Genus Danielsia. 241 



Danielsia albotaeniata. Leicester (1904). 



The Entomologist, Vol. XXXVII., p. Ill (1904). 



Thorax with the anterior half with shiny white scales, 

 remainder brown, a lateral brown spot on each side of the 

 silvery anterior area. Abdomen brown, with basal white bands. 

 Hind legs broadly pale-banded basally ; fore and mid with 

 indistinct pale bands to the first and second tarsals. 



? . Head black with frosty tomentum. There is a bare line 

 down the centre, with a few narrow-curved scales on either side 

 of it. Outside this, behind and in front, between the eyes, the 

 head is thickly clad with broad spatulate scales slightly brown- 

 tinged. There is an oblong spot parallel with the orbital margin 

 of broad black scales, laterally white flat scales, then another 

 small spot of black scales. Behind these are numerous upright 

 forked scales, mostly black, with 



- a few light brown ones. On the /^^f^S~^S^T\ *\ 

 apex, between the eyes on either /^^TOW^^S^^ffi^^^ n 



side three bristles, light brown ^^^^H^\M^MitmlQ^ v J 



at the base, black at the apex, jj- ■ 

 project forwards ; more laterally 

 there are three other bristles and 



th t Fig ' 72 ' 



Cephalic and scutellar adornment 



Antennae with the basal seg- of a Danielsia. 



ment muddy brown with a dusky 



hue, clad with white scales on its inner surface ; second segment 

 muddy at its base, black at the apex, clad with longish black 

 scales ; remaining segments black, pale at the nodes, verticillate 

 hairs black ; silky- white hairs on the internodes. Palpi four- 

 jointed, the two first segments round and small, the third 

 somewhat swollen, the fourth longer than the third, fifth very 

 minute and nipple-like, thickly covered with black scales, with a 

 few long black bristles. Proboscis covered with black scales, 

 except for one-fourth its length in the middle, clad with creamy 

 scales. Clypeus rounded and black. Prothoracic lobes prominent, 

 upper surface covered with broad white scales. Mesonotum dark 

 brown. In front of the wing bases the mesonotum is entirely 

 clad with silky white scales, except for a small notch of bronzy 

 scales on either side. The white scaling has much the appearance 

 of an inverted Y with a very thick stem, and there are white 

 scales on the lateral margin. At the root of the scutellum is a 



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