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$ . Head deep brown with white upright forked scales in 

 the middle in front, black ones at the sides ; proboscis deep 

 brown ; palpi deep brown, with two broad white bands and a. 

 narrow black apex and a third narrow white band towards the 

 base, the two broad white bands are of nearly equal width and 

 involve both sides of the joints. 



Thorax slaty grey, with frosty sheen in the middle, deep at 

 the sides, clothed irregularly with large pale creamy-white 

 spindle-shaped flattish scales, which spread on to the scutellum, 

 a white scaled tuft over the back of the head ; chaetae brown, 

 golden over the roots of the wings ; metanotum brown ; pleurae 

 brown with slaty grey sheen in places. 



Abdomen deep brown clothed with a number of flattish 

 rather spindle-shaped scales of creamy hue over all the segments, 

 irregularly disposed, and with short golden hairs. 



Legs deep brown, the femora, tibiae and first tarsals of all the 

 legs spotted with white, the fore legs with an apical white band 

 on first tarsal and an apical white spot on the second and third 

 tarsals, last two all dark ; in the mid leg these markings are 

 absent ; in the hind legs there are broad apical and basal white 

 bands, the last tarsal being all white ; ungues small, equal and 

 simple. 



"Wings with six black costal spots, the apical one small, the 

 second large, but not so large as the third, the fourth smaller 

 than the second, the fifth and sixth small ; the apical one and 

 the second spread evenly on to the first long vein, the second is 

 broken by two white spots on the first long vein, the fourth 



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Fig. 23. 

 Wing of Neocellia indica. 



n. sp. 



spreads evenly over the sub-costal on to the first vein, the fifth 

 and sixth are confined to the costa ; the apical spots spread on 

 to the upper branch of the first fork-cell as a larger black area, 

 another small one near its base, an apical small and another 

 larger one on the lower branch ; the greater part of the stem is 



