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tie ground of the absence of scales from the clypeus. . Cingulata is evidently 
airly common in the jungle at “The Gap” though it only became trouble- 
ome in one place some 800 feet above the level of the road. It is a vicious 
»iter like all members of this genus but apparently very local in its 
istribution. 
Leicesteria Annulitarsis. n. sp. 
Head elongated with a narrow white margin to the eyes dark brown 
cales above and a broad white band followed by a dark brown band at the 
ide. Palpi white tipped, half as long as the short thick proboscis. Thorax 
vith creamy margin in front and bronze scales on the dorsum. Abdomen 
iark brown above white and brown beneath. Legs brown with creamy 
mee spots and basal bands on the metatarsi and tarsal joints. 
Female Head .—Much flattened laterally clad above with large spatulate 
,cales of a dark purple or dark olive-brown according to the direction of the 
ight with a narrow line of white scales in the centre and a broad 
>and of the same on either side succeeded by a band of dark brown scales ; 
dong the orbital margin of either side is a very narrow white line, and on 
he nape there are a few rows of light brown upright scales; vertical bris- 
les pale golden, orbital brown. Basal joint of antenna light brown with 
vhite spindle-shaped scales on the inner and lower faces, second joint pale 
it the base, dark brown at the apex and clad with large white spatulate 
scales on the inner face, remaining joints dark blackish-brown with white 
lowny hairs and dark brown verticils. Clypeus dark brown densely scaled 
with white elliptical scales. Palpi half as long as the proboscis clad with 
lark purple-brown scales except at the apex where the scales are snowy- 
vhite. Proboscis thick and rather short, scaled with dark purple-brown 
scales. 
Thorax .—Prothoracic lobes small, clad with large flat scales white on 
;he front, dark brown behind. Mesonotum with a broad marginal band 
round the anterior half of creamy scales (in some lights these scales are 
ilmost golden), in front over the neck these scales are narrow and curved 
out on the shoulders and in front of the wings they are broad spatulate 
scales; the rest of the mesonotum is densely covered with long narrow- 
:urved bronzy scales. Scutellum yellowish-brown, central lobe with pale 
:awn-brown spatulate scales. Pleurae brown, with numerous patches of 
snowy-white flat scales. Wings clad with dark brown scales with purple 
'eflections ; median scales long spatulate scales, lateral broadly linear scales; 
first fork cell longer but no narrower than the second, its stem about two-thirds 
the length of the cell, its base nearer wing base ; posterior cross vein about 
twice its own length from the median. Fore and hind coxae yellowish- 
brown, mid darker brown, all clad with snowy-white flat scales ; femora d^ark 
brown above, snowy-white beneath, knee spots white ; tibiae dark brown with 
a narrow white ring at the apex best marked on the hind tibiae ; metatarsi 
of all legs clad with dark brown scales with purple reflections except rat the 
base where there is a band of white scales; all tarsal joints dark brown with 
white basal bands on the first only in the fore leg, and on the first and jsecond 
in the mid and hind legs. 
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