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with dark and creamy scales ; proboscis mostly ochreous scaled, witli a few scattered 

 dark scales, the apical region black ; antennis brown. 



Thorax black, densely clothed with bright golden-brown narrow-curved scales, except 

 for tw'o creamy lines running nearly the whole length of the thorax and widest in front ; 

 scales in front of the scutellum much paler; traces of brighter scaled lines also laterally 

 in some specimens ; scutellum with pale creamy scales ; chsette bright reddish to golden- 

 brown ; metanotum bright brown ; pleurie brown with flat white scales. 



Abdomen brown, mostly clothed with ochreous and white scales, the latter form 

 a median line and a large patch either median or basal laterally, the ochreous ones 

 more confined to the apical borders of the segments, the dark scales form more or 

 less marked dorsal lateral dark areas, but pale scales may be dotted about over these ; 

 basal segment with two tufts of flat white scales ; venter mostly creamy scaled. 



Legs with the femora ochreous, with a few scattered black scales ; femora dark brown 

 with scattered white scales above, mainly ochreous with a few dusky scales below ; first 

 tarsals with more dark scales, in the fore and mid legs there is a jjale band involving 

 both sides of the first and second tarsals, and another involving the joint between the 

 second and third tarsals, rest dark scaled ; in the hind legs the bands are wider and extend 

 to all the joints, the last tarsal being pure white ; ungues on all the legs equal and 

 uniserrate. 



Wings with the majority of the scales pale creamy, some bright ochreous ones on the 

 costa and first long vein and some scattered black ones here and there on the other 

 veins ; fork-cells short, the first sub-marginal longer and narrower than the second 

 posterior cell, its base nearer the apex of the wing than that of the second posterior 

 cell, its stem about three-fourths the length of the cell ; stem of the second posterior 

 about two-thirds the length of the cell ; mid cross-vein longer than the supernumerary 

 or posterior, the latter about its own length distant from the mid ; halteres with slightly 

 fuscous apex clothed with grey scales and a dark line on the ochreous stem. 



Length, 3 to 4 mm. 



$ Palpi straw-coloured, a narrow dusky band at the apex of the penultimate and 

 antepenultimate segments and some dusky scales at the apex, apical segment shorter 

 than the penultimate ; hair-tufts moderate, flaxen. Antennae with flaxen hairs. 



Abdomen with basal grey bands and most of the apical segments grey scaled. 

 Genitalia with rather long, narrow basal lobes, long claspers curved apically with long 

 terminal spine ; harpes prominent, curved, broadened at the middle. Ungues of fore 

 and mid legs unequal, uniserrate ; hind ungues equal and simple. 



Length, 4-5 to 5 mm. 



Time of capture. — -June. 



Hahitat. — Kafr-el-Dawar, Egypt (F. Wilcocks) ; Zeidab, Sudan (H. H. King). 



Ciilex ti^iripes Cidex tigripes, Grandpre, var. bimacnlatn, Theobald 



M07io. Citlicid. v., p. 393 (1910) 

 Legs with marked lines of creamy spots as in type. Thorax with two pronounced 

 median small pale spots, a pale scaled line from each, running backwards, also a pale 

 scaled median spot near the head, an indistinct one on each side and some pale scales 

 over the wings. Abdomen with the second to fifth segments dark with narrow yellow 

 apical bands, the second to fourth each with two nearly median yellow spots ; remaining 

 apical area golden-yellow. 



ffafci'fa^— Meshra-el-Zeraf (H. H. King). 



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