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Wings with short fork-cells, the first longer, but slightly nar- 

 rower than the second, its base slightly nearer the base of the 

 wdng, its stem two-thirds the length of the cell; stem of the 

 second as long as the cell ; posterior cross-vein about two-and-a- 

 half times its own length distant from the mid. 



Male genitalia very complex ; the clasper thick, long, ending 

 in a rounded knob, with a group of small curved hairs ; lateral 

 process at apex short, very thick and dark ; a blunt long, finger- 

 like process from near base of clasper ; on the inner corner of the 

 basal lobes four flat cheetse. 



Length 3*8 mm. 



9 . Verj'^ similar to the male, but rather more white scales in 

 front of the head, and the palpi smaller. 



The abdomen has some traces of basal white lateral spots and 

 the venter has some narrow apical black bands. Wings with the 

 first fork-cell slightly longer and about the same width as the 

 second, its stem about half the length of the cell ; stem of the 

 second rather more than half the length of the cell; posterior 

 cross-vein rather more than twice its own length distant from the 

 mid, some long lateral vein scales, the fifth long vein, except on its 

 upper branch, densely clothed with long thin scales. 



Length 3 mm. 



Habitat Dawna Hills, 2,000 — 3,000 feet, L. Burma {cf), and 

 jungle at base of Dawna Hills ( 2 ) {Annandale) . 



Time of capture i and 2 or 3-iii-o8. 



Observations. — Described from one <f and one 9 , practicalh^ 

 perfect, but with slightly rubbed thorax, A small obscure ^dine, 

 but at once told when examined microscopically by the complex 

 male genitalia and the long lateral scales along one side of the 

 fifth vein. 



61. Skusea pseudodiurna , sp. nov. 



Head dusky or pale according to the light. Thorax bright 

 reddish brown. Abdomen with basal white lateral spots. lyCgs 

 brown unbanded. 



cf . Head dark, clothed with a mixture of flat dusk}' and pale 

 grey scales and numerous dark upright forked scales and many 

 black chaetse projecting forwards; antennae with dark plume hairs, 

 and pale grey internodes, dusky at the tip; palpi very small, dark 

 brown; proboscis deep brown. Thorax bright deep reddish brown, 

 with scanty, scattered bronzy narrow-curved scales and with black 

 chsetse, especiall}^ thick over the roots of the wings; scutellum 

 testaceous with narrow-curved dull creamy and bronzy scales to 

 the mid lobe, dark ones to the lateral lobes ; metanotum bright 

 chestnut-brown . 



Abdomen black with basal white lateral spots, most promi- 

 nent on the last few segments, with pale brown border bristles ; 

 venter dusky. Legs uniformly deep brown, except the coxae and 

 venter of the femora which are pale ; fore and mid ungues unequal 

 and uniserrate ; hind equal and simple. Wings with short fork- 



