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Thorax deep brown, with narrow-curved bright golden scales, 

 placed so as to present slight linear arrangement, rather broad paler 

 ones over the roots of the wings-; chaetae partly golden, partly 

 brown ; scutellum deep brown, clothed with silvery-white flat 

 scales, six large golden brown border-bristles to the mid lobe, 

 slightly darker ones on the lateral lobes, some long flat broad 

 ones of paler hue before the scutellum \ metanotum deep brown ; 

 pleurae deep brown, with silvery-white flat scales and a small 

 patch of flat creamy scales. 



Abdomen deep blackish-brown, eaeh segment with a basal 

 silvery white band ; venter silvery-white ; hairs of the body 

 flaxen. 



Legs deep blackish-brown, with a yellow knee spot and a spot 

 at the apex of the tibiae and another towards the apex of the fore 

 femora ; fore and mid ungues unequal, the larger with two teeth, 

 the smaller with one, hind ungues equal and simple. 



Wings with brown scales which are denser at the base of the 

 fork-cells and at the cross-veins and the base of the second long- 



Fig. 88. 

 Wing of Pseudotheobaldia niveitaeniata. <jT. n. sp. 



vein, where the wing membrane is faintly stained brown ; first 

 sub-marginal cell a little longer and slightly narrower than the 

 second posterior cell, its base nearer the apex of the wing, its 

 stem as long as the cell ; stem of the second posterior cell as 

 long as the cell ; supernumerary and mid cross-veins in one line, 

 the posterior just in front of the mid and, like it, longer than the 

 supernumerary ; scales of Gulex form. 



Genitalia with long narrow basal lobes and long thin slightly 

 curved simple claspers, ending on a short small segment. 



Length. — 6 mm. 



Time of capture. — February to March. 



Habitat. — Dehra Dhoon, India (Capt. Thomson). 



Observations. — Described from two perfect males. At first 



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