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mented with narrow-curved pale scales in front, and a more or 
less roughly formed V-shaped area on each side in front of the 
wings, some pale scales infront of the bare space in front of the 
scutellum, and others running across the nude area just in front 

_ Fig. 137. 
Taentorhynchus confinnis. Arribalzaga. 
a, Palp of 2; bande wing scales ; d, thoracic ornamentation. 
of the.scutellum ; scutellum bright testaceous brown, with narrow 
curved pale scales and a dense double row of long black border- 
bristles ; metanotum deep brown; pleurae bright brown, with 
some patches of pale scales. . 
Abdomen deep brown, with violet reflections, the segments 
with narrow pure white apical borders, in certain lights 
appearing silvery ; first segment pallid, with a few median dark 
scales ; venter covered with yellowish scales. 
Legs deep brown to almost black, banded and speckled with 
pale yellow ; bases of the legs bright brown ; femora and tibiae 
almost black, with rows of small yellow spots ; apex of the 
tibiae pale, and also the bases of the metatarsi pale banded ; 
the first two of the fore and mid and all the hind tarsi with 
rather broad. basal pale bands; ungues equal and simple. 
Wings slightly tinged with brown ; the veins clothed with small 
brown T'aeniorhynchus-like scales ; the first sub-marginal cell a 
little longer and narrower than the second posterior cell, its stem 
