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with numerous long dark hairs and small reddish-brown scales, except for six 

 narrow longitudinal lines of white scales (Fig. 59D). Abdomen (Fig. 59B) : 

 Tergite I whitish scaled; tergites II and III, and occasionally IV, dark with 

 white basal bands, the basal band of II wide and often projecting medially 

 nearly to the rear margin of the segment; remaining tergites dark scaled dor- 

 sally. Venter clothed with mixed dark and pale scales, the dark ones predom- 

 inant apically. Legs: Vestiture of dark-brown and white scales; fore tarsi all 

 dark; mid-tarsi with base and apex of first segment and base of second segment 

 narrowly ringed with white; hind tarsi with segment 5 entirely white on one 

 side, all other segments broadly ringed with white apically and basally (rings 

 broadest on first and second segments, narrow on third and fourth). Wing: 

 Scales, broad, ovate, intermixed dark brown and white. 



ADULT MALE. — Coloration similar to that of female, terminalia (Fig. 

 59C). Eighth tergite (VIII-T) with posterior margin medially produced 

 tongue-like, overlapping the roundly emarginate anterior margin of the yiinth 



Fig. 59. Orlhopodomvia signifera (Coquillett). A, Hind leg. B. First and second 

 abdominal segments of female (tergites). C, Male terminalia. D. Scutum and scutellum. 



