Genus Sabethoides. 3899 
scales ; metanotum deep brown to black, with four deep brown 
chaetae ; pleurae blackish, with dense silvery-white flat scales. 
Abdomen deep metallic purple or violet, with brilliant mauve, 
pale blue, white and yellow scales, the pale coloured ones on 
each side (fig. 187) forming more or less basal spots on each 
side of the middle line, and a more or less distinct row beneath 

Fig. 187. 
Sabethoides confusus. n. sp. 
a, Head and prothoracic lobes ; b, abdomen; e, white basal 
patches on segments; f, first segment unadorned ; 
d, prothoracic lobes ; c, prothoracic bristle. 
joining the pale scaled ventral surface. When viewed from 
above the abdomen seems deep metallic blue, with basal coppery 
bands ; when viewed laterally it may be apple-green, with basal 
mauve bands and the pale basal spots referred to above ; now 
and then, as the light strikes the scales, red and yellow colours 
appear ; the apex has dense brown bristles. 
Legs bronzy-brown, with violet, blue and purple reflections ; 
in the mid legs the last three or four tarsi are irregularly white 
beneath ; ungues equal and simple, small. 
Wings clothed with Sabethes-like scales, brown, and the wing 
membrane with a brownish tinge ; fork-cells long; the first 
sub-marginal longer and narrower than the second posterior cell, 
its base nearer the base of the wing, its stem less than one-half 
