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dark brown, speckled, with basal white bands. "Wings densely 

 scaled w T ith deep brown and w T hite scales. 



9 . Head densely clothed with irregularly arranged scales 

 giving a ragged appearance, the median ones curved broadly 

 scimitar-shaped, creamy-grey, at the sides smaller and grey, black 

 and ochreous, then small flat ones forming a black central spot 

 surrounded with white, the upright forked scales in the middle 

 creamy -white, the lateral black, some with fimbriated ends, others 

 simply forked ; chaetae black and golden-brown ; palpi densely 

 black scaled, with a few grey ones, especially apically and black 

 bristles, scales outstanding ; proboscis black, with a few scattered 

 white scales, especially on basal half ; scapus of antennae 

 brown, with small flat creamy scales on inner aspect, basal 



Fig. 228. 

 Cephalic and scutellar ornamentation of Lepidoplatys squamiger. 9« Coquillett. 



segments of flagellum bright testaceous ; verticillate hairs black ; 

 clypeus dark brown. 



Thorax black, median area clothed with very narrow uniformly 

 backwardly projecting scales which are bright golden-brown in 

 front, darker behind, which in front of the scutellum become 

 broader and mixed with pale scales, at the sides the scales are 

 much broader, silvery-white, in front with a bright brown median 

 patch, the white scales forming a well-defined area much closer 

 together in front than behind ; bristles black and golden ; 

 scutellum densely clothed with large irregular white curved scales 

 and long dark-brown and golden border-bristles ; pleurae dark 

 brown with patches of flat white scales ; metanotum black. 



Abdomen clothed with deep blackish-brown scales with 

 scattered ochreous ones and broad basal white bands, the apical 



