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proboscis blackish, the former about half the length of the 

 latter. 



Abdomen deep blackish brown with apical yellow semicircular 

 dorsal patches and white lateral spots which swell out apically. 



lyCgs brown, with traces of narrow pale basal banding. 

 5 . Head clothed with brownish flat scales and paler upright 

 forked scales behind and with creamy spindle-shaped scales placed 

 at right angles to the others around the eyes, palpi and proboscis 

 blackish brown, the former very nearl}^ half the length of the 

 proboscLs, this with dense scales at the base ; antennae brown, the 

 basal segment large with bright ochraceous scales. 



Thorax shiny black with narrow-curved bronzy and dull 

 ochreous scales with a well-defined area of creamy yellow scales 

 around the front and sides ; chsetse pale golden brown, especially 

 over the roots of the wings where they are somewhat darker ; scutel- 

 lum testaceous with fiat dusky brown and a few dull ochreous 

 scales; metanotum nude, chestnut-brown with a grey sheen in 

 places; pleurae brown to yellowish brown with numerous patches 

 of small fiat ochreous scales. 



Abdomen dusky black, each segment with a median apical 

 semicircular yellow patch, and with a lateral snowy white mark 

 which expands apically; hairs and border-bristles golden ; venter 

 pale ochreous. 



lyCgs deep brown, banded, femora pale at the base and 

 beneath ; traces of pale knee-spots ; fore legs with small yellowish 

 bands at the tibio-metatarsal joint, and at the junction of the 

 first tarsal and metatarsal and apex of the first tarsal ; in the mid 

 legs the bands are more confined to the base of the segments and 

 occur on the second tarsal also, in the hind legs extending to the 

 other two segments ; pale hairs on the tibiae. 



Wings with rather short fork-cells ; the first a little longer and 

 narrower than the second, its base a little nearer the apex of 

 the wing, its stem about two-thirds the length of the cell ; stem of 

 the second posterior cell nearly as long as the cell ; posterior cross- 

 vein about one-and-a-half times its own length from the mid ; scales 

 dense on the apical areas of the veins. 



Length 5 mm. 



&. Palpi long and thin, acuminate, no hair-tufts; longer 

 than proboscis by about the last segment, brown with three pale 

 yellow bands, the last two involving both sides of the segments ; 

 antenna? loosely plumose, plume-hairs brown, segments mostly 

 pallid except where the verticillate hairs unite and on the long 

 apical segments ; fore and mid ungues unequal, uniserrate. 



Length 5 mm. 



Habitat Lushai Hills, Assam \E. C. Macleod], 1,500 ft. 



Time of capture May. 



Observations. — Described from two ? ? and one cf . Two 

 hatched from larvae and one caught 1,500 ft. 



Closely ahied to Leicesteria longipalpis, but easily distinguished 

 by the apical abdominal yellow marks. 



