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Female Head .—Central area covered with purple-black spatulate scales 
with rounded ends, with a median line of pale ochraceous narrow curved 
scales a few ochraceous narrow-curved scales along the upper halt ot t e 
| orbital margins and some flat ones behind on the occiput On either side 
is a band of ochraceous spatulate scales much more marked m the type 
than the other specimen I have, vertical bristles brown orbital pale 
tawny, and very short and thick. Basal joint of antenna dark brown with 
minute black scales on the inner face, second joint pale at the base, dusky 
beyond with a few small spatulate black scales inserted at the junction ot 
the pale and dark portions, remaining joints dusky with numerous silky- 
white hairs and dark brown or black verticils. Clypeus blackish-brown and 
nude. Palpi four (?) five-jointed ; two first joints very short ot about equal 
length; third joint large, about as long as the two first together, followed 
by a long elliptical joint about equal to the first three joints m length and 
which I am almost certain is two joints for m certain positions a distinct 
rino--shaped depression can be seen about one-fourth of the length ot 
the joint distant from the apex, clad with black-brown scales as is the 
proboscis which is rather shorter than the abdomen and stout. 
Thorax .—Prothoracic lobes dark brown with bristles only, no scales. 
Mesonotum dark brown with faintly marked darker brown lines, clad with 
narrow-curved scales, a few pale tawny ones on the anterior margin an 
over the wing bases, elsewhere they are of an indefinite fawny- rown or 
in some lights mouse-grey. Under a hand lens they are brig it ronze. 
Pleurae shew a large dark brown patch centrally and the parts round t is 
are of muddy-brown. There are patches of silvery flat scales which are 
long blunt-ended spindles in shape. Scutellum pale brown centrally, 
blackish-brown at the margin, clad with pale tawny narrow-curved scales, 
bristles dark brown, six to the central lobe. Wing sea es mgy 3 ac 
spinose on the costa; subcosta with large triangular lateral scales and 
double row of smaller median; lateral scales on veins to the fourth and upper 
branch of fifth in shape narrow lanceolate though the ends are not pointed, 
but on the branches of the fork cells there are moderately long scales with 
nearly square ends and broader at their apex than base; bases of forv 
cells about level; the first cell is a trifle longer and narrower than second 
though owing to twisting of the wing this is difficult to determine accurately, 
stem of first fork cell shorter than the cell in about the proportion of four to 
five; posterior transverse vein about one and half times its own eng rom 
median. Coxae light muddy-brown with silvery flat scales; under sides 
of the femora silvery especially well marked m the hmd femora. 1 his 
white is a different white to that of the scales on the pleura as it is trans¬ 
lucent. It is a very difficult appearance to indicate by a word Upper 
sides of femora and all the rest of all the legs clad with dark purple-brown 
scales. There are rows of pale tawny spines on the tibiae which are much 
longeron the hind tibiae than on the others. There is a narrow ring of 
pale tawny scales on the apex of the hind tibia. Ungues equal um-serra e 
| on fore and mid legs. 
Abdomen .—Dorsally clad with dark purple-brown scales which in 
some lights shew rich blue and bronzy reflections. A band of white scales 
about one-third the breadth of a segment occupies the bases of the second to 
sixth (inclusive) segments, on the seventh there is a small central patch ot 
