Female Head .—Dark brown, with the usual tuft on the vertex composed 
of long silky hair-like scales projecting forwards between the eyes and a few 
short Tinear scales mixed with them, behind these are rows of bluish-white 
upright scales succeeded by dark brown or black upright scales which pass 
backwards to the occipital foramen and laterally on to the genae or cheeks. 
Basal joint of antenna dark brown, with a few white scales on its outer 
face, remaining joints dusky brown, moniliform, and clad with downy 
hairs and white verticillate hairs; on the second joint there are scales. 
Ultimate joint of palpi clad with creamy scales, penultimate, with creamy 
scales except for a narrow band of dark brown scales in its centre; 
antepenultimate creamy at the apex, brown elsewhere. A narrow ring 
of white scales on the apex of the second joint. I o the naked eye there 
appear three white bands, one about the middle of the palpi and two 
broad equal bands separated by a narrow dark brown band at the apex. 
i Proboscis, clad with dark scales. 
Thorax .—Prothoracic lobes, dark brown with dark brown fan-shaped 
scales above. Mesonotum, dark brown with dark slate patches or lines 
thinly clad with short blunt spindle-shaped white scales. Shoulder with 
dense tuft of ochraceous and dark brown short clavate or almost piriform 
scales. Scutellum, similar in colour and scaling to the mesonotum. Pleurae* 
dark brown. Costa, brown scaled, broken by two small yellow patches at 
the base, one at junction of basal and middle thirds, a long one just after the 
junction of sub-costa and costa, and another long spot just before the apex 
of the wing. All these spots pass evenly on to the sub-costa and first long^ 
vein, but the portion of first long vein beneath the longest brown spot on the 
costa (which is about the middle of the wing) is not entirely brown scaled* 
the brown scaling is broken by two spots of yellow scales. 1 he rest of the 
veins are chiefly clad with yellow scales, the brown scales shewing as spots, 
there being one just before the apex of each vein, three on the stem of the 
second, tw T oon its upper branch and two on its lower, three on the third vein, two 
on the fourth, and tw T o on each of its branches, three on upper branch of fifth, 
and one on the lower branch, three on the sixth vein ; fringe, with yellow 7 scales 
' opposite the end of each vein; first fork cell a little longer and narrower than 
second, their bases almost level, stem of first cell about half the length of the 
cell; supernumerary and median cross veins quite close together, posterior 
about 2^ times its own length from the median. Coxae, dark brown with a 
few white scales. Femora and tibiae of all legs clad with dark brown scales 
and numerous spots and incomplete bands of pale yellow 7 and creamy scales , 
I Metatarsus of fore and mid legs with three broad creamy bands, one of which 
is apical, first two tarsal joints with broad apical and basal bands, third with 
basal band only, fourth unbanded; hind metatarsus very long with five 
creamy bands of moderate breadth, one being apical, first tarsal joint with 
narrow basal and broad apical band, second and third wfith broad apical and 
basal bands, fourth entirely clad with creamy scales. 
Abdomen. —Blackish-brown with numerous pale golden hairs. On the 
dorsum of each segment after the second are a few narrow -curv ed scales in the 
r centre at the apex. The number of these scales on each segment becomes 
progressively greater the nearer they are to the apex of the abdomen, the 
\ last^two segments being completely covered with golden-brown and dark- 
brown scales. 
