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chaetae bordering them with two projecting between the eyes; 

 clypeus blackish with large broad white loosely applied flat scales ; 

 proboscis clothed with small black scales, slightly hairy ; palpi light 

 brown clothed with black scales and a few fairly long dark brown 

 chaetae to the first and second segments, three-jointed, the second 

 longer than the first and third together, apical segment very small 

 and nipple-like; antennae blackish brown, fourteen-jointed, with 

 long black verticillate hairs and fairly densely covered with short 

 hairs on the internodes, basal half of second segment pale, basal 

 lobe brown covered with small dark scales on inner edge and pure 

 white ones beneath. 



Thorax brown clothed with dark brown narrow curved scales, 

 anterior margin with a thin border of pure white narrow curved 

 scales and dusky brown bristles, prealar bristles black, fairly dense 

 above the roots of the wings, a patch of white spindle-shaped 

 scales above the roots of the wings; prothoracic lobes prominent, 

 brown, clothed with brown narrow curved scales and white flat 

 ones with a few dusky brown bristles; scutellum brown clothed 

 with dusky flat scales and a few narrow curved ones at the base 

 of the lobes, mid lobe with six brown posterior border bristles, 

 lateral lobes with seven ; metanotum brown. 



Abdomen pale brown clothed with blackish scales, first segment 

 with numerous fairly long brown hairs, posterior border hairs short, 

 brown, those on the lateral edges of the fifth and sixth segments 

 moderately long and conspicuous, seventh segment with an apical 

 band of white scales, eighth with a few grey scales, last two segments 

 with numerous light brown hairs, segments three to seven with 

 white lateral spots; venter, first segment white scaled, segments 

 two to five white scaled with apical blackish brown bands expanding 

 laterally, segments six and seven white with apical and basal 

 blackish brown banding, last two segments creamy yellow, segments 

 six to apex fairly densely clothed with brownish hairs. 



Legs black, with steel blue reflections in some lights; coxae and 

 trochanters yellowish brown with numerous closely applied flat 

 white scales, the former with a line of brown chaetae ; femora 

 densely clothed with white flat scales beneath ; fore and mid ungues 

 unequal, each with a small tooth, hind equal, each uniserrate. 



Wings with the costa black, veins clothed with blackish scales, 

 border scales lanceolate and linear, median flat; first fork-cell 

 longer and narrower than the second fork-cell, base of the latter 

 nearer the base of the wing than that of the former; stem of the 

 first fork-cell about three-quarters the length of the cell, that of 

 the second fork-cell almost as long as its cell; posterior cross-vein 

 scarcely longer than the mid and nearly its own length distant 



