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joints covered with black and metallic purple scales ; proboscis 
prominent, curved as in MegarJiinus, black with metallic purple, 
blue and green reflections. 
. Fig. 76. 
Psoropliora scintillans, Wlk. ($). 
a, Head of ? ; b, enlarged antennal base; c, head scale ; 
d, ungues ; e, thoracic scale ; f, seutellar scale. 
Thorax shiny black, with narrow curved hair-like scales in 
the middle and small flat white spindle-shaped curved ones at the 
sides, with black bristles at the sides and golden ones in front 
of the scutellum, the latter black with golden border-bristles ; 
metanotum dark brown; pleurae blackish brown with grey 
scales. 
Abdomen black, with bright violet-blue scales and black 
border-bristles, velvety brown on the first two segments and 
with greenish scales on the apical segment. Some specimens 
show white apical lateral patches. 
Legs black, with dense long scales wTiich show purple, violet, 
mauve and brassy reflections in certain lights ; apices of the 
hind femora white scaled ; the metatarsi and tarsi are not so 
thickly scaled as the rest of the legs, but on the hind legs the 
metatarsi are densely scaled ; ungues of the fore and mid and 
hind legs equal, toothed, the hind ones straighter than the 
others. 
Wings with a dusky yellowish-brown tinge; the veins 
clothed with small flat median and long lateral scales brown in 
colour; first sub-marginal cell a little longer and narrower than 
