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ochraceous, with black scales at the sides and creamy ones 
in the middle. Abdomen brown, with two patches of creamy 
scales apically and two patches of white scales basally, apical 
segments yellow scaled. Legs banded, covered with creamy, 
purple and white scales, apices of mid femora with a dense 
tuft of dark scales (Fig. 261, I.). 
? . Head dark brown, with white scales in front, creamy 
scales behind and dark scales at the sides; a tuft of broad creamy 
scales sticking out between the eyes, a band of a few long 
chestnut-brown bristles around the eyes; eyes dark blackish- 
purple ; clypeus black, with two streaks of white scales; palpi 
covered thickly with black scales, white scaled at the apex and 
at the apex of the penultimate joint; antennae almost black, 
with white pubescence and dark hairs; basal joints with deep 
yellow scales and a dense brush of black scales; proboscis black 
scaled, broad, with two narrow white bands, apex pale. In the 
Madras specimens there is no yellow at apex, and an additional 
white spot on the proboscis near the base. 
Thorax dark brown, with scattered creamy-yellow scales in 
the middle and white scales at the sides and behind, with black 
bristles; scutellum ochraceous, with a tuft of black scales on 
each side and a few scattered creamy ones in the middle ; meta- 
notum deep clear brown; pleurae dark brown, with patches of 
white and creamy scales. 
Abdomen covered with dull brown scales (dusky purple 
under microscope), each segment with two patches of creamy 
scales posteriorly and with two patches of white scales basally, 
apical segments with bright yellow scales; each segment bordered 
posteriorly with golden hairs ; ventrally the abdomen is yellowish 
towards the base, black with basal patches of white scales 
towards the apex. There is much variation in the abdominal 
ornamentation in specimens from different parts of the world. 
Legs banded, yellow, covered with creamy, purple and white 
scales; fore tibiae with faint paler bands; metatarsi with two 
narrow bands of white scales and with the first and second 
tarsal joints broadly basally white, last two joints dark; mid 
femora mottled with yellow and brown scales, the apex being 
adorned with a large tuft of long dark scales, the extreme apex 
yellow scaled ; tibiae dark scaled, with seven narrow white 
band-like marks, the last apical; metatarsi with two white 
bands and the apex white, first two tarsi basally white, third 
slightly so, fourth dark. Hind femora dark, with a few scattered 
