Genus Haemagogus. 309 
laterally with white basal spots, largest at the base of the 
abdomen, forming almost a white line, venter basally white 
banded. Legs unbanded, ungues equal and simple. Wings 
unspotted, the first sub-marginal cell with its stem longer than 
the cell and the base of the second posterior cell nearer the base 
of the wing than that of the first sub-marginal. 
2. Head black, covered with metallic blue flat scales and 
with black bristles ; proboscis and palpi covered with deep blue 
and black metallic scales ; antennae 
black, basal joint deep brown, < ya... a. 
second joint with some dull peacock | ~ a 
blue scales. 
Thorax shiny black (denuded), 
with flat black, blue, and dull 
ochraceous scales and some white 
ones in front of the roots of the 
wings, also a tuft of black scales 
and numerous black bristles over 
the roots of the wings; back of 
the mesonotum notched at the sides. 
Scutellum deep brown, with a few 
large central bristles and several t 
large lateral ones, very much se- 
parated from the mesonotum ; 
pleurae with flat silvery - white 
scales. 
Abdomen covered with rich 
metallic violet scales, the penulti- 
mate and the antepenultimate seg- 
ments with a silvery-white median 
basal patch, laterally the segments 
have basal white elongated tri- Fig, 171. 
angular spots, forming almost a Haemagogus albomaculatus. n. sp. 
distinct lateral line; venter with ® fewer ote Tate ee 
basal white bands ; the fourth seg- 
ment with two large posterior border-bristles, the fifth with one 
very long black bristle, arising from the middle of the segment 
and passing over the sixth and with two border-bristles ; remain- 
ing segments with a few much shorter ones (vide fig. Ay 
Legs unbanded, bronzy brown and metallic blue and violet, 
with numerous black bristles ; ungues equal and simple. 
Wings with brown scales and tinged with brown; the first 





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