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eye borders and black upright forked scales, two dark brown 
chaetae project forwards between the eyes, and three or four 
long ones on each side projecting inwards. Clypeus and palpi 
and proboscis deep blackish-brown, the palpi paler at the base 
with some long black chaetae ; proboscis with some pale scales 
towards the base; antennae brown, basal segment fawn-coloured 
with some small dark scales on one side, base of second segment 
testaceous. 
Thorax rich brown, clothed with narrow-curved brown and 
golden scattered scales; jet black chaetae over the roots of the 
wings, and as two lines behind the mesonotum; scutellum pale 
brown, the mid lobe with small narrow flat dusky scales at its 
base, then similar formed dull creamy ones, and then near the 
posterior border dull creamy narrow-curved ones, lateral lobes 
with long narrow-curved pale creamy scales; posterior border- 
bristles black, eight to the mid lobe ; viewed with the head 
pointing away from the light, the median lobe scales are all 
dusky, the lateral still creamy-white; metanotum chestnut brown; 
pleurae bright brown with patches of flat white scales ; pro- 
thoracic lobes pale brown with large narrow-curved creamy 
scales. 
Abdomen pale testaceous, clothed with black scales, showing 
dull violet reflections in some lights, with very narrow pale basal 
bands which spread out laterally ; posterior border-bristles dull 
golden brown; venter with pale creamy basal bands, dark 
apical ones to the segments. 
Legs uniformly brown with pale coxae with patches of flat 
Fig. 93. 
Wing of Myxosquamus confusus. ?. n. sp. 
creamy scales ; chaetae bright golden in some -lights, black in 
others ; ungues all equal and uniserrate. 
Wings rather short and,broad ; the first fork-cell longer and 
narrower than the second, its base slightly nearer the base of the 
