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Thorax densely clothed with narrow-curved pale golden- 
yellow scales ; two anterior spots and a broad transverse band 
of black ones; the band faintly constricted in front, giving it, in 
some specimens, the appearance of two large confluent spots; 
scutellum with large, narrow-curved, creamy-white scales, those 
on the lateral lobes with golden reflections ; metanotum nude ; * 
pleurae creamy-yellow. 
Abdomen clothed with dark brown and black scales, appear¬ 
ing bronzy-purple in some lights and narrow basal bands of pale 
Fig. 129. 
Boycia mimomyiaformis. 3 ■ Newstead. 
Head (after Newstead). 
ochreous scales ; venter pale ochreous, with lateral, angular, dark 
brown spots. 
Legs unbanded, bronzy-brown, femora pale ochreous-brown 
at the apices, forming pale knee spots ; tibio-tarsal articulations 
pale ; last three segments of tarsi bronzy-ochreous. 
Length .—2 * 50 mm. 
$. Head with a well-defined median, long angular patch 
of narrow-curved creamy scales, no regular series as in the female ; 
sides broadly clothed with large, rather loose, flat, cream-coloured 
* Newstead says two ? ’s show a single curved scale, but these are 
apparently loose ones from the ( pietathorax, an evident misprint for 
mesothorax.—EVV. T. 
