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men, the latter clothed with a mass of white filaments forming a 

 white tufted tail General form that of larva, with head arcuate 

 behind; wing-covers swelling out on sides, abdomen broad and 

 rounded to tip. 



Imago. — Length 0045, antennae 0025 inch. 



General colour greyish-brown to light ochreous, mottled and 

 marbled with darker brown; antenna3 black from third basal 

 segment; abdomen bright yellow, apical margin of basal and 

 whole of apical segments black; wings opaque, clouded with a 

 greyish tint, thickly mottled with light brown, forming an 

 irregular pattern towards apical edge: nervures light brown. 

 Head narrow, rounded in front, slightly cleft in centre, rounded 

 to eyes, with a slight median suture and small rounded fovea on 

 either side, deeply arcuate behind. Face lobes broad at base, 

 short, coming to a point at apex. Antennae rather short, spring- 

 ing out in front of eyes; 1st joint short, broad; 2nd short; 3rd 

 longest; 4th-9th of uniform length; 10th short, slightly thickened 

 at tip. Eyes very large, prominent, semiglobular: central ocellus 

 small, at base of median suture; lateral ocelli large, close to hind 

 margin of eyes. Thorax : pronotum rounded in front, arcuate 

 behind, with extremities rounded, and marked with a dark spot; 

 dorsulum broad, slightly depressed on either side of front margin, 

 coming to a point at extremities, hind margin irregularly rounded; 

 mesonotum large, deeply arcuate in front, coming to a point on 

 extremities, rounded behind; scutellum arcuate in front, rounded 

 behind. Legs short, femora stout and rounded; tibise short; 

 tarsi small. Wings nearly twice as long as broad, narrow at 

 base, curved on costal margin to broad rounded tip; primary 

 stalk long, curving upward; stalk of subcosta long, subcostal 

 nervure turning up and forming a stout opaque stigma; radius 

 short, curving downwards, not reaching tip of wing; stalk of 

 cubitus short, upper branch curving upward, then down; upper 

 fork turning upward at tip, lower fork downward, each of about 

 equal length; lower branch of cubitus short, not as long as lower 

 fork, upper fork curving upwards, rounded to extremity; clavus 

 short, slender; clavical suture long, slender. Abdomen short, 



