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two narrow basal white bands. Thorax slaty grey in the 

 middle, deep brown on each side with pale scales. Abdomen 

 brown with pale creamy and ochreous scales and golden hairs. 

 Legs brown, speckled and banded with cream colour, tarsal 

 banding very minute on the brown hind legs. Wings with four 

 large costal spots, the two apical ones spread evenly on to the 

 first long vein, the second has two small spots under it on the 

 first vein and the third one. 



$ . Head densely clothed with upright white forked scales 

 in front, black ones behind ; a few white curved ones in front, 

 with a long irregular tuft of hair-like ones projecting forwards ; 

 antennae deep brown, with numerous small white scales and 

 hairs on the basal segments ; palpi brown, with two broad bands 

 towards the apex, and two narrow ones on the basal half, the 

 two broad ones separated only by a narrow black ring ; proboscis 

 black, pale at the apex. 



Thorax slaty grey in the middle, deep brown at the sides, 

 clothed with broad curved, rather flattened creamy scales ; pale 

 golden chaetae over the roots of the wings ; scutellum slaty grey, 

 paler at the sides, with similar scales to the mesothorax, and 

 brown border-bristles ; metanotum deep brown ; pleurae brown 

 with grey sheen and some flat creamy scales. 



Abdomen brown, with narrow-curved creamy scales, becoming 

 densest on the apical segment and with pale hairs. 



Legs brown, the femora and tibiae with yellow spots, the first 

 tarsals with three yellow spots, one apical, the second and third 

 tarsals with minute apical yellow bands ; the mid legs much the 

 same ; the hind with minute yellow apical bands to all the tarsals 

 but the last. 



Wings with four large black costal spots, and one or more 

 small basal ones ; the second and third about equal, the first 

 smaller, the fourth rather larger than the first ; the first and 

 second spread evenly on to the first long vein ; the third spreads 

 evenly on to the sub-costal, and only partly on to the first long 

 vein at its apical end, on two small spots ; the fourth unevenly 

 on to the first vein, the small basal one confined to the costa ; 

 most of the veins yellow scaled, a dark spot on the upper branch 

 of the first fork-cell just under the apical costal spot, a small 

 dusky patch on each side of the cross-vein ; the third with an 

 apical spot, and another on each side of the cross- vein ; two on 

 the upper, and two on the lower branch of the second fork-cell, 

 and many dark scales on the stem ; the upper branch of the fifth 



