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and towards the scutellum ; the yellow scales also form two lateral spot' 
in front of the wings ; there are traces also of a lateral white line 
extending from the wings to the front of the mesothorax ; scutellum 
with flat white scales ; pleurae dull ochreous with patches of white 
scales. Abdomen very pale ochreous, with dark brown and dull 
ochreous scales intermixed ; basal bands of pearly-white scales ; 
bands 3 to 5 broader than the rest; terminal segment almost covered 
with pearly-white scales ; venter pale ochreous with broad indefinite*, 
basal, dusky-white bands. Legs pale ochreous, speckled throughout 
with ochreous-brown scales ; anterior tarsi with the terminal segment 
subchelate; base considerably dilated, ventrally concave; base 
with four apparently bilateral spines, apex with a short curved 
spine, and immediately anterior to it a long plumose hair with a 
bulbous base ; ungues subequal in length, the larger with a long 
central tooth, the smaller with a short basal tooth; mid-ungues 
unequal, the longest simple, the smallest with a central tooth ; hind 
ungues approximately equal, simple. Genital armature with the basal 
segment of the claspers furnished with numerous long bristles, two of 
which, near the inner apical extremity, are narrowly lanceolate ; second 
segment broadly dilated at the apex with an outer, curved, spine-1 ike 
projection; terminal claw small, slender. Wings sparsely clothed 
with small brown scales ; first forked vein narrower and slightly longer 
than the second posterior. 
Female.— Head dark brown ; median flat scales smoky-brown, 
lower laterals forming a relatively large white patch ; median narrow - 
curved ones yellowish-white, frontals white, marginal series to eyes 
pale yellow; upright forked scales numerous, apparently all black 
Antennae very dark brown, with numerous minute, loose, flat, white 
scales, giving the segments a mealy appearance. Palpi pale brown 
with darker scales; tips with dusky white hairs. Clypeus very dark 
brown with minute, scattered, white scales like those on the antennae 
Eyes yellowish-brown with two to three black spots. / fwrax as in 
the $ , but with a well-marked series of white scales in tront of the 
mesothorax. Legs with patches of white scales on the coxae ; underside 
of hind tibiae clothed with white scales, with a broad apical white 
band ; the legs are also more uniformly coloured and browner than m 
the 3 , but the upper surface of the tibiae are speckled. Abdona-n 
clothed with dark brown scales with paler ones at the articulat" 0 
