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intermingled; the rest of the legs and upper surface of the 

 femora clad with dark brown or purple scales, according to the 

 direction of the light ; there is no banding of the legs nor any 

 suggestion of it. On the fore-legs there are a few yellow scales 

 on the apex of the tibiae. The fore and mid ungues equal and 

 uniserrated. Metanotum yellowish brown. 



Halteres with pale stems and black and white scales on 

 the knob. 



Abdomen covered with broad purple-brown scales ; no dorsal 

 banding, though the white lateral band spots almost meet over 

 the apices of the segments \ laterally there are conspicuous white 

 bands passing beneath upwards and backwards ; these bands are 

 shaped something like the mesial vertical section of an arm- 

 chair ; the scales forming them are bluish white (in dried 

 specimens they may change to a dirty yellow). 



$ . The lateral band of creamy scales on the head is broader 

 than in the female. The vertical bristles are pale golden. 

 Antennae pale brown, two last segments black and elongated. 

 Plumes long, dense and purple brown. Proboscis distinctly 

 enlarged for about one-third its length at the apex, black scaled. 

 Palpi slender, longer than the proboscis, scaled entirely, save for 

 a few white scales about the centre of the first apparent joint, 

 with dark purple-brown scales. Fore and mid ungues unequal, 

 the larger uniserrated. 



Length. — 4 • 5 mm. 



Habitat — Kuala Lumpur (Dr. Leicester)." 



Observations. — This species can easily be told by the great 

 length of the female palpi. I know of nothing approaching it in 

 this group. The pa]e apical abdominal spots often spread out to 

 form nearly complete bands. The type specimen sent me by 

 Dr. Leicester does not show the pale scaled line up to the base 

 of the w^ing on the mesothorax ; probably the specimen had been 

 slightly rubbed.— [F. V. T]. 



Genus MACLEAYA. Theobald. 



The Entomologist, Vol. XXXVI., p. 154 (1903). 



Head covered with flat scales over most of its surface, but 

 with a median line of narrow-curved scales. Palpi short in the 

 female, composed of three segments, with two basal constrictions ; 



