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FEMALE. Head with both black and pale cream-coloured upright 
forked scales, the latter predominating; anterior portion with rather 
large, narrow-curved, bright fulvous scales, and apparently a few long 
flat ones, intermixed with the former are a few black ones tipped with 
bright fulvous; sides with flat, somewhat loose, cream-coloured scales. 
Antennae dusky brown; nodes pale. Palpi densely scaled, black, 
dorsally with white tips. Proboscis swollen apical ly ; scales black 
intermixed with a few cream-coloured ones; swollen portion entirely' 
black ; labella bright ochreous. Legs with the anterior femora pale 
ochreous with a black apical patch in the centre of which is a distinct 
central crescentic band ; mid and hind femora black, the former with 
two, the latter with one yellowish band ; tibiae black, each with a sub 
apical but somewhat diffused band ; tarsi black with bronzy brown 
reflections, each with five distinct yellowish bands; ungues equal, 
simple. Wings with bronzy-black and cream-coloured scales; basal 
half of costa with a long black bar and two irregular spots; all the 
nervures with irregular groups and isolated black scales ; fringe pale . 
costal scales bronzy-black, becoming paler towards the apex ; out 
standing scales claviform ; a few of the black ones, especially those on 
the sixth vein, heart-shaped. Halteres cream-coloured with dark- 
brown scales at the tips. Thorax with narrow-curved, golden-yellow 
scales; four literal spots of black ones, the anterior pair arc 
the largest, and there is a broad indefinite band behind 
the second pair; scutellum with pale ochreous narrow-curved 
scales; metanotum black, with three dusky-yellow lines, and 
a basal, linear, patch of minute, flat, cream-coloured or white scales 
prothoracic lobes and pleurae with flat, dull, cream-coloured scale- 
Abdomen clothed with black scales, having brownish coppery reflee 
tions ; each segment with a long narrow median, basal, patch of dull 
cream-coloured scales; apical segment only with two lateral pale 
spots ; venter ochreous. 
Length 375 mm. 
Locality: Boma ; bred from a larva which was caught in .1 
marshy pool. 
BOYCIA, nov. gen. (Newstead) 
Head with a median area of narrow-curved scales, flat, loose, 
lateral ones, and numerous upright-forked ones. I borax and 
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