Genus Janthinosoma. 127 
lateral silvery white spots; venter with apical silvery white 
bands. Legs deep metallic violet, bases of the femora pale, last 
two hind tarsi white. 
2. Head black, with flat spindle-shaped creamy scales in 
the middle; flat, violet, yellow and black scales laterally and 
narrow brown upright forked-scales ; palpi, proboscis and 
antennae deep blackish-brown. Thorax black, with narrow 
curved black scales in the middle of the mesonotum and flat 
spindle-shaped creamy ones at the sides; scutellum black, with 
five black bristles to the mid lobe; metanotum deep brown ; 
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Vie. 


Fig. 70. 
a, Janthinosoma Lutztti. Theo. ; b, J. discrucians. W1k. (fore ungues 
of 9 and hind tarsi). 
pleurae black, with flat creamy white scales. Abdomen metallic 
violet, with apical lateral creamy white patches to all the 
segments except the last, the lateral patches most prominent on 
the apical segments; venter with apical bands of creamy white 
‘scales ; posterior border-bristles black. 
Legs unbanded, deep brown with violet reflections ; coxae 
_ brown, bases of the femora pallid yellowish, last two tarsi of the 
hinds legs white, fore and mid ungues uniserrated. Wings 
rather short ; first sub-marginal cell a little longer and narrower 
than the second posterior cell, its base nearer the base of the 
