Genus Megarhinus. 115 
Thorax black with golden green scales and bright blue 
prothoracic lobes; pleurae brown with white scales ; abdomen 
steel blue and purple, greenish at the base in the ?, caudal 
tuft distinct bronzy-black; legs unbanded, silvery beneath 
basally. 

“Fig. 66. 
Megarhinus trichopygus. Wiedemann. 
a, & palp and'proboscis ; b, @ palp and proboscis ; ¢, cross 
> veins of 9 ; d, & genitalia. 
9. Head black (denuded), with traces of flat apple-green 
scales ; antennae brown ; palpi yellowish, when denuded covered 
with metallic purple and blue scales and a few golden ones 
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