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dense 1 golden brown border-bristles j metanotum pale brown; 
pleurae dark brown with patches of pale scales. 
Abdomen brownish,, covered with flat loose bright oehreoxis 
scales 5 each segment with a basal white median patch of larger 
scales, somewhat triangular in form, and an outstanding basal 
patch of long white scales on each side, broadly spatulate at 
their apex with very thin stems ; on the fifth and sixth segments 
the white scales ■ are more abundant, the apical segment mostly 
ochraceous but with some median white scales ; there are also 
some flat dusky scales on each side of the median white ones, and 
some dusky tipped rather outstanding ones behind, especially on 
the apex of the fourth. 
Legs ochreous covered with dusky tipped and white scales, 
the former being ochreous at their base ; fore femora with white 
scales at the apex and a narrow ring of white near, tibiae with 
basal, median and apical white bands; metatarsi and tarsi 
Fig. 44. 
Fore foot of Muddies sudanensis . $. Theobald. 
ochreous j mid legs with femora the same and the tibiae with 
broader white bands and more outstanding dusky tipped scales ; 
metatarsi white at the base and in the middle, first tarsal with a 
basal white band, rest unbanded; hind legs with the white bands 
still more pronounced and all the tarsi with basal white bands 
and the outstanding dusky tipped scales more numerous than on 
the mid legs; ungues all equal, dark thick and unisorrated. 
Wings clothed with ochreous, dusky, white and parti-coloured 
scales, the last two mainly towards the base of the wings ; the 
first submarginal cell slightly longer, but scarcely narrower than 
the second posterior cell, its base almost level with that of the 
latter, its stem about two-thirds the length of the cell, stem 
of the second posterior longer than the cell; posterior cross-vein 
longer than the mid and slightly in front of it j the third vein 
close to the second and continued to the base of the wing as a 
pseudo-vein ] a distinct pseudo-vein continued from the upper 
branch of the fifth to the base of the wing, and a distinct pseudo- 
