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Head scales. Upright forked, black; narrow curved, pale 
ochreous with golden reflections ; flat, creamy white. 
Palpi (Plate XI, fig. 5). A little more than one-third the length 
of the proboscis ; tips clothed with white scales ; the remaining scales 
mixed creamy white, pale ochreous and blackish. 
Proboscis with an incomplete central band of creamy-white scales; 
the scales on the ventral surface of the pale area black, those on the 
remaining portion of the proboscis blackish with pale ochreous ones 
intermixed. 
Thorax with golden ochreous scales intermixed with a few black 
ones in front; those over the insertion of the wings very long and 
whitish; region in front of the scutellum semi-nude, blackish-brown 
with a well defined median group of black scales ; pleurae clothed 
with flat (some almost spindle-shaped) creamy white scales. 
Abdomen. Blackish with a few creamy-white scales at the base 
of the segments; and lateral sub-triangular patches of creamy-white. 
Apical margins of all the segments with a fringe of very long golden 
brown hairs. 
Ligs black or brownish-black ; conspicuously speckled with bright 
ochreous yellow; last segment of the anterior tarsi with an 
inconspicuous band of dull ochreous; mid tarsi-, apex of 2nd, basal 
two thirds and apex of third, and the whole of the 4th and 5^ 
ochreous white ; hind tarsi : apex of 2nd, the whole of the 3rd; base 
and apex of the 4th and the whole of the 5 th ochreous white. 
ln T s densely clothed with blackish and creamy white scales, 
. °y mer Predominating; base of costa, sub-costa, and first longi¬ 
tudinal vein, black. Fringe smnl™.™,, ^ 
