when denuded, covered with dusky- 
black and bronzy-black flat spindle-shaped scales, a tuft of deep 
brown bristles over the roots of the wings; prothoracic lobes 
covered with broad scales, with metallic purple reflections ; scu- 
tellurn black, plated with broad overlapping scales, with faint 
yellow metallic reflections in some lights, brilliant iridescent 
metallic in others; border-bristles bright brown; metanotum 
deep purplish-black, with two distinct golden-brown bristles on 
the posterior half near the edge, as in W. Grayii, and with 
apparently two smaller ones close to them; pleurae testaceous, 
and dark brown. 
Abdomen covered with dusky-black scales, with dull purplish 
1 elections in some lights, with lateral, basal, triangular patches 
of silvery-white scales ; venter with silvery-white scales ; posterior 
borders of the segments with very short golden-brown bristles. 
Legs long, covered with dark brown scales, with ochraceous 
and bronzy reflections; coxae pale ochraceous ; hind metatarsi 
longer than the tibiae; mid and hind ungues equal, simple. 
Wings with brown scales to the veins, the median ones rather 
long, the lateral ones long, curved and truncated; fork-cells 
long and narrow, the first sub-marginal cell a little the narrower 
of the two, their bases nearly level, stem of the first sub-marginal 
cell about half the length of the cel], equal to that of the second 
posterior cell; posterior cross-vein about its own length distant 
from the mid cross-vein; fringe scales of three types : (i) very 
long stalked spindle-shaped ones; (ii) shorter ones of the same 
shape; and (iii) darker, short, broader border scales; basal lobe 
of the wing long, with five bristles in a row. 
