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Description of the Adult. 



Female (Figure 3). — Measures 4.5 — 5 mni.,=.18 — .20 of an inch 

 in length, excluding the prohoscis, which is about half the length of 

 the body. The occiput is clothed with yellowish scales and a few 

 dark brown ones intermixed; the antennse are brown, the basal joint 



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Fig. 3. 



Cukx pcdlidohirta Grcsib. : female adult ; enlarged. Original. 



and basal half of following one dirty yellow; the proboscis is brown 

 with whitish scales scattered over the surface, save at the apical 

 fourth; the palpi are four-jointed, brown, tipped with silvery- white. 

 the apical joint minute, flattened and slightly spiny. The dorsum of 



