Legs . — Femora and tibiae with numerous yellow spots; 
metatarsi and tarsi with small alternating black and yellow rings; 
last tarsal joint in all the legs yellow. 
Wings .— With five costal spots, the two median ones being much 
the longest; fringe with six pale areas. 
M tcroscopical characters. 
Head .— With a large and more or less triangular area clothed 
with white forked scales, these scales extend from the vertex to the 
extreme front, sides clothed with large dense black upright forked 
scales. Two or more long white bristles project over the clypeus. 
Antennae , basal segment greyish brown; a few of the succeeding 
segments dark brown, the rest greyish; short hairs silvery grey. 
Palpi (fig. 6 b) clothed with rough outstanding dusky black 
scales; articulation of the first and second segments white scaled, in 
more perfect examples these will in all probability form a distinct 
ring; the basal portion of the second segment is also clothed with 
dusky black scales; the remaining portions of the palpi are 
unfortunately wanting. 
Proboscis dusky black, with the labella yellowish white. 
Ihorax . — Prothoracic lobes clothed with long outstanding 
blackish scales, these are distinctly spathuliform in shape, with 
suddenly truncated apices. Thorax greyish brown, with white 
scales; on the front of the mesothorax these are very narrowly 
spindle-shaped, and when viewed obliquely appear as narrow curved 
°nes, those on the lower portion of the thorax behind the wings are 
distinctly spindle-shaped and more dusky-white than those in front; 
sides of thorax in front greyish. Posteriorly the pleurae are 
brownish, and with a few scattered white scales. Halteres with a 
greyish stem, apex darker with a few brown scales. 
Abdomen . — Distinctly dark slaty' grey; hairs pale; apical 
margins with dense dark brown outstanding scales, intermixed with 
these, dorsally, are a few greyish white ones; apical segment 
clothed chiefly with yellowish white scales; venter blackish, with 
pale hairs. 
Legs (fig. 6 a ).— Middle and hind femora and tibiae very 
conspicuously spotted with yellowish white scales, so distinctly so, 
to appear almost ringed; knees yellowish white; metatarsi and 
