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black scales at the sides, and flat creamy ones beyond, upright 

 pale brown forked scales ; brown chaetae projecting forwards, 

 except between the eyes where they are pale golden ; proboscis 

 deep brown ; palpi deep brown, with creamy scaled apex. Eyes 

 coppery red. 



Thorax deep rich brown, with brown and pale creamy almost 

 pale grey scales, the latter form two curved irregular areas in 

 front of the wings and to some extent at the sides and in front 

 of the scutellum ; chaetae brown and golden, those over the 

 roots of the wings golden at the base, dark apically ; scutellum 

 brown, with narrow-curved pale scales and six or seven brown 

 chaetae to the mid lobe ; metanotum brown ; pleurae brown, 

 with patches of creamy scales. In some lights the thorax shows 

 a dark patch at the root of the wings and a paler median area. 



Abdomen deep blackish-brown, the second to fifth segments 

 with basal white bands, the sixth with a few white scales, 

 remainder unhanded ; the first has a median patch of basal 

 white and apical black scales and pallid brown hairs \ venter 

 mostly pale scaled. 



Legs brown, femora pale ventrally and mottled with pale 

 yellow scales, yellow at apex ; femora deep brown with pale 

 bristles ; first tarsals deep brown, with basal creamy bands and 

 pale bristles ; second and third tarsals of fore and mid legs with 

 narrow basal yellowish pale bands, all the segments on the hind 

 legs with them ; ungues equal and uniserrate. 



Wings with yellowish brown scales, the fork-cells short, first 

 sub-marginal a little longer and narrower than the second 

 posterior, their bases about level ; both stems about two-thirds 

 the length of the cells ; posterior cross-vein shorter than the mid, 

 about one and a half times its own length distant from it; 

 hal teres ochreous. 



Length. — 5 mm. 



Habitat. — Maskeliya, Ceylon (E. E. Green). 



Time of capture. — April. 



Observations. — A very marked species coming near C. taenio- 

 rhj/nchus, Wiedemann, in general appearance, and may possibly 

 come in the same genus, but with adorned thorax, and markedly 

 narrowed abdomen which has only four white basal bands. 



