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a narrow golden border, on each side ; before and running up to 

 the base of the wings is a line of pale blue flat scales pointing 

 outwards (in some lights they appear almost white), bristles 

 black ; scutellum deep ochreous brown, the mid lobe with small 

 flat violet brown scales, the lateral lobes with them more 

 pointed and larger ; posterior border-bristles of mid lobe four in 

 number ; metanotum deep brown, pleurae brown and ochreous 

 with some patches of flat white scales. 



Abdomen clothed with deep blackish brown scales, slightly 

 paler below ; posterior border-bristles pale golden. 



Legs deep brown, except the coxae and under side of femora, 

 which are paler brown to ochreous, the femora, especially those 

 of the mid legs swollen basally, the apex of femora and to some 

 extent the tibiae with the scales outstanding giving the appear- 

 ance of apical tufts which are most prominent on the hind legs ; 

 ungues small, equal and simple. 



Wings ornamented with black, creamy, and white, the silvery 

 white forming a large spot on the dark costal border, at the 



regions of the cross-veins and at 

 the base of the fifth long vein 

 the silvery white scales are 

 large and spatulate and form a 

 mass at the base of the third 

 long vein and from thence up to 

 Fi «- 263 - the costa to form the costal spot, 



there are also a tew white scales 

 on the branches of the second long vein, the apex of the third 

 and the apex of the lower branch of the fourth, another patch 

 at the base of each branch of the fifth, its base with a long line 

 of large flat white to mauve scales and also the basal part of the 

 sixth ; there are also large flat white or mauve scales forming a 

 smaller patch at the base of the fourth vein. 



The lateral scales on the second, third, and fourth veins 

 large and spindle-shaped, the dark median scales spatulate and 

 narrow ; the smallest of the series of fringe-scales clavate ; first 

 fork-cell not quite as long and much narrower than the second 

 posterior cell, its base nearer the apex of the wing, its stem 

 about two and a half times the length of the cell, stem of the 

 second posterior cell about one and a fourth times the length of 

 ihe pell ; posterior cross- vein longer than the mid nearly twice 

 its own length distant from it. Hal teres with pale stem and 

 fuscous knob. 



