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a curved brown broader line on each side, covered scantily with golden 
hair-like curved scales which arise from black specks; in front three pat¬ 
ches of creamy curved scales ending bluntly. 
Scutellum with hairs and brown border-bristles ; metanotum dark 
brown with traces of a median and lateral dark lines; pleuræ reddish- 
brown with greyish sheen here and there. 
Abdomen deep brown, clothed with rather irregular large black 
scales and with deep brown lateral and posterior border-bristles. 
Legs with the femora and tibiæ brown, traces of a pale knee spot ; 
on the venter of the femora are also pale patches ; fore metatarsi with 
three creamy bands, one apical, first and second tarsi with very broad 
Fig. 1. Kertészia boliviensis n. sp. $ . — A thoracic markings ; B front of 
mesothorax ; C abdominal scales. 
apical yellow areas above (not true bands), last two tarsi all brown ; in the 
mid legs the pale apical areas are only on the metatarsi and first tarsal 
and the other two metatarsal areas indistinct ; in the hind legs the apex 
of the metatarsal pale above and traces of the other two pale spots, the 
greater part of the first tarsal white (a minute black base), the other tarsi 
dark brown ; ungues small, equal and simple. 
Wings with the costa with four yellow spots which spread evenly 
onto the first long vein and a small apical yellow spot where the lower 
branch of the first submarginal cell joins the border, extending on to the 
fringe ; the rest of the veins dark scaled except for a pale area along the 
greater part of the third vein, a trace under the first costal spot on the 
upper branch of the first submarginal cell, another at its base on the stem, 
one at the cross-veins, one at the base of the fork of the fifth, another on 
its stem and a small one on the upper branch near the cross-vein, one 
near the base of the sixth and minute traces where the veins join the 
wing fringe ; wing fringe with pale areas where the lower branch of the 
