Genus Danielsia. 247 



Danielsia tripunctata. n. sp. 



Head creamy yellow ; palpi and proboscis brown. Thorax 

 brown with pale golden scales on the anterior region, brown on 

 each side in front, deep brown ones behind. Abdomen deep 

 brown with a median basal creamy elongate triangular spot 

 on each segment and a small basal lateral one on each side. 

 Legs with pale bands, except on last tarsal. Fork-cells of 

 moderate length ; stem of first sub-marginal one-third the length 

 of cell. 



9 . Head clothed with flat creamy yellow and ochreous 

 scales, creamy narrow-curved ones behind and extending to 

 some extent forwards in the middle line, dusky and ochreous 

 flat ones at the sides, thin ochreous forked scales in front, 

 thicker ones behind, with some dark brown and deep brown 

 chaetae ; palpi, clypeus, and proboscis deep brown ; antennae 

 deep brown, basal segment and base of the second segment 

 deep testaceous. 



Thorax deep shiny blackish-brown, clothed with narrow- 

 curved long scales mainly directed backwards, those of the 

 anterior region golden, except for a patch on each side in front, 

 those on the basal half bronzy-brown, paler in front of the space 

 in front of the scutellum ; chaetae over the roots of the wings 

 deep brown and black ; scutellum deep brown with narrow- 

 curved pale creamy scales ; metanotum deep brown ; pleurae 

 brown with flat white scales. 



Abdomen deep brown with creamy yellow median basal 

 triangular patches which extend across the whole length of the 

 antepenultimate segment and over most of the last two, a pure 

 white basal spot on each side of the segments ; basal segment 

 ochreous with a median patch of flat scales white at base, a 

 white row running to the edge of the segment, a black spot on 

 each side of it, and long golden bristles ; posterior border-bristles 

 pale golden ; venter pale creamy. 



Legs brown, pale basally ; in the front pair the first tarsals 

 have a basal pale band and the rest pale bands involving both 

 sides of all the joints; in the mid legs the bands are not so 

 prominent and are absent on the last segment ; in the hind legs 

 the last segment is also apparently devoid of a band ; fore and 

 mid ungues equal and uniserrate, hind simple. 



Wings densely scaled ; first fork-cell longer and narrower 

 than the second posterior, its base very slightly nearer the base 



