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PSEUDOTHEOBALDIA NIVEITAENIATA. n. 



sp. 



Head deep brown with golden scales ; proboscis unbanded ; 

 palpi of the $ clubbed, deep brown with three pale bands. 

 Thorax deep brown, ornamented with golden scales showing 

 somewhat linear arrangement ; scutellum with silvery scales. 

 Abdomen black with basal silvery- white bands. Legs deep 

 brown, unbanded, with yellow knee spot and traces of a pale 

 band on the fore femora. Wings with traces of spots of scales 

 at the base of the fork-cells and tinged at the end of the second 

 vein and cross-veins. 



$ . Head deep brown, with narrow-curved creamy scales in 

 the middle, dark brown ones at the sides, some paler ones 

 around the eyes, golden bristles in the middle in front, dark at 

 the sides ; proboscis rather long, deep blackish-brown ; palpi as 

 long as the proboscis, the apical segment broadly clavate and 

 shorter than the penultimate, the latter slightly swollen apically 

 with longish brown hairs on one side except at the apex, where 

 they are pale golden, and also at the base, there is a narrow 

 pale golden band at the base of the two apical segments and one 





Fig. 87. 

 Male genitalia of Psevdotheobaldia m'reitaeniata. 



on the long antepenultimate segment ; antennae banded deep 

 brown and grey with deep brown plume-hairs, basal segment 

 paler with large narrow-curved pale golden scales. 



