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brown; basal joint black, with cinereous reflections, nude, small; 
eyes bronzy. 
Thorax brown, covered with olive-brown scales, with a 
greenish tinge, rather broader pale blue ones on each side, 
almost mauve in some lights; prothoracic lobes with pale blue 
to mauve scales, blue and green scales over the roots of the 
wings somewhat longer and flatter; scutellum deep brown, with 
flat greenish and blue scales; metathorax deep brown, pleurae 
black, with dense white scales. 
Abdomen brilliant deep metallic blue, with a caudal tuft of 
white, black, and orange hairs; laterally are numerous white 
scales and white hairs in patches; venter steel-blue. 
Legs metallic blue and purple, mid leg with the base of the 
metatarsus and greater part of the first tarsal joint, pure white; 
in the hind legs the base of the first tarsal only; fore legs 
uniformly coloured, ungues equal and simple. 
Wings with some metallic blue scales to the veins, as long or 
longer than the body; veins testaceous, supernumerary cross¬ 
vein only about two and a half times its own length nearer 
the apex of the wing than the mid cross-vein; mid and posterior- 
cross-veins join, forming a moderate angle; posterior cross-vein 
long. 
Length.—8 mm. 
Habitat. —Natal. 
Observations .—Described from two 9’s, one nearly perfect, in 
the old collection. They cannot be included in the genus 
Megarhinus, on account of the short 9 palpi, yet the venation is 
just like that of the Megarhinas. 
