Genus Pseudocarrollia. 
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silvery-white, also the scutellum, the posterior half of the 
mesonotum rich brown • pleurae with silvery-white puncta. 
Abdomen black with a dull greenish tinge, basal lateral snow- 
white spots and basal white ventral bands, and ventral black 
scale tufts. Legs banded with white, base and apex of metatarsi 
white, also base of the front and hind first tarsal, base and apex 
of the mid ; femora white at base and with a white apical spot 
on hind pair. 
$ . 'Head black, clothed with flat black scales and a narrow 
border of spindle-shaped white ones around the eyes, narrow 
black upright forked scales. and black chaetae projecting 
forwards ; clypeus, palpi, antennae and proboscis all deep black ; 
eyes silvery around the edges, black in the centre. 
Thorax black, clothed on the front half with dense long 
narrow-curved snowy-white scales, not quite extending to the 
pleurae on each side, forming more of a large round patch, 
remainder of mesonotum with rich bronzy scales, except for a 
few snowy-white ones over the roots of the wings ; supra alar 
chaetae long and black ; seutellum black, thickly clothed with 
snowy-white flat scales and golden border-bristles ; pleurae rich 
brown, with six or seven white spots ; metanotum black. 
Abdomen black, with the scales black, showing in some lights 
green and peacock-blue reflections, the green mainly at the tips 
of the scales; the segments with prominent basal lateral snow- 
white spots, six on each side, last segment small, basally white ; 
posterior border-bristles pale; venter black with snow-white 
basal bands, the fifth to seventh segments with dense black out¬ 
standing scales, giving a tufted appearance. 
Legs black with white hands ; front legs with apex of tibiae 
and metatarsi white - and base of ' first tarsal; mid legs with 
femora white at the base ventrally, a small white apical spot, a 
white spot at the apex of tibiae, a white band at base and apex 
of metatarsi, also base and apex of first tarsal and a trace at the 
base of the second tarsal; in the hind legs the base of the femora 
are snowy-white and there is a large white apical band, and the 
base and apex of the metatarsi banded white, also base of first 
tarsal; leg bristles black ; fore and mid ungues uniserrate, hind 
single. 
Wings with short fork-cells, the first sub-marginal narrower 
but no longer than the second posterior, its stem more than half 
the length of the cell; stem of 4he second posterior also more 
than half the length of the cell; posterior cross-vein about twice 
