Genus Protomacleayci. 
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Protomacleaya alboyentralis. nov. sp. 
Thorax rich brown, with two paler median spots and paler 
scaled lines at the sides before the wing roots ; pleurae brown 
with pale spots; palpi and proboscis black. Abdomen black 
with basal white bands, expanded in the middle, with large basal 
lateral white spots and white venter (in some lights creamy- 
white). Legs brown, unbanded. 
9 . Head dark brown with rather dense irregular narrow- 
curved pale scales, which become broader at the sides, almost 
spindle shaped; numerous dark, upright, forked scales, paler in 
front and placed all over the occiput, laterally a small patch of 
flat black scales, then an area of flat creamy ones; a tuft of 
golden chaetae between the eyes, long brown ones on each side; 
Fig. 114. 
Wing of Protomacleaya alboventralis. $. n. sp. 
eyes silvery; clypeus, palpi and proboscis black ; antennae deep 
blackish-brown, except the base of the second segment which is 
bright testaceous ; apparently a few small flat pale scales on the 
basal segment. 
Thorax deep rich brown, clothed with small bright brown 
curved scales, with patches of rather broader pale scales as 
follows :—two in front near the head, two further back and 
wider apart, nearly level with a patch on each side in front 
below the median ones, and others forming more or less lines 
before the roots of the wings, and some around the front border, 
and others behind near the scutellum ; scutellum brown, with 
flat white scales to the middle lobe, rather broad curved ones to 
the lateral lobes; metanotum black ; pleurae dark brown with 
patches of flat white scales. $ 
Abdomen black, with basal white bands, somewhat swollen 
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