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scales are outstanding, but scanty in number; proboscis deep 

 brown, labellae bright yellowish brown, long and thin. 



Thorax slaty grey, deep brown at the sides, the grey median 

 area with some minute black specks, and showing longitudinal 

 darker lines in some lights, the whole clothed with white spindle- 

 shaped scales irregularly disposed, a tuft of long white scales in 

 front projecting over the head ; scutellum dark in the middle, 

 pale at the sides, with similar white scales to the mesonotum ; 

 metanotum deep brown ; pleurae showing longitudinal paler and 

 darker lines. 



Abdomen deep brown, fairly densely clothed with irregularly 

 disposed creamy yellow scales and with pale golden hairs; no 

 lateral tufts. Legs deep brown, speckled and banded with white 

 and yellow as follows : — All the femora and tibiae much spotted 

 with white ; fore first tarsal with three white spots and a white 

 apex, second and third tarsals basally and apically white, last two 

 black ; in the mid legs the first tarsal has many white spots and 

 a white apex, and the next two tarsals have a white apex only ; 

 in the hind legs the first tarsal has several large and some small 

 white spots, the next three tarsals with broad apical and basal 

 white bands, the last all white ; ungues small equal and simple. 



Wings with four large and two or three small basal costal 

 spots, the apical one reaches evenly on to the first long vein, and 

 is about the same size as the white area, separating it from the 

 next spot ; the second black spot is twice as long as the first, and 

 also spreads evenly on to the first long vein ; the third is the 



Fig. 24. 

 Wing of Neocellia dudgeonii. (9.) n. sp. 



largest, and has two white spots on the first long vein, otherwise 

 spreading evenly on to it ; the fourth not quite as long as the 

 second, and spreads evenly on to the first long vein, while the 

 two basal ones are small and confined to the costa ; there are 

 dark scales on the upper branch of the first fork-cell under the 

 apical costal spot, a few dusky scales near its base, some on the 



