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Wings shorter than the thorax and abdomen together, deeply 

 inftimate but paler on the posterior part and at the extreme apex, and some- 

 what paler about the centres of cells, with the veins and stigma blackish 

 brown but some veins partly or wholly more blackish ; costal cell 

 somewhat tinged with yellowish, posterior cells all widely open, discal 

 cell moderate in size and apparently longer than the first posterior 

 cell, and the anal cell closed with a somewhat long petiole ; upper 

 branch of the cubital fork without the recurrent veinlet. Squamae in 

 the alar pair 'dark grey with a conspicuous blackish brown margin and 

 a. rather conspicuous dark brown fringe of rather stout and dense short 

 pubescence, excepting of dense moderately long whitish tuft about the 

 angle ; in the thoracal pairs yellowish brown with a comparatively broad 

 brown margin and with a 1 less conspicuous and dense, brownish ciliatiou. 



Legs blackish with the extreme tip of the femora and the 

 tibiae reddish yellow ; front coxae densely covered with a grey tomentum 

 and bearing abundant long whitish soft pubescence which becomes 

 short towards the apex at where there are some short stout black 

 hairs on the outer side ; front femora, tibiae and tarsi wanting., but 

 according to Miss Ricardo's description the tibiae at the basal half 

 reddish yellow ; middle femora slightly covered with a greyish dust, 

 bearing numerous short black pubescence which is more or less inter- 

 mixed with pale hairs, and on the underside there is a rather long 

 conspicuous fringe composed of whitish and black hairs ; hind femora 

 haired as in the middle pair, but all the hairs rather longer especially 

 on the dorsal margin; middle tibiae gradually but slightly darkened 

 towards the tip, covered with abundant rather dense short depressed 

 black pubescence, and bearing two unequal blackish apical spurs ; hind 

 tibiae haired as in the preceding pair, but bearing two rather conspicuous 

 short black dorsal fringes ; posterior two pairs of tarsi brownish black, 

 covered with dense short depressed black bristles, and their soles not 

 paler ; claws shining black with the extreme base rather reddish 

 brown ; pulvilli dull orange yellow. 



