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each side ; pleurae deep brown with three diverging grey lines 

 and some small white scales ; head black, with golden upright 

 forked scales and some short golden ones in front between the 

 eyes ; palpi densely scaled with brown and white bands. 

 Abdomen black with pale brown hairs and with long dense 

 lateral tufts of black and golden hairs. Legs deep brown, femora 

 and tibiae and to some extent the first tarsal with milk white 

 spots ; the fore and mid tarsals with the first two segments with 

 basal white bands and to some extent the other two ; in the hind 

 legs the apex of the first tarsal white, apical two-thirds of second 

 tarsal and all remainder, except apex of legs, black. Wings 

 with dense blackish-brown scales, costa with two very large 

 yellow areas, one basal and two small ones near the apex, the 

 smallest the second from the aj)ex. 



? Head black with long black upright forked scales behind, 

 golden ones in front, and short golden ones between the eyes ; 

 palpi densely scaled with black and with bands of white scales 

 and some yellow ones at the base ; proboscis black ; antennae 

 banded black and testaceous, basal segment testaceous, the second 

 with dense black scales. 



Thorax rich dark chestnut-brown with curved hair-like golden 

 scales, small flat pale creamy ones laterally and in front, a pale 

 narrow grey line on each side of the mesonotum due partly to 

 pale flat scales, partly to a grey sheen on the integument ; 

 prothoracic lobes deep testaceous with small flat narrow-curved 

 creamy scales ; scutellum deep brown with curved hair-like golden 

 scales ; metanotum deep brown ; pleurae deep brown with some 

 flat white scales and with frosty-grey lines, three prominent, 

 radiating from a central point. Abdomen steely black with short 

 pale brown hairs over the dorsum and with long black and golden 

 lateral hairs, the black in prominent apical tufts ; on the venter 

 are several prominent silvery-white spots forming lateral lines. 

 Fore-legs deep brown, femora and tibiae with white spots, a few 

 only on the femora and one prominent pale band, the tibiae 

 with six white spots, the first four tarsal segments with narrow 

 white basal bands ; mid legs as in the fore, but the femora with 

 more white spots ; hind legs with the spots still more numerous, 

 the first tarsal much longer than the tibia, black with a narrow 

 white apical band, apical two-thirds of the second tarsal white, 

 remainder white except the apical part of the foot. 



Wings with dense blunt lanceolate scales, mostly brown, but 

 some forming yellow spots ; costal border with a large yellow 



