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ferruginous, metallic blue and azure scales on their roots and on 
the costal and first long, vein (denuded); the mid cross-vein small, 
not meeting the posterior cross-vein. Fore and mid ungues 
unequal, the larger ones with a single tooth, the smaller simple ; 
hind ones equal. 
Length .—11 mm. 
9 . Head as in the $ ; antennae dark brown, basal joint 
chocolate brown with grey reflections, base of the second joint 
ferruginous; palpi covered with almost black scales, the apices of 
the second and third joints brilliant blue and violet; proboscis 
long and curved, with metallic purple and black scales. 
Thorax much as in the £ , traces of broad flat green and blue 
scales over the roots of the wings ; scutellum with blue, violet 
and green scales, the latter towards the base; pleurae brown, 
with silvery scales in dense patches. 
Abdomen covered with metallic blue and purple scales. 
Wings with the veins clothed with azure-blue and brown 
scales ; the mid cross-vein sntall, and some distance nearer the 
base of the wing than the posterior cross-vein. 
Legs with tarsi banded with wdiite scales ; in the fore legs the 
metatarsus is all white except a small ring at its base, the first 
tarsal joint white on the basal half, remainder of tarsi purple 
scaled; in the mid legs the base of the metatarsus and the whole 
of the first tarsal joint pure white, and in the hind legs the base 
of the first tarsal joint only white ; ungues equal and simple ; 
the femora are pale vent rally. 
Length .—11 mm. 
Habitat .—New Guinea. 
Observations .—Redescribed from two specimens in the British 
Museum, one presumably Walker’s type of the J described in 
Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. viii. p. 102. A female is placed with it 
with broadly banded tarsi, the bands of white being basal. 
They both come from New Guinea, and are evidently a £ and 9 
of the same species. The caudal tuft is clearly yellow and black, 
although no mention is made of it in Walker’s short description. 
I am not certain if the 9 has broken palpi or if they are 
3-jointed, but fancy it is a Megarhinus. 
