Genus Skusea. 543 



median line of creamy white and lateral areas of creamy-white 

 ones, a narrow border of golden narrow-curved scales around the 

 eyes ; a few golden bristles project between the eyes ; palpi and 

 proboscis brown ; antennae brown, basal segment pale bright 

 testaceous. 



Thorax deep brown clothed with small narrow-curved rich 

 reddish-brown scales, ornamented with a more or less distinct 

 median line of narrow-curved golden ones, and lateral curved lines 

 in front which meet behind the head, and a pale golden scaled area 

 over the wings ; the median line forks round the bare space in 

 front of the scutellum, three lines of black bristles which are 

 most prominent behind, and also numerous others over the roots 

 of the wings ; prothoracic lobes with narrow-curved golden 

 scales ; scutellum brown with golden narrow- curved scales and 

 black border-bristles, five to the mid lobe ; metanotum brown ; 

 pleurae pale brown with white to grey puncta. 



Abdomen deep black and white ; basal segment all black ; 

 second segment with three white spots placed medianally, one in 

 the centre and two lateral, the next four segments with curved 

 white narrow bands, the two basal towards the basal part of the 

 segments, the two apical towards the apical borders of the 

 segments ; the seventh segment with two lateral white spots 

 about the middle of the segment ; apical segment all black, the 

 white bands spread out into prominent median lateral spots : 

 venter with broad basal white bands, apical borders of the 

 segments yellowish-brown. 



Legs deep brown ; tibiae and first tarsals bristly ; coxae and 

 bases and under surface of femora pallid ; ungues of fore and 

 mid legs equal and simple, of hind equal and simple. 



Wings typically scaled; the first sub-marginal cell con- 



Fig. 248. 

 Wing of Skusea funerea, var. ornata. 9 . Theobald. 



siderably longer and a little narrower than the second posterior 

 cell, its stem about half the length of the cell, its base nearer the 



