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similar hair, proximal joint dark grey, terminal joint cream- 

 buff, bluntly lanceolate in outline, not curved; first and 

 second joints of antenna clothed with short blackish hair, 

 first joint with a dark brown longitudinal streak on outer 

 side of distal half, second joint dark brown at extreme tip 

 (third joint missing in specimens available for examination). 

 Thorax : dorsum marked with three greyish olive-brown and 

 four smoke-grey longitudinal stripes, and also with a small, 

 elongate, dark grey streak on each side above base of wing ; 

 pleurae light grey, clothed with whitish hair ; dorsum, in- 

 cluding scutellum, clothed with short yellowish hair ; scutet- 

 lum cinnamon-rufous, its base marked with a transversely 

 elongate greyish olive-brown spot, not extending to sides. 

 Abdomen : dorsum of first segment with a clove-brown 

 median area beneath scutellum, not or scarcely reaching hind 

 margin ; dorsum of second segment with a small, rounded, 

 greyish olive-brown or blackish spot in middle line near 

 front margin ; darker bands on dorsum extending to sides in 

 case of third and fourth segments, band on fifth segment 

 sometimes reaching sides, bands on second and last two 

 segments not extending to sides ; bands on third and following 

 segments in each case in contact with front margin through- 

 out their extent, band on second segment in contact with 

 front margin in middle line, but curving away from it 

 towards each side; paler areas on dorsum, including poste- 

 rior angles and hind margin of first segment, anterior angles 

 of second segment, hind borders of second to sixth segments 

 inclusive, and posterior median triangles on second to fifth 

 segments inclusive clothed with minute, glistening, appressed, 

 yellowish hairs ; darker areas of dorsum clothed with minute, 

 appressed, blackish hairs ; venter buff, clothed with minute, 

 appressed, yellowish hairs, second segment sometimes with a 

 small, dark, median spot, similar to that on dorsum of same 

 segment. Wings : mummy-brown costal border deeper 

 towards base of wing, and including, besides base of wing 

 itself, proximal extremities of first and second basal cells ; 

 stigma when seen against a light background cinnamon or 

 tawny-ochraceous ; proximal margin of transverse band 

 commencing on a level with base of third longitudinal vein, 

 approximately straight, distal margin of transverse band 

 commencing halfway between distal extremity of stigma and 

 proximal end of apical blotch, notched, sending out a projec- 

 tion to base of fork of third longitudinal vein, and also 

 indented below distal extremity of discal cell ; transverse 

 band terminating in distal extremity of anal cell ; costal 

 border indented in marginal cell by upper extremity of a 



