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head, pubescence on face of white hairs, with darker ones on cheeks. 

 Beard white. Palpi yellow with thick black pubescence, the first joint with 

 :ihe upper. angle produced, the third joint reddish with a small tooth, 

 dusting at its extreme apex. Forehead about ten times as long as 'it 

 is broad, and a third -narrower anteriorly, the frontal callus reddish 

 brown, long, narrow, not reaching the eyes: with a rather thick lineal 

 extension. Thorax brown covered with yellowish brown tomentum, 

 denuded, pubescence remaining is chiefly yellowish, on shoulders and 

 at sides chiefly black ; breast covered with greyish tomentum ScuteUum 

 similar to thorax. Abdomen fulvous, a little browner on the anterior 

 borders of third, fourth and fifth, and almost wholly blackish brown 

 on the last two segments, pubescence short, golden yellow, scanty, 

 thickest on the segmentations, black on the last two segments; under^ 

 side darker, reddish brown with paler under segmentations, appearing 

 banded on anterior segments, at apex wholly dark, pubescence golden 

 yellow only on segmentations, black elsewhere. Legs black, knees 

 and basal third of all the tibiae whitish with some yellow hairs, fore 

 coxae with pale hairs, elsewhere the pubescence is black. Wings 

 tinged yellow-brown on fore border, veins and stigma yellow. 



Male. The eyes have the upper two thirds occupied by the 

 large facets which reach beyond the apex of the frontal triangle and 

 to tlie. vertex, .but beyond the vertex they begin to recede, leaving a 

 gradually wider border of the small facets. Palpi yellow with black 

 hairs. Face covered with yellow tomentum and with: yellowish brown 

 hairs. Abdomen similar to that of female ; under side with blackish 

 bands which, almost entirely occupy the last five segments, the 

 segmentations fringed with yellowish pubescence, the seventh wholly 

 blackish. 



I have rid specimens, and the above description 'is from Ricardo's 

 statement. It is known to us that this .species ' occurs in Saigon, 

 Tongkinc: and Formosa. 



