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creamy scales, the first forming a broad nearly parallel-sided 

 median area, two small lateral patches in front; which, however, 

 are really covered with pale scales, but appear as dark areas, and 

 two long lateral ones behind, the creamy scales on two very thin 

 lines between the latter and the median area. Abdomen deep 

 blackish-brown with narrow basal white bands, spreading out 

 laterally, especially on the apical segments. Legs deep brown, 

 unhanded, but with pale reflections. 



$ . Head deep brown with dense rather large pale creamy 

 to ochreous narrow-curved scales and pale creamy upright forked 

 scales, flat lateral creamy scales with a central dark patch ; 

 clypeus and proboscis deep blackish-brown ; palpi deep blackish- 

 brown with dense scales and a few black bristles ; antennae deep 

 brown, basal segment partly testaceous, dark on inner side, base 

 of second segment bright testaceous ; chaetae of head black, 

 except for a few bright ones between the eyes. 



Thorax deep black ornamented with rich brown and creamy 

 scales as follows : a broad median stripe of rich brown narrow- 

 curved backwardly projecting scales, a rather long similar 

 coloured patch on each side behind, running from about the 

 middle of the mesonotum past the wings, these are separated from 

 the median area by a very narrow line of creamy scales, rest of 

 mesonotum with rather larger and thicker creamy scales, which 

 in front on each side of the broad brown stripe are rather more 

 scanty in the middle, giving the appearance of two darker areas, 

 which are more pronounced under a hand lens than under the 

 two-thirds power ; the pale scales run around the brown area in 

 front of the mesothorax, and there are also rather large narrow - 

 curved creamy scales in front of the scutellum ; chaetae brown, a 

 tuft of shorter creamy ones before the root of each wing ; 

 scutellum deep brown with rather large narrow-curved creamy 

 scales and golden-brown to black border-bristles ; metanotum 

 deep brown ; pleurae black with patches of flat silvery white 

 scales with rounded apices and short pale golden hairs. 



Abdomen deep brown with violet reflections, the segments 

 with basal white bands which spread out laterally, the apical 

 segment having the white scales completely surrounding it ; first 

 segment with two patches of dark scales and white lateral ones, 

 and pallid thin hairs ; border-bristles very pale almost white ; 

 venter mostly white scaled. 



Legs deep brown, unbanded, under part of femora, tibia and 

 first tarsal segment white, base of femora pale, and knee spot 



