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pallid, covered with long black scales and a few pale ones at junction oi 
third and fourth joints, and some pallid hairs at the tip, best seen with a hand 
lens. Proboscis covered with black short scales, labellae fa wn coloured 
Prothoracic lobes, blackish-brown with a tuft of dark brown erect scales. 
Thorax. —Mesonotum: the greater part of the upper surfaced a pale fawn 
colour (in some lights it has a greenish tinge) with a dark brown line in the 
centre in front; on either side there are two dark brown patches .separated by 
a narrow pale line, which, if looked at sideways, look lighter, except for a small 
round dark spot at the upper part of pale line separating the two patches; 
in front is a rosette of fairly broad curved scales, white in colour, and the 
rest of the mesonotum is covered with scattered pale golden hair-like curved 
scales (white in some lights) and pale golden bristles. Scutellum with 
central part dark brown (black under a hand lens) and lateral portions 
same colour as mesonotum; a few pallid curved hair-like scales are scattered 
irregularly over it and the bristles are brown in colour. Metanotum same 
colour as thorax with a dark brown central stripe. Wings with costa black 
scaled, except for two yellow scaled areas involving first longitudinal, and the 
second spot involves the upper branch of second longitudinal. The first spot 
is placed rather more than half way from base of costa, second just before 
apex of wing. There are two patches of black scales, one at base of second 
long vein and the other at base of third and at base of fourth ; there is a light 
scaled area on the lower branch of second longitudinal; the first sub-marginai 
cell, longer and narrower than second posterior, its base nearer base of wing ; 
cross veins cannot be made out. All the rest of the veins clothed with black 
scales. Fringe black, except opposite yellow apical spot where it is golden- 
yellow. Pleurae, dark brown, marked with pallid lines. Coxae, pallid; 
fore legs clothed with black spindle-shaped scales with a purplish hue in 
some lights; knee spot pale and a few pale scales at junction of tibia and 
metatarsus. Mid legs same as front, except for a conspicuous patch of white 
scales on the dorsum of the femora just before the apex. 
On the hind legs, a little before the apex of each femora, is a dense tuft 
of lanceolate scales, which stand out on either side conspicuously, and where 
this ends the femora becomes snowy-white and is clad with similar long 
scales snowy-white in colour and erect. There is no banding of the tarsi. 
Fore and mid ungues equal and simple. 
Abdomen. —Dorsum, greenish-yellow, except segment four, w T hich is dark 
brown ; there are numerous pale golden hairs. On the last segment there 
are numerous golden-brown and dark brown lanceolate scales. The apices 
of the segments are slightly darker than the bases. The segment ventral!) 
is transparent, white basally and dusky black apically. 
Male Head. —Muddy-brown when fresh, dark brown when dry; between 
the eyes is a triangular space bordered on either margin by white narrow curved 
scales, and more to the front by long silky white hair-like scales, which cross 
and project forwards over the facies. Behind this space are a number of white 
spatulate scales standing upright like palisades. The ends are not forked. 
Passing backwards towards the nape and also laterally is a dense tuft oi 
upright scales which become darker and darker the further back they are 
placed. Basal joint of antenna dark brown, succeeding joints dirty white at 
the base, yellowish at the apex, plumes pale tawny-brown. Palpi, with long 
black scales at the base on their outer sides, dark brown scales over the 
