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running from the front to back of mesonotum ; and a small 

 golden-scaled area on each side. 



Abdomen black with basal white spots and a few white basal 

 scales. 



Legs deep brown, fore and mid unbanded, hind legs with 

 basal white bands to first and second tarsals only. 



<j> . Head deep brown with a median area of golden 

 narrow-curved scales, then flat black ones forming a lateral line 

 on each side, then flat golden scales shading into creamy-yellow 

 with a small area of dark scales on each side bordering the eyes, 

 a few small dark upright forked scales ; proboscis deep brown, 

 unbanded ; palpi deep brown, a few creamy apical scales ; 

 antennae deep brown, basal segment deep brown, pale inside. 



Thorax deep blackish with two parallel thin golden scaled 

 lines in the middle uniting behind into one line, which widens 

 out over the bare space in front of the scutellum ; a thin 

 golden line on each side running the whole length of the meso- 

 notum ending at the scutellum, and a small golden-scaled area 

 on each side of the meso thorax, the dark intervening spaces are 

 scantily clothed with narrow-curved deep bronzy-brown scales ; 

 scutellum with narrow-curved golden scales in the centre of the 

 mid lobe, small flat black ones at the sides, the lateral lobes with 

 narrow-curved golden scales, mid lobe with three large posterior 

 border-bristles ; metathorax deep brown ; pleurae brown with 

 one large silvery spot. 



Abdomen black, with basal silvery- white lateral spots and 

 the last two or three segments with traces of basal white bands ; 

 venter with many pale scales, the last three segments with broad 

 basal silvery bands. 



Legs deep brown, pale at base and ventral surface of femora, 



Fig. 57. 

 Wing of Hmvardina aurites. 9 • Theobald. 



fore and mid legs unbanded, the hind with a basal white band to 

 the first and second tarsals ; ungues equal and simple. 



Fork-cells small ; first sub-marginal longer and narrower than 



