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of the wing. End of the subcosta not quite so far advanced as the end of the 

 postical nervure. Radius forked distinctly beyond the pobrachial fork, but con- 

 siderably before the end of the axillar nervure ; its stem inserted in the anterior 

 basal cell at a distance from the cell's end subequal to the cell's apical width. Stem 

 of the pobrachial nervure short, equal to the difference in length of the two basal 

 cells ; its proportion to the stem of the radius not ascertainable with exactitude 

 from wings in situ. Hair of the disc thin, dark greyish-brown, shifting with change 

 of posture to a warmer subfuligineous brown ; the margin bordered with a narrow 

 brown line, interrupted at the endings of all the nervures, except the axillar and 

 prsebrachial, by small white hair-spots. In the region of bristling hair, when the 

 wing is viewed edgewise away from the light, the hairs shift to whitish ; and at the 

 outer edge of this region an angulated series of small white hair-spots spreading 

 outwards becomes apparent, pointing towards the apex of the wing, the spots placed 

 singly on the radial branches and cubitus, and on the pobrachial branches, the 

 postical and the axillar nervure, with the most salient angle at the cubitus ; the spot 

 on the posterior pobrachial, much smaller than the others, stands inwards a little 

 out of rank. Within the same region, near the forks, are two small blackish hair- 

 spots, one on the anterior radius nearly opposite the other on the posterior pobrachial 

 nervure. Fringes concolorous with the hair of the disc, glossy, and from certain 

 standpoints varied faintly with dull whitish in close proximity to some of the while 

 marginal spots ; costal fringe dense, varying in hue with change of posture, at the 

 base of the wing, in correspondence with the bristling hair, the darker colour 

 lingering at the roots of the fringe. Legs densely clad with fuligineous hair, espe- 

 cially the posterior pairs, and adorned with snow-white scales ; the tibia and the 

 first four joints in the tarsus dorsally strongly fringed, and the tarsal fringe densely 

 loaded with black scales, glossed at their extreme tips with dull whitish ; the snow- 

 white markings are — some scales at the knee; some scattered scales interspersed 

 among the hairs on the exposed side of the tibia, and a narrow edging of imbricate 

 scales at the tip ; a similar edging at the tip of the first tarsal joint ; also, in the 

 fore tarsus, some scales at the tips of the next three joints clear of the fringe ; also, 

 on the intermediate tarsus, a very small dorsal spot at the base of the first joint. 



Frons and palpi clad in fuligineous. Scales on the two basal joints of the an- 

 tennae fuligineous ; flagellum brownish, with light brownish-grey hair, shifting to 

 whitish-grey. Pubescence of the vertex and notum dense, and up to the wings 

 light brownish-grey, shifting to brownish-white ; that between the wings, from 

 certain standpoints, light fuligineous-brown, followed on the 1st abdominal segment 

 with long erect hair matching in colour that of the wiug-roots and alulae. Dorsum 

 of abdomen very densely pubescent with upstanding hair (shorter than that on the 

 1st segment), which remains light fuligineous-brown at the roots, but shifts with 

 change of posture to light brownish-grey and whitish in its upper parts ; last seg- 

 ment with whitish pubescence; sides and venter with fuligineous hair. 



Length of wing, 3'5 mm. 



Hah. : Delagoa Bay, two ? described (Brit. Mas.). A third 

 specimen offered to the Museum in 1891, but there no longer, was 

 labelled Kingarni Eiver, German East Africa. 



London : Atuiust, 1894. 



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