Peristome is scarcely expanded, thickened liplike, bordered with bluish black, the margins are connected by a very weak callus, the right margin is arched at the insertion.
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Their broad, smooth, low dark-colored upper shell, or carapace, ranges in its exact colour from black to a bluish black with a number of yellow tiny round spots.
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They are ochreous blue-grey, finely and densely speckled with bluish black, the spiracular zone of the abdomen forming a darker but irregular band with a more rufous edging above and below.
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The most common North American species belongs to the genus " Collops " ( " C . quadrimaculatus " ) and is reddish, with two bluish black spots on each elytron.
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The male Vieillot's crested fireback, " L . rufa ", of the Thai-Malay Peninsula and most of Sumatra has white central tail feathers, red legs and bluish black streaked white below.
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The secondary wings are entirely bluish black, with the outer margin between the dentations narrowly bordered with scarlet; a transverse curved band of four longitudinal scarlet spots, with the anterior part more obscure, runs across the wing; the three first from the inner margin are of an equal size, but the fourth is smaller and somewhat quadrate.
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Plate X figure 5 . The primary wings deep bluish black, with the summits clearer; a greyish blue oblique band commences about the middle of the inner margm and extends to the median nervure between the first and second median nervules; this band has on its outer side, between the second and third median nervules, a quadrate white spot.
