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of white clavate flat scales J scutellum testaceous, the median 

 portion of each lobe with flat, the interlobular parts and 

 posterior border with rather closely placed slender curved scales ; 

 the flat scales on the median lobe are brown, with a line of 

 yellow on each side, those on the lateral lobes are brown, the 

 curved scales are light sulphur yellow, fine bristles on median 

 lobe ; metanotum brown, bare. 



Abdomen light, covered with dark brown and yellow scales, 

 mostly yellow ; a broken median line of dark brown irregularly- 

 placed spots — i.e., sometimes apical, sometimes basal— extends 

 the whole length of the abdomen, and the ultimate segment has 

 an apical brown band, the broad yellow lateral stripe is 

 occasionally broken by a few brown scales, but the effect is 

 distinctly yellow ; yellow apical, lateral and central hairs \ venter 

 yellow, white, and brown ; there are well-marked tufts of long 

 brown scales on the median line of the venter on most of the 

 segments, but on the ultimate segment the tuft is yellow. These 

 scales are clavate and not dentate. A few white scales appear 

 in connection with the lateral (yellow) stripes, and the dorsal 

 basal white band on the ultimate segment is largely of white 

 scales. Claspers large, and there is a fan-shaped tuft of long 

 yellow spatulate scales just besides them on the ventral side. 



Legs all mottled ; coxae and trochanters testaceous with 

 white and brown scales, femora irregularly spotted with brown 

 and white scales, a few yellow ones also occur ; tibiae much 

 lighter, and mostly yellow scaled, a few brown scales in small 

 bunches giving the mottled look ; tarsi mostly yellow scaled, on 

 the hind legs there are tiny basal brown spots ; in the fore and 

 mid legs the brown scales are somewhat lighter and have no 

 definite arrangement, but the last tarsal on the fore legs are 

 mostly covered with these lighter brown scales. Ungues slightly 

 unequal, both uniserrate, hind ungues equal and simple. 



Wings very light and delicate and of a slightly yellowish 

 cast, covered with broad yellow and brown median and lateral 

 scales suggesting Taeniorhynchus scales ; the ventral scales are, 

 however, slender. The wing is apparently partly denuded, but 

 the apex is light, and there is a well-marked yellow costal spot 

 near the junction of the sub-costa and extending on the wing field 

 to the third longitudinal in the vicinity of the cross-veins ; there is 

 a small yellow spot on the costa interior to this, and the costa 

 is light continuously from the base of the wing nearly one-third 

 its length ; the fork-cells are small, nearly as small as those of 



