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Macleaya tremula, n. sp. 



Head silvery grey, with two large prominent black patches ; pro- 

 boscis black, unhanded. Thorax deep brown, with indistinct dull 

 golden lines, the lateral ones over and in front of the roots of the 

 wings curved, and white-scaled prothoracic lobes ; pleurae testaceous 

 brown, with small white scales ; scutellum brown, with white and 

 black scales to the median lobe, white to lateral lobes. Abdomen 

 black, the segments with median, basal, and lateral basal spots, the 

 median creamy, the lateral white ; venter with basal creamy bands. 

 Legs black, the fore and the mid with narrow white basal bands to the 

 metatarsi and front tarsals ; the hind legs with a broad white basal 

 band to metatarsi and first and second tarsals, third tarsal all black, 

 fourth all white. Wings transparent. 



? . Head black, with flat black scales forming a large patch on 

 each side, then a small grey patch, another small black one, and then 

 more grey scales outside ; the middle of the head with silvery-white 

 narrow-curved scales, and a silvery- white line around the eyes ; 

 numerous small black upright forked scales over the occiput ; palpi 

 black with grey tips ; clypeus and proboscis black ; antennae black, 

 the base of the second joint bright testaceous, the second joint with 

 small grey scales. Thorax deep brown, covered with very small 

 narrow-curved bronzy-brown scales, with more or less pronounced 

 irregular lines of pale golden scales ; the line over and in front of the 

 root of each wing curved ; the golden scales are broader than the dark 

 ones ; on each side in front is a short line of white scales, and the pro- 

 thoracic lobes are covered with similar coloured scales ; in front of the 

 scutellum are irregular (often indistinct) short lines of larger pale 

 creamy scales, and some long backwardly projecting black ones ; scu- 

 tellum testaceous brown, the mid lobe with small flat grey scales in 

 the middle, black ones at the sides, the lateral lobes with narrow-curved 

 whitish ones ; border-bristles large and black, there are also very large 

 black ones on the mesonotum ; metanotum black ; pleurae brown, with 

 patches of flat grey scales. Abdomen black, the segments with basal 

 median creamy spots, and basal lateral silvery white ones ; the last 

 segment (sometimes the last two) without the median spot ; first seg- 

 ment testaceous, with black scales ; border-bristles jet-black ; venter 

 white at the base, some of the segments with basal white areas, the 

 apical segments black ; genitalia white-scaled. Legs black, banded ; 

 coxae pale, with patches of white scales, very long ; femora black above, 

 white ventrally ; knee spot white ; tibiaB black ; in the fore and mid 

 legs the metatarsi and first tarsal joints have narrow white basal 

 bands, last three tarsi black ; in the hind legs the metatarsi, first and 

 second tarsal segments have broad snowy-white basal bauds, the third 

 tarsal is all black, and the foarth all white ; ungues of all three pairs 

 of legs equal and simple. Wings with brown scales, the lateral scales 

 long and thin ; the first submarginal cell longer and narrower than 

 the second posterior cell, its base nearer the base of the wing, its stem 

 less than half the length of the cell, stem of the second posterior cell 

 as long as the cell ; posterior cross-vein longer than the mid, about 

 one and half times its own length distant from it ; first longitudinal 



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