Genus Sabethes. 325 
metallic violet and bronzy hue. Ungues of the fore legs 
moderately long, equal and simple, of the mid or paddle legs 
with one simple claw and a thick blunt claw terminating in 
several small blunt teeth, one longer than the rest ; hind ungues 
small, equal and simple. 
Wings long and narrow ; fork-cells long, clothed with broad 
fiat scales ; first sub-marginal cell longer and narrower than the 
second posterior cell, its base nearer the base of the wing, its 
stem equal to about half the length of the cell ; second posterior 

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cell wide, its stem nearly as long as the cell ; posterior cross-vein 
longer than the mid, about two-thirds of its own length nearer 
to the apex of the wing. THalteres deep brown, testaceous at 
the base. 
Length.—6 mm. 
@. Head clothed with flat azure-blue and green scales, with 
violet reflections in certain lights ; palpi and proboscis almost 
black, with dull violet reflections; antennae brown, with pale 
pubescence, brown hairs and pale brown basal joints ; clypeus 
fawn coloured, nude. 
Thorax with metallic violet, coppery red and green scales, 
the coppery red and violet on the posterior part and especially 
at the sides, the arrangement of colours varies in different lights ; 
prothoracic lobes covered with flat blue scales ; scutellum with 
flat green scales ; pleurae with shiny silvery white scales ; meta- 
notum deep brown, with black chaetae. 
Abdomen metallic blue and violet, with white scales laterally ; 
venter with blue and coppery scales ; apex with brown bristles. 
Legs metallic violet and coppery, the mid pair with a dense 
paddle as in the male ; ungues of the fore legs equal and simple ; 
mid equal and simple, nearly straight; hind «ery small, equal 
and simple. 
Wings clothed with dense asymmetrical scales of a deepish 
brown hue, first sub-marginal cell considerably longer and 
narrower than the second posterior cell, its base considerably 
