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palpi dark brown, sparsely covered with white flat scales and a few hairs ; 



proboscis yellowish from base about two-thirds its length, the apical third 



dark brown, the whole sparsely covered with thin white flat scales ; the 



effect of the proboscis under the hand lens is not, however, of a band, the 



proximal part being merely of golden-brown tinge, and the distal part 

 darker; clypeus brown ; eyes dark blue-green. 



Thorax dark brown ; prothoracic lobes with a few white curved 

 scales ; mesonotum sparsely clothed with rather large white carved scales, 

 and some brown bristles, which do not, however, form any ornamentation 

 except for two tiny faint white submedian spots nearly 'midway of the 

 mesothorax, which only show in rather perfect specimens ; when denuded 

 there is a suggestion of a dark median line ; pleura dark brown, with 

 wln'te flat spatulate scales ; scutellum dark brown, the white curved scales 

 being grouped distinctly on the lobes, the interlobular part naked ; eight 

 long brown marginal bristles on mid and six on the side lobes, a few 

 lighter bristles above ; metanotum brown. 



Abdomen dark brown, with dark brown scales and white bands, 

 mostly basal, but sometimes very slightly apical, and in some specimens 

 develop into very narrow lateral spots, especially on the distal segments ; 

 occasional white scales scattered through the brown ; second segment 

 with a narrow median line, apical almost wholly white scaled ; apices and 

 sides of segments rather profusely supplied with light-coloured hairs ; 

 venter mostly white scaled. 



Legs : Coxse and trochanters all brown, with white scales ; femora 

 dorsally brown, scaled with a sprinkling of white scales, ventrally white, a 

 small light apical spot, but no ring as in anmilata : tibise and metatarsi 

 also brown, sprinkled with white, with small light apices ; first and second 

 tarsal joints in all the legs with narrow basal light (ochraceous)- spots not 

 always amounting to bands ; remainder of tarsi brown, excepi on the 

 hind legs, where sometimes the base of 3rd and 4th joints have a ^^vf 

 white scales, not noticeable with a hand-lens ; ungues large, simple and 

 equal. 



Wings brown ; costa, subcosta and first long veins heavily scaled 

 with long truncate scales, mostly brown, but s|)rink1ed with a few white 

 scales ; these are also found on the stem of the fifth ; the second, third, 

 fourth and sixth veins clothed with long, slender, brown scales ; lateral 

 scales narrowly lanceolate, median truncate but slender, aggregated so as 



