KEPORT OF THE ENTOJIOLOGIOAL SECTION 101 



" 1^ Head with large central area thickly clothed with large, loose, flat yellow scales, 

 gradually merging into smoky-yellow in front ; a narrow silvery-white, line to the anterior 

 half of the eyes, formed of a single series of broad, flat, closely appressed scales ; 

 between the marginal line and the central yellow patch is a broad band of brownish-black 

 scales from which anteriorly arise several upright forked scales ; nape with a few long, 

 thick, straight or slightly curved pale golden scales, on either side of w-hich is a group of 

 upright forked scales, intermixed black and yellow ; lower basal portion with flat dusky- 

 white scales, the marginal ones forming two dull silvery spots, sharply divided by a 

 dense black spot. Antennae black, nodes white ; hairs black, pubescence grey. 



"Palpi black; tips with long silvery-white scales. Thorax: prothoracic lobes with 

 flat silvery-white scales ; mesothorax with a well-defined median line and two lateral 

 spots of narrow-curved, golden-yellow scales ; anteriorly there are also two large spots 

 of flat silvery-white scales, and a few silvery-white scales on the lower margin of the 

 posterior yellow spots ; the rest of the mesothorax with rich dark brown scales ; scutellum 

 with flat silvery-white scales ; pleurae dark brown with two large patches of silvery scales. 



"Abdomen rich bronzy-brown; segments 1 to 6 each with a well-defined, narrow 

 basal band of smoky-yellow scales ; penultimate segment with a large lateral patch and 

 the terminal segment almost covered with brilliant metallic-silvery scales ; venter with 

 well-defined, more or less triangular patches of metallic-silvery scales narrowing towards 

 the apex, where they appear as two divergent lines ; the scales, forming the outer lateral 

 angles of the spots projecting at the sides of the abdomen, appearing as ouUtandinq scales. 



"Legs bronzy-blackish-brown; coxte and trochanters, ochreous ; anterior and mid 

 femora with scattered metallic-silvery scales ; hind femora with a central anterior band 

 and an apical group of silvery scales ; anterior and mid tarsi with narrow dull-white basal 

 bands to the first three segments, metatarsal band broadest ; hind tarsi with a broad white 

 basal band to the first, a narrow one to the second, and the third segment almost entirely 

 white above, basally it is not so. 



" Wings uniformly pale brown, rather densely scaled, first sub-marginal cell nuich 

 longer and slightly narrower than the second posterior." 



The wings show the following : — First fork-cell much longer and narrower than the 

 second fork-cell, its base nearer the base of the wing, its stem a little more than one-third 

 the length of the cell ; stem of the second fork-cell not quite as long as the cell, posterior 

 cross-vein longer than the mid, not quite twice its own length distant from it. 



J* Head with rather loose ochreous yellow scales becoming dusky and then black 

 except in the middle line, a patch of silvery-white scales on each side at the eye border, 

 numerous ochraceous forked scales along the nape becoming dusky in the middle. 

 Antennae black, with dull grey bands, dense black plumes, showing grey reflections at the 

 tip ; proboscis long, thin and black ; palpi as long as the proboscis, thin, black, a very 

 narrow white baud at the base of the apical and penultimate segments, a broad one in 

 the middle of the antepenultimate, last two segments nearly equal, a few black hairs on 

 each side of the penultimate, fewer on the apical segment, and a few on the apex of the 

 antepenultimate. 



Thorax as in ^, but the median yellow line and the lateral yellow-scaled spots more 

 pronounced. 



Abdomen unhanded, the segments with prominent silvery-white basal lateral spots ; 

 hairs black with golden sheen ; claspers apparently simple, basal lobes of genitalia long 

 and narrow. 



Fore and mid ungues unequal, simple ; hind equal and simple. 



