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Thorax brown, covered with tawny curved scales and with 
patches of deep creamy scales as follows : a patch in the middle 
line in front, lateral patches in front passing round the edge, 
a central patch and two lateral ones on the dorsum; there are 
also numerous creamy scales just in front of the scutellum ; 
thoracic bristles brownish-black ; scutellum and metanotum 
testaceous, the former with scattered curved creamy scales; 
pleurae pale purplish-brown, with frosty tomentum and one large 
patch of white scales and other scattered ones. 
Abdomen with the front segments covered with dark brown 
scales, the apical borders being banded with dull creamy scales ; 
the fifth segment with a basal band of dark scales, the remainder 
all ochraceous yellow, the following segments densely clothed 
with yellow scales; posterior borders edged with golden hairs ; 
laterally are small basal patches of white scales ; ventrally the 
abdomen is purplish-brown, densely covered with yellow scales. 
(Lt.-Col. Giles describes the same species as having fawn-coloured 
scales.) 
Legs with the fore femora yellowish, partly covered with 
brown scales, with a few white ones at the side, creamy at the 
apex, armed with large black bristles, which are most numerous 
just at the apex ; fore tibiae ochraceous when examined with a 
hand-lens, but under the microscope seem to be covered with 
pale yellowish scales, with a few scattered dark ones, and with 
distinct black bristles; metatarsus black; in the mid legs the 
femora are much the same, but there are more pale scales 
towards the apex ; the tibiae, metatarsi and tarsi as in the fore 
legs ; in the hind legs they are very similar, bu b the last tarsal 
joint seems to have a yellowish tinge and the femora are paler 
ventrally, especially towards the base. 
Wings with faint yellowish tinge along the veins, the veins 
covered with moderately long brownish scales towards their 
extremities; first sub-marginal cell longer than the second pos¬ 
terior cell and slightly narrower, their stems about equal and 
less than half the length of the first fork-cell ; anterior and mid 
cross-veins nearly straight; posterior cross-vein less than its own 
length behind the mid cross-vein. 
Halteres with pale stem and testaceous knob. 
Length. —6'8 to 8 mm.; proboscis 3 mm. 
£ . Head much as in 9 i antennae banded ; plumes brown, 
apical joints with white pubescence; palpi banded blackish and 
