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flat creamy white scales on the inner surface, the verticillate 

 hairs brown, the internodal pubescence pale. 



Thorax rich brown with a narrow dark median line and 

 traces of sub-median dark lines, the middle area of thorax 

 clothed with narrow-curved bright rich golden brown scales, the 

 sides with pale creamy scales, the pale scaled areas narrowing 

 posteriorly but sending a narrow line of pale scales towards the 

 scutellum, many pale scales around the bare space in front of 

 the scutellum ; scutellum pale brown with narrow-curved pale 

 scales and pale golden border-bristles ; pleurae brown with 

 patches of flat white scales ; metanotum bright brown. 



Abdomen dark brown, with distinct pale creamy basal bands 

 which vary in form, some are prolonged medianally, in others 

 laterally, the bands on the sixth and seventh segments occupy 

 half and three-fourths respectively of the segments on the 

 dorsum ; apical segment may be all pale scaled ; venter mostly 

 pale scaled but with a median dark line which is much broken, 

 and a dusky patch at the posterior corners of each segment. 



Legs with the femora and tibiae with black and creamy 

 scattered scales, the former pale at the base, both segments with 

 many pale scales ventrally. The femora have many more pale 

 scales than the tibiae, the fore, mid, and hind first tarsals with 

 basal white bands, the next three tarsals of the fore and mid and 

 all the hind tarsals with basal white bands, most prominent in 

 the hind legs • ungues all equal and uniserrate. 



Wings with brown scales with scattered creamy ones ; first 

 sub-marginal cell longer and narrower than the second posterior 



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cell, its stem about two-thirds the length of the cell, its base 

 about level with that of the second posterior cell. 



Posterior cross-vein a little less than its own length distant 

 from the mid cross-vein. 



