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Female, Head .—Deep brown to black : on the vertex between the eyes 
is a patch of silvery narrow-curved scales and there are a few silvery narrow- 
curved scales on the nape. On either side of the middle line is a band of 
silvery spatulate scales which about half way back spreads laterally as 
a transverse silvery band and this central line with silvery scales along the 
orbital margin and transverse silvery band behind and broad silvery lateral 
band encloses an oval area on either side clad with deep brown spatulate 
scales, while beyond the lateral silvery band of either side is a patch of deep 
brown scales succeeded by silvery-white scales ; vertical and orbital bristles 
dark brown ; upright scales behind deep brown. Basal joint of antenna 
brown with silvery scales on its inner face, second joint brown with deep 
purple-brown scale on its basal half, remaining joints dark brown with dark 
brown verticils. Palpi five-jointed, the first two joints round and small the 
third joint swollen, the fourth longer than the third, fifth minute, the whole 
palpus clad with deep brown scales. Proboscis clad with deep brown scales 
with a narrow band of creamy scales about the middle. This band is not 
always present and in some specimens it is incomplete above. 
Thorax .—Prothoracic lobes very prominent deep brown and clad with 
silvery elliptical scales. Mesonotum slate-black clad with narrow curved 
scales ; the portion in front of the wings shews a broad band of silvery 
scales running lengthwise and a transverse band of similar scales running 
across opposite the roots of the wings ; on either side of the broad 
longitudinal band the mesonotum is clad with coppery-bronze scales and 
the posterior third is clad with similar scales with an edging of silvery scales 
around the bare space in front of the scutellum. Scutellum light brown 
with silvery narrow-curved scales and brown bristles of which there are 
four on the central lobe. Pleurae dark brown with patches of snowy-white 
ligulate and narrow-curved scales. Wings clad with dark brown scales 
the lateral linear the median narrow ligulate ; first fork cell longer and 
narrower than the second, its base nearer the wing base, its stem about 
one-third the length of the cell; posterior cross vein about twice its own 
length from the median. Coxae creamy-yellow; femora deep brown above 
and laterally, silvery beneath, except the hind femora which have two long 
patches of creamy scales laterally ; tibiae deep brown with a basal ana 
apical creamy ring; metatarsus and first tarsal joint of fore and mid legs 
deep brown with a basal white band, remaining tarsi being deep brown. 
In the hind leg the metatarsus and first three tarsal joints have broad basal 
white bands; ungues of fore and mid legs equal and uni-serrate, of hind equal 
and simple. 
Abdomen .—Clad dorsally with deep brown scales and a narrow basal 
band of white on each segment after the first, the last segment shewing a 
large snowy-white patch; the sixth and seventh segments have apical lateral 
spots ; venter clad with dingy white scales. 
Male .—The head has more white scales than the female the two patches 
of brown being very small. The antennae are plumose and the plumes are 
pale silky-brown. The anterior mesonotum is almost entirely white scaled 
the bronze scales forming only a small spot on either side. The abdominal 
bands are broader than in the female. Fore and mid ungues unequal and 
the larger unguis is bi-serrate the smaller uni-serrate. The palpi are as 
