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and at the base and black chaetae ; proboscis ochreous-jmllow 
with black scaled apex and some black scales at the base * 
antennae brown, ochreous-yellow at the base, the second segment 
with some black flat scales ; clypens ochreons. 
Thorax ochreous-brown with narrow-curved pale golden scales, 
with two small areas of black ones in front, two larger ones 
behind and a line along the middle ; chaetae brown, tipped with 
golden ; scutellum ochreous-brown with narrow-curved pale golden 
scales and seven or eight brown border-bristles to the mid lobe; 
metanotum ochreous. 
Abdomen with ochreous basal segment, with a few dusky 
median scales, second, third and fourth segments mostly deep 
violet, fifth with ochreous median scales, remainder mainly 
ochreous with dark violet apical bands. The abdomen evidently 
subject to much variation, as one specimen shows most of the 
segments with ochreous line with dark apical bands, but always 
more violet basally than apically ; posterior border-bristles golden. 
Legs yellow, the tibiae with a narrow median black band and 
a narrow apical one, on the hind legs apices of metatarsi and 
tarsals with a narrow black to violet band ; ungues unequal and 
simple. 
Wings tinged with yellow on the outer costal border; vein 
scales yellow and dusky brown, the yellow especially marked on 
Fig. 201. 
Wing of Chrysoconops pseudoconopas, ?. n. sp. 
the fifth and its inner branch, on the outer border of the costa 
and first long vein, the dark especially noticeable on the third, 
apices of fourth, base of outer branch of fifth and on the sixth 
a dark patch of broader scales at the base of the first and 
second veins, very like that on the base of the costa in conopas; 
the area between the fifth and the pseudo-vein between it and 
the sixth fringed with yellow • fork-cells very long, the first 
