GENUS MUCIDUS 347 



"Abdomen with dense scales, which stand out and give it a ragged 

 appearance. 



" Wings covered with broad pyriform scales, many of which are parti- 

 coloured. Palpi of the ? half as long as the proboscis ; antennae four- 

 teen jointed, including the basal joint ; palpi of the S' five-jointed, a 

 little longer than the proboscis. Wings with the venation much as in 

 Cidex, but the posterior cross-vein is nearer the apex of the iving than 

 the mid cross-vein. 



"Legs banded, densely scaled with projecting scales; fore and mid 

 ungues of the $ unequal, the larger with two, the smaller with one 

 tooth ; hind ungues equal, small toothed ; in the $ all the ungues are 

 small, equal, thick, and with a short thick tooth." 



Five species are at present known, which he tabulates as 

 below : — 



A. Proboscis with ochreous and yellow scales — no 

 white apical band. 



o. Wing fringe with 8 pale yellow spots 



P. Stem of second posterior cell shorter than 



the cell 1 altei-nans. Westw. 



^^. Stem of the second posterior cell longer 



than the cell 2 scataphagoides. n. sp. 



a. Wing fringe with 7 pale spots 3 muddies, Karsch. 



oo. Wing fringe with 5 pale spots 4: Africanus. n, sp. 



AA. Proboscis white banded at apex 5 laniger. Wied. 



1. MUCIDUS ALTERNANS (Westwood). 



Plate xii, fig. 2, Wing of 2 . 



= C. alternans, Westwood. = C. commovens, Walker. = C. hispidosus, 



Skuse. 



(Ann. See. Ent. Fr. iv, p. 681, and Trans. Eut. See. Lend, iii, p. 384 ; Ins. 

 Saund, Dipt. p. 432, Walker ( = C. commovens) ; Trans. Linn. See. 

 N.S. Wales, p. 1726 [1891], Skuse = C. hispidosus.) 



Wings brindled yellowish and brown, with a not very sharply 

 defined lighter band across the wing at the level of the fork- 

 stems, extending from the costa to V ; their internal fringe with 

 eight each, of alternate black and pale yellow lengths of almost 

 equal size. Proboscis deep ochre and pale yellow scaled. Stem 

 of hinder fork shorter than its cell. 



Of a general mouldy appearance. Head brown, with median and 

 lateral patches, and the orbits white scaled. Palpi, J , nearly half as long 

 as proboscis, brindled so as to be dark at the base and nearly entirely 

 white-scaled at their tips, those of <? but little longer than the proboscis, 

 with a tuft of long, silky hairs at the extremity, and a very strong tuft 

 from the side of the third joint, the two basal joints each as long as 



