( 2 3 6 ) 
Thorax. Prothoracic lobes dark brown clad with silvery flat scales on 
the postero-external surface and a row of bristles in front of these. 
Mesonotum dark brown to almost black in certain lights thickly covered 
with long tawny-brown narrow scales but little if at all curved, lanceolate 
m shape ; bristles light brown. In front of the scutellum and over the roots 
of the wings the scales are very long and hair like. Scutellum tawny at the 
margins darker towards the base, entirely clad with broad spatulate brown 
scales ; bristles light brown, two present on the central lobe others probably 
a\ mg been knocked off. Pleurae with a large black area in the centre 
surrounded by brown, the whole of which is clad with flat scales silvery- 
vhite though in parts they take the colour of their background. Wings 
brown, \eins clad with dark sepia scales; spinose scales on anterior edge 
of costa; subcosta runs so close to costa and first long vein that the three 
make a dark scaled area making it very difficult to say how each vein is 
scaled ; the apical one-third of the first vein, the branches of the fork cells, 
and apical two-thirds of the third vein are all heavily scaled with a single 
median row 7 and lateral scales elongated spatulate elsewhere the lateral scales 
are narrow and more linear in shape; fork cells of about equal breadth, and 
with level bases, the first is longer than the second, its stem is two-thirds the 
length of the cell; median and posterior cross veins of about equal length 
the latter distant its own length from the median. Fringe scales short. 
Coxae light yellowish-brown. Fore femora dark purple-brown above and 
laterally creamy-white beneath. On the anterior surface are two pearly- 
white ovoid spots one near the apex the other in the middle. Mid 
femora similar to the fore femora; hind femora creamy-yellow all round 
at the immediate base beyond this brown above and creamy-yellow below 
with two pearly-white spots as in the mid femora, remainder of all legs dark 
purple-bronze; ungues equal and simple. 
Abdomen. Dark purple-bronze above with large glistening pearly-white 
lateral spots w r hich almost meet above giving the appearance of a band at 
the apex of segments two to five inclusive. The spots on the second 
segment occupy the whole of each side of the segment, they are straight 
below, and along the apical margin of the segment but the upper edge 
is concave. The apex of the terminal segment is fringed with pale 
golden hairs. 
Male. In the male the antennae are pilose but appear almost plumose 
by reason of the shortness of the joint with light brown plumes and the 
tw 7 o last joints are elongated. The palpi are about one-ninth the length of 
the proboscis. The fore and mid ungues are unequal and I believe the 
larger unguis on the fore leg is toothed but the specimen does not shew this 
well. There are no other differences to be made out except of course the 
genitalia which seem to consist of a basal piece and a single clasper attached 
to its apex. 
Occurrence .—The female specimens from which this description is drawn 
are damaged. It has been necessary to take more than one specimen as a 
type. They were all caught in the bungalow at Bukit Kutu during the 
afternoon. They never seem to bite. I did not see many there but 
numerous specimens were also taken at “ The Gap.” 
