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Legs blackish with faint traces of banding. Male palpi long 

 and thin, acuminate. 



2 . Head clothed with rather large flat dusky black scales, 

 creamy white ones at the sides, and some black ones below them 

 and then white again, a narrow band passing around the eyes and 

 some pale ones in the middle ; some long golden brown chsetse pro- 

 jecting forwards ; proboscis short, thick, swelling apically (but ac- 

 tual apex acuminate), twice curved, jet black, hairy ; palpi long 

 and thin, about two-thirds the length of the proboscis, the apical 

 segment very long, black, some pale scales below at the apex and 

 traces of others below at the base of the long segment; antennae 

 brown, basal segment with some fiat pale scales. 



Thorax shiny black clothed with long thin narrow-curved 

 bronzy brown scales, becoming broader behind, and with large 

 narrow^curved white scales in front and the sides, forming a white 

 border around the brown central area ; toward the roots of the 

 wings the white area is composed of large white fiat scales, and 

 some occur elsewhere passing on to the densely flat white-scaled 

 pleurse, which also bear a median patch of flat black scales ; pro- 

 thoracic lobes covered with flat white scales; chsetae scant}^, a patch 

 of golden brown much curved ones, in front of the roots of the 

 wings, rather short ; scutellum with flat dusky scales and some 

 paler ones, scales large ; metanotum nude, deep brown except at 

 the apex where it is reddish testaceous. 



Abdomen blackish, here and there the testaceous integument 

 shines through the scales, first two segments plain, third to eighth 

 with basal yellow scales, the third to fifth with median semi-circular 

 patches, the others with yellow basal bands, ver}^ broad on the last 

 two segments, laterally are large snowy white triangular patches, 

 the bases of the triangles towards the apices of the segments, but cut 

 off from them by narrow apical black-scaled lines, the corners of 

 the triangles show on the dorsum as white spots, from the third to 

 the seventh segments as almost apical spots; border-bristles dusky, 

 on the last five segments the white lateral spots are 3^ellow at the 

 base. 



Legs thick, black, paler below, white knee-spots and traces of 

 minute pale basal banding, chgetse on the femora and tibiae golden ; 

 fore and mid ungues simple, minutely uniserrate. 



Wing-scales dense, brown, a few pale ones near the base broad 

 and almost TiBniorhynchus-Wke in places, first submarginal cell 

 longer and narrower than the second posterior cell, its base nearly 

 level with that of the latter, its stem just a little longer than half 

 the length of the cell, stem of the second posterior cell not quite 

 two- thirds the length of the cell ; posterior cross- vein sloping to- 

 wards the base of the wing, twice its own length distant from the 

 mid ; the third long vein carried on as a very distinct pseudo- 

 vein to the base of the wing. 



Length 6 mm. 



(f . Head, thorax and abdomen much like the 5 , but the flat 

 white scales at the sides of the thorax more numerous and the 



