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with slightly paler base and apex and with pale hairs; meta¬ 
tarsi with the apex pale banded ; fore tarsi with the first and 
second joints apically and basally pale banded, the third basally 
banded, the fourth only showing a trace of basal banding; 
mid tarsi the same as the fore ; hind tarsi also very similar ; 
ungues small, equal and simple; hind metatarsi longer than 
the hind tibiae. 
Wings with typical brown Oulex scales; fork-cells rather 
long; first sub-marginal cell longer and narrower than the 
second posterior cell, its base nearer the base of the wing, its 
stem rather less than one-third the length of the cell ; second 
posterior cell with its branches slightly contracted where they 
join the wing, its stem rather less than one-half the length of the 
cell | posterior cross-vein nearly twice its own length distant 
from the mid cross-vein. Halteres pale ochraceous. 
Length. —4*8 to 5 mm. 
£. Palpi dark brown, with five white broken bands, last 
two joints with black hairs, apex of the antepenultimate also 
slightly hairy, apical joint acuminate ; proboscis deep brown, 
with an indistinct pale band ; antennae dark brown, with deep 
brown plumes, faintly banded with paler brown; basal joint 
deep ferruginous. 
Abdomen narrow, the basal creamy-yellow bands prominent, 
the last segment with creamy-white scales in the middle; 
abdomen hairy. 
Legs banded much as in the $ , but the last two tarsi seem 
to be unbanded ; fore ungues unequal, both uniserrated, mid 
ungues unequal and uniserrated ; hind equal and simple, small. 
Wings with the fork-cells very small, first sub-marginal very 
little longer but much narrower than the second posterior, its 
base nearer the apex of the wing than that of the second 
posterior cell, its stem slightly longer than the cell ; posterior 
cross-vein about its own length distant from the mid cross-vein. 
Length. —5 mm. 
Habitat. —Duketown. 
Time of capture. —April. 
Observations. —Described from a series bred by Drs. Annett 
and Dutton from larvae obtained at Conoes Creek, Duketown. 
The thoracic ornamentation soon loses its characteristic appearance 
by denundation, the golden scales only remaining; the tarsal 
banding involving both sides of some of the joints and the faintly 
banded proboscis should readily separate it from other African 
species. (C. No. II. label sign). 
The banding on the abdomen in the male spreads out laterally 
on the sixth and seventh segments. 
The two, sometimes three, white bands on the antepenultimate 
joint of the male palpus are very characteristic, the most apical 
band being very wide. 
