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with bluish metaUic refleciions. all joints faintly banded both apically and 



basally. Venter of femora and tibia? i)ale, with white scales. Apical 



banding of the hind tibia' conspicuous ; ungues equal and simple. 



Abdomen black, speckled with grayish scales, base grayish, with black and 



white scales, two black spots in the centre ; second segment with broad 



basal creamy band expanding in the mid line into a square area ; third 



segment with a narrow crescentic basal creamy area, the following 

 segments unbandcd ; last two apical segments with faint basal bands. 

 All the abdominal segments bordered apically with long white hairs. (Fig: 

 25, 2.) Wings densely scaled, veins with thick median and broad lateral 

 scales, especially on the third and fourth long veins. Scales not mottled. 

 The first submarginal considerably longer and narrower than the second 

 posterior cell, stem only one-sixth the length of the cell. Stem of the 

 second posterior slightly larger than half the cell ; posterior cross vein 

 rather more than its own length distant from the mid cross vein. 



Length, 4-5 mm. 



^ . — Scale ornamentation of the head and thorax closely resembling 

 that of the ^ . Palpi exceeding the proboscis by the two terminal joints ; 

 terminal joints hairy and somewhat swollen, bearing many long hairs in a 

 row on each side ; apex and base of the terminal joint while-scaled, 

 jienullimate joint basally banded ; on the venter, a little below the apex, 

 there is a white scaled area. (Fig. 25, 3.) Antepenultimate joint with 

 two bands of white scales, the distal broader one a short interval below the 

 apex, at a point corresponding to the band on the proboscis ; the narrow 

 basal band a short distance above the base ; a row of black hairs along the 

 inner aspect ; apical region somewhat inflated. Abdomen, base white, 

 with two central black spots ; second segment with broad basal band 

 expanding laterally into wide areas, also centrally into two divergent 

 rounded areas. Third and following segments with basal bands expanding 

 at the sides ; scales of all the lateral areas brighter than those in the 

 middle portion of the bands, which are creamy ; two white spots in the 

 centre of the third and succeeding segments. (Fig. 25, i.) Appendages 

 of the basal segment of clasp composed of a leaf-like organ and a broad 

 flattened hooked spine, also three simple straight spines. Ai)ical 

 segment terminating in two blunt teeth. (Fig. 25, 5.) Ungues of the 

 fore and mid legs uniserrated and unequal, of the hind equal and simple. 



Length, 4-5 mm. 



