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Germs Eretmapodites. 
dark brown, with narrow pale bands ; basal joint black, with a 
few small ochraceous scales; second joint testaceous, with black 
and ochraceous scales. 
Thorax ferruginous-brown when denuded, covered with bright 
golden-yellow and chocolate-brown narrow curved scales, as 
follows : a median and two lateral chocolate-brown longitudinal 
strfpes, separated by golden-yellow ones, the latter six in number, 
and the golden-yellow scales meeting round the front of the 
mesonotujn, the five dark lines showing in great contrast to the 
six yellow ones; the space in front of the scutellum is yellowish, 
with a few curved black scales, numerous black bristles over the 
roots of the wings; scutellum yellowish, with curved scales at 
the sides, flat black ones on the mid lobe, with a central patch of 
silvery ones, and long brown bristles ; metanotum clear yellowish- 
brown; pleurae clear yellowish, with a line of burnished silver 
scales and three brilliant silver spots, one over the root of 
each leg. 
Abdomen dorsally black, with dull metallic violaceous 
reflections (in some lights), the last two segments with brilliant 
silver and metallic scales, always most distinct on the apical 
segment, laterally there are five diagonal white patches, sloping 
backwards; posterior borders of the segments with short golden 
hairs ; venter covered with brilliant creamy-yellow scales, the 
last three or four segments with an apical border of long black 
scales, projecting over the following segment. 
Legs with the coxae yellowish; bases and the basal half of 
the femora yellow below, remainder of the legs black, with 
bronzy reflections, except a small white knee spot on the mid and 
hind legs ; hind metatarsus not quite as long as the hind tibia ; 
legs densely scaled, but the scales lying flat; ungues of the fore 
legs equal, uniserrated, the tooth about the middle of the claw; 
those of the mid legs also equal and toothed; of the hind small, 
equal and simple. 
Wings covered with dark brown scales, especially dark along 
the costal border, the lateral scales rather shorter and thicker 
than usual; first sub-marginal cell considerably longer and a little 
narrower than the second posterior cell; its stem equal to two- 
thirds the length of the cell, its base nearer the base of the wing 
than the base of the second posterior cell ; stem of the short 
second posterior cell considerably longer than the cell; the sixth 
vein nude near the border of the wing ; supernumerary and mid 
cross-veins meet at a considerable angle, posterior cross-vein 
