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middle, with a line of silvery scales. Abdomen covered with 
golden-green scales, and with golden caudal tufts on the sixth 
and seventh segments. Legs black, with coppery-green and 
purple metallic reflections, and golden-yellow bases to femora ; 
second tarsal joint of hind legs white. 
3 . Head covered Avith flat bronzy-green scales, and a narrow 
line of blue ones in front * palpi covered with coppery-green 
and golden-green scales, dark mauve towards the apices of the 
joints, the extreme apices wich a narrow mauve band, last 
joint all mauve; the first four joints yellow beneath, the 
apical one darker than the rest, the second and fourth joints 
about the same length, the third a little longer than the other 
two, apical joint more than twice the length of the penultimate 
joint; antennae brown, with dense brown plumes, basal joint 
steely-black with cinereous reflections, second joint equal to about 
three of the following, densely scaled ; proboscis almost black 
Avith bronzy reflections. 
Thorax dark brown, covered dorsally with small dull bronzy 
scales, laterally with rather broader flat mauve and green scales, 
a small azure patch over the roots of the wings ; prothorac-ic 
lobes covered with flat scales, appearing bronzy-green in one light, 
mauve in another j scutellum ferruginous (denuded), but there are 
traces of green and blue flat scales, bordered with short golden- 
brown bristles ; metanotum testaceous-brown; pleurae yellowish 
above and below, dark in the middle; the scales above and below 
are yellowish, those in the middle form a silvery-white irregular 
line. 
Abdomen steely-black, densely covered with flat golden-yellow 
metallic scales, the sixth and seventh segments with dense lateral 
patches of deep golden hairs, the basal joints of the genitalia 
covered with golden-green flat scales, the claspers dark brown ; 
venter golden scaled, a few scales with pale apple-green reflections 
in the middle of the sterna. 
Legs black, with coppery-green metallic reflections when 
viewed in one light, purple in another; basal half of the hind 
femora golden yellow, bases of the fore and mid femora of a 
similar golden hue, in some lights there is a mauve knee-spot; the 
second tarsal joint in the hind legs nearly all white, there being 
a small dark apical band; fore ungues unequal, the larger one 
toothed, the smaller simple, in the mid and hind legs equal and 
simple. 
Wings iridescent, scales at the base of the veins metallic 
