38 o 
bands, the apical one being the broadest; proboscis very long and 
straight , black with a pale apex. 
Thorax. — Grey-brown clothed with whitish scales, with a dark 
median line and dark lateral ridges. 
Abdomen. — Brown, with pale hairs. 
Legs. — Brown, with pale articulations. 
Wings. — Rather thinly scaled, with two small basal and four 
large costal spots; fringe with five pale areas. 
Microscopical characters. 
FEMALE. — Head black, with numerous white upright forked 
scales forming a more or less triangular group in front, the remaining 
portion covered with black forked scales, with the exception of a 
few on the posterior lateral margin, which are of a golden yellow 
colour; projecting between the eyes is a tuft of elongated white 
scales and several greyish bristles. 
Palpi (fig. 4) and proboscis very long and thin, the former 
clothed with dark brown scales, with white bands at the 
articulations, and with a distinctly broader band at the apex, the 
latter covered with dark scales, except those on the labella, which 
are of a dull yellow colour. 
7 hot ax. —Integument of the median dorsal area grey-brown, the 
sides dark brown, forming two more or less distinct stripes, scales 
on the pale area greyish white; pleurae paler than the lateral 
margins of the thorax, almost bare, but with a few scattered grey 
scales present. 
Abdomen. — Pale grey-brown, with dark brown apical margins to 
the segments, and clothed with greyish hairs. 
Legs. Brown, all the articulations pale. 
Wings (fig. 5). — With lanceolate scales on the veins. Costa with 
two small basal and four large spots, the latter approximately 
equidistant and sub-equal in length, all extending on to the first 
longitudinal vein, spaces between the spots clothed with yellowish 
scales. 1 he scales on the first two-thirds of the stem of the second 
longitudinal vein chiefly black, the rest of the stem and base 
of the fork white; tip of upper branch yellow the rest black, lower 
branch black with the exception of a small area below the costal 
spot. Third vein almost entirely clothed with yellowish white 
