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. differs. Since the above was written the genus Finlaya has been placed in 
L 3S ? a eS haVe l0ng palpi v ' “ Gen era Insectorum 
26me r uscicule 1905. —Theobald. 
Orthopodomyia Albipes.— Theobald. 
Head above clad with silvery-white hair-like scales and numerous 
u^ighj; scales, with brown stems and silvery tops towards the front, those 
scaled ‘pfl ! ateralI 7 , ent ‘ re , 1 / br °wn. Basal joints of antennae densely 
scaled. Palpi more then half the length of the proboscis in the female and 
not as long as the proboscis in the male. Thorax ornamented with dark- 
brown golden and silvery scales. Dark scaled costa broken by five white 
spots. Wing scales piriform. Last three tarsal joint of hind legs white. 
Female Head— Deep brown, upper surface densely clad with numerous 
silvery-white hair- ike scales, vertex with a dense tuft of creamy-yellow 
narrow-curved scales, and the whole upper surface with numerous up- 
, gt scales in rows, the front rows having brown stems and creamy broad 
tops with numerous serrations, the hinder rows which extend laterally 
being entirely dark brown. Basal joint of antenna ferruginous with small 
li lT/ lgu ate sc f es > second joint pale yellow with numerous long 
i 0 ulate creamy scales, remaining joints pale yellow with dark rings at the 
insert lon o the verticils which are dark brown in colour. ClypeSs much 
prolonged forwards, black, with silvery-grey tomentum. Palpi about half 
• , ? as , l he P r °boscis, five-jointed, the ultimate joint being minute, clad 
Thb-d dee ^ c r °'!u ^ Ca 6S exc . ept for a rin § of white scales at the junction of 
and fourth joints and white scales on the ultimate joint. Proboscis 
ong, clad with deep brown scales on its basal half with creamy scales on 
the apical half except for a patch of black scales about the middle on the 
V, J^ruy.—Prothoracic lobes deep brown with an apical tuft of hair- 
tion of pA S | a h eS numerous elliptical creamy scales on the lower por- 
‘ °,H °! h ° be - Mesonotum deep purple, with a band of silvery and 
tjdrT * r ow-curved scales running down the centre of the anterior two- 
thirds, tufts of silvery scales on the shoulders, a line of silvery scales over 
internal® tn tlT h * feW g ? Wen r"' 5 tOWards the front of these lines, and, 
internal to these is a bare line followed by a line composed of 
silvery, deep brown and golden scales, and between these in 
the centre, m front of the bare space at the base of the scutellum are 
creamy-white scales. The ornamentation of the thorax is very difficult to 
spaces We ofsc ’T* ^ a ^ as under a hJd lens the 
men rh ° f a e f. appear like patches of dark scales. In the fresh speci- 
mre WinlTf ° n 13 Ve / y ^ but as the thorax dries the scales which 
ZtT f rtfn? 8 are erected and their directions altered and the pattern 
scales "which em " 1 6 SCU j edum ' s light yellowish-brown clad with silvery 
M,-a„ h c ar n lon g. aad some are twisted almost like the scales on 
withT U th SCU eUar , bnStl6S Hght brown ' Pleura d ark purplish-brown 
curved 1 Wh ° f ? Ca 6S S T? 'j Ulphcal some kgulate and others long and 
The whit m ? S ° n .k and C ad wltb dee P br °wn and snowy-white scales. 
the tldrd 1 ! t P °d ° n th 1 C0Sta are five ’ the basal two on *y involve the costa, 
Wend nracticall ^ u° ^ Stem ° f the fourth and fourth spot 
extends practically across the wing, the fifth is at the junction of second 
