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white lateral spots ; venter white or yellow scaled. Legs dark 
brown; bases of the femora and coxae pale, knee spot and some¬ 
times the apex of the tibia with a faint yellow spot; ungues of 
the 9 equal and simple ; in the £ the fore and mid ungues are 
unequal and uniserrated, the hind equal and simple. Wings 
with the first sub-marginal cell longer and narrower than the 
second posterior cell, its stem variable in length, never less than 
one quarter the length of the cell; posterior cross-vein distant 
twice (or more) its own length from the mid cross-vein. 
9 . Head brown, covered with pale golden-brown to creamy 
curved scales and a few scattered black, dark brown, and occa¬ 
sionally ochraceous upright forked scales, flat creamy-white 
scales laterally, and a faint pale narrow border round the eyes, 
numerous black and brown bristles : antennae dark brown, with 
pale pubescence; basal joint pale ferruginous to ochraceous, 
basal half of the second joint pale ferruginous; palpi densely 
covered with deep brown scales, and in some specimens with a 
few pale grey ones, and with numerous small black bristles; 
proboscis covered with dark brown to violet-black scales, some¬ 
times paler in the middle, and with a pale apex. 
Thorax brown, with two darker lines on the denuded surface, 
sometimes with traces of a third median line, covered with bright 
golden to pale golden or almost fawn-coloured curved scales, some 
being rather broader than others ; there are also three rows of 
black bristles, the median one ending at the bare space before 
the scutellum; scutellum dull ochraceous, with pale golden to 
creamy curved scales and brown border-bristles, which vary in 
number on the median lobe ; metanotum pale chestnut-brown, in 
some specimens with darker markings; pleurae pale testaceous,, 
with three or more small patches of pale, almost white scales. 
Abdomen covered with brown to deep purplish-brown or 
almost black scales, each segment with a basal white band rather 
expanded in the middle, and with white lateral patches, which 
show especially in gorged specimens ; posterior borders of the seg¬ 
ments with pale golden-brown hairs ; venter with numerous dull 
white scales; the first abdominal segment is dull ochraceous-brown 
(black in gorged specimens), with two patches of dull violet-black 
or ochraceous scales and numerous golden-brown hairs. 
Legs with the coxae deep ochraceous; femora deep brown 
above and at the apex, grey beneath, and tipped with a few 
yellow scales; tibiae deep brown, with a deep ochraceous apical 
spot (sometimes absent), and with pale dull brown bristles; 
