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the body are flattened, and feathered along their margins. The pecten 

 rows extend through the whole length of the tube, a branched hair is 

 present on each side, about half way up : the chitinous covering of the 

 thorax and abdomen is densely covered with interlacing dendritic spicules.. 

 The ungues of this species are as follows : 



9 . All equal and simple. (^ . Fore tarsus unequal, larger claw 

 biserrate, the mid tooth blunt ; basal tooth narrow and pointed ; smaller 

 claw uniserrate. jVIid tarsus unequal, larger claw biserrate, with a blunt 

 mid tooth ; smaller claw uniserrate. Hind tarsus, claws equal and 

 simple. 



6. Hoivardina aureostriata. nov. sp. — % . Proboscis black, slightly 

 curved downwards, rather long and narrow, three quarters length of 

 abdomen. Palpi black, extremity of terminal joint golden-scaled, a few 

 golden scales on the upper median surface of the penultimate joint; under 

 surface of palpi speckled with gold scales. Antennae black, scattered gold 

 scales throughout its length, especially on the lower joints ; about three- 

 quarters length of proboscis. Clypeus black. (Fig. 26.) A narrow 

 median band of golden scales on the centre of the occiput, 

 two broad bands of golden scales on each side of the 

 occiput, the intervening spaces black-scaled ; a number of 

 ^^;. ^«j,,^. upright forked scales on the nape; scales on the extreme 

 iflSSlf'^l sides of the head silvery. Thorax black-scaled, with seven 

 l^l^llJfi rows of brilliant narrow curved golden scales, the outer- 

 '^ ^^■^'^ most pair starting from the wing insertions, curving round 

 and bordering the mesonotum laterally and anteriorly ; the 

 next pair arise from the preceding near the anterior border 

 Fiv. 26.— Howard- ^f ^|-,g mesouotum, and run backward, terminating; in the 



\ n a aureostn.ita : ' ' s 



ornamentation of lateral lobes of the scutellum ; the innermost pair also 



head and thorax. ^ i 



originate anteriorly, and course backwards, gradually 

 narrowing, over three-quarters the length of the mesonotum. The 

 seventh row arises in the hinder third of the mesonotum, and terminates 

 on the posterior margin of the mid lobe of the scutellum. Prothorax with 

 brilliant silvery scales. Patches of silvery scales on the pleura. Scutellum 

 with a median and two lateral bands of golden scales. Three long hairs 

 on each of the lateral lobes and four on the central lobe. Wings with 

 pale brown scales, the lateral ones long and narrow, median ones short 

 and obconical. First submarginal cell narrower and one-third of its length 



