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etc. ; a narrow pale band at the junction of the metatarsal and 
first tarsal segments, also first and second tarsals on the 
fore and mid legs, other segments dark brown ; on the hind legs 
the banding is more pronounced and extends to all the- joints, the 
last segment being almost white below ; ungues all equal and.simple. 
70. 
Wing of Radioculex clavipalpus . $. Theobald. 
Wings with short fork-cells about the same length, but the 
sub-marginal narrower than the second posterior cell, its base a 
little nearer the apex of the 
wing, its stem about one and 
a third times its length, stem 
of the second posterior cell - a 
little longer than the cell ;' 
marginal cell swollen in the 
middle, narrowed apically and 
again expanded at the wing 
apex ; posterior cross - vein 
slightly longer than the mid, 
not quite its own length dis¬ 
tant from it; outer costal 
border spinose ; median vein- 
scales single, small and spatu- 
late ; scales dense on sub-costal 
and first long vein; lateral 
vein scales on the apical areas, 
of the second, third and fourth 
veins broad and flat. 
Length .—3 • 5 to 4 mm. 
$ . Head, thorax, abdomen 
and legs as in the female. 
Theobald. Head. - Antennae with dense flaxen 
plume-hairs, almost golden at 
their base, flagellum banded apical segments long, deep brown ; 
proboscis bright ochreous, purple-brown at the apex, which is 
Fig. 71. 
Radioculex clavipalpus . . 
