Genus Macleaya. 205 



of pale golden scales ; the line over and in front of the root of 

 each wing curved ; the golden scales are broader than the dark 

 ones ; on each side in front is a short line of white scales and the 

 prothoracic lobes are covered with similar coloured ones ; in front 

 of the scutellum are irregular (often indistinct) short lines of 

 larger pale creamy scales, and some long backwardly projecting 

 black ones ; scutellum testaceous-brown, the mid lobe with small 

 nat grey scales in the middle, black ones at the sides, the lateral 

 lobes with narrow-curved whitish ones ; border-bristles large and 

 black, there are also very large black ones on the mesonotum ; 

 metanotum black ; pleurae brown, with patches of flat grey 

 scales. 



Abdomen black, the segments with basal median creamy 

 spots, and basal lateral silvery white ones ; the last segment 

 (sometimes the last two) without the median spot ; first segment 

 testaceous, with black scales ; border-bristles jet black ; venter 

 white at the base, some of the segments with basal white areas, 

 the apical segments black ; genitalia white scaled. 



Legs black, banded ; coxae pale with patches of white scales, 

 very long ; femora black above, white ventrally ; knee spot 

 white ; tibiae black ; in the fore and mid legs the first tarsal and 

 second tarsal segments have narrow white basal bands, last three 

 tarsals black ; in the hind legs the first, second and third tarsal 

 segments have broad snowy-white basal bands, fourth tarsal ail 

 black, the fifth all white ; ungues of all three pairs of legs equal 

 -and simple. 



Wings with brown scales, the lateral scales long and thin ; 

 the first sub-marginal cell longer and narrower than the second 

 posterior cell, its base nearer the base of the wing, its stem less 

 than half the length of the cell, stem of the second posterior cell 

 as long as the cell; posterior cross-vein longer than the mid, 

 •about one and a half times its own length distant from it ; first 

 longitudinal vein and the sub-costal densely scaled with large 

 dark brown spatulate scales ; fringe brown ; base of the wing 

 pale ; halteres pale ochreous. 



Length. — 4*5 mm. 



£. Palpi black scaled, apical segments white, base of 

 penultimate segment white, also apex of ante-penultimate, a 

 small pale band about the middle of the long ante-penultimate 

 segment, a few prominent black bristles on the last two segments, 

 not forming regular hair-tufts, a distinct black spine at the apex 

 of the ante-penultimate segment ; the apical segment about half 



