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Aedimorphus albotaeniatus. nov. sp. 
Thorax deep rich brown with golden scales; head pale in the 
middle, then dark at the sides, and then pale. Palpi and pro¬ 
boscis black, unbanded. Abdomen black with basal white bands. 
Legs black, unbanded; hind tibiae with prominent white apical 
spots ; femora pale beneath. 
9 • Head dark with a median basal patch of pale narrow- 
curved scales behind, Hat white ones at their sides, flat black 
ones in front and at the sides of the flat white ones, then a 
lateral patch of flat creamy scales; a narrow border of smaller 
scales around the eyes of a golden-yellow ; black upright forked 
scales, and deep brown chaetae in front; palpi short, deep black, 
also proboscis ; antennae black, basal segment and base of second 
testaceous, the former with some small dark scales and darkened 
on one side. 
Thorax deep rich brown with bronzy scales and scattered 
bright golden ones ; chaetae deep brown ; scutellum pale with 
small, flat, mixed black and creamy scales; metanotum deep 
brown ; pleurae bright brown with patches of flat dull grey scales. 
Abdomen black with dull violet reflections, and with basal 
white bands to the segments ; pale brown border-bristles ; venter 
with basal pale bands. 
Legs black, femora pale below; apex of mid and hind tibiae 
with creamy-white spots, most prominent on hind legs ; tibiae 
spiny, especially on hind legs, spines golden-yellow ; fore and 
mid ungues equal and uniserrate, hind equal and simple. 
Wings with brown scales ; first fork-cell a little longer and 
narrower than the second fork-cell, its base a very little nearer 
Fig. 77. 
Wing of Aedimorphus albotaeniatus. 9. nov. sp. 
the base of the wing, its stem, about half the length of the cell ; 
stem of the second posterior cell more than two-thirds the length 
