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of golden-brown tinge, and the distal part darker • clypeus 
brown ; eyes dark blue-green. 
Thorax dark brown; prothoracic lobes with a few white 
curved scales; mesonotum sparsely clothed with rather large 
white curved scales, and some brown bristles, which do not, 
however, form any ornamentation except for two tiny faint white 
sub-median spots nearly midway of the mesothorax, which only 
show in rather perfect specimens; when denuded there is a 
suggestion of a dark median line ; pleura dark brown, with white 
flat spatulate scales ; scutellum dark brown, the white curved 
scales being grouped distinctly on the lobes, the interlobular 
part naked ; eight long brown marginal bristles on mid and six 
on the side lobes, a few lighter bristles above ; metanotum brown. 
Abdomen dark brown, with dark brown scales and white bands, 
mostly basal, but sometimes very slightly apical, and in some 
specimens develop into very narrow lateral spots, especially on 
the distal segments ; occasional white scales scattered through 
the brown; second segment with a narrow median line, apical 
almost wholly white-scaled; apices and sides of segments rather 
profusely supplied with light-coloured hairs ; venter mostly white- 
scaled. Legs, coxae and trochanters all brown, with white scales ; 
femora dorsally brown, scaled with a sprinkling of white scales, 
ventrally white, a small light apical spot, but no ring as in 
annulata ; tibiae and metatarsi also brown sprinkled with white, 
with small light apices ; first and second tarsal joints in all the 
legs with narrow basal light (ochraceous) spots not always 
amounting to bands ; remainder of tarsi brown, except on the 
hind legs, where sometimes the base of third and fourth joints 
have a few white scales, not noticeable with a hand lens ; ungues 
large, simple and equal. Wings brown; costa, sub-costa and 
first long veins heavily scaled with long truncate scales, mostly 
brown, but sprinkled with a few white scales ; these are also 
found on the stem of the fifth ; the second, third, fourth and 
sixth veins clothed with long, slender brown scales; lateral scales 
narrowly lanceolate, median truncate but slender, aggregated so 
as to form four small but distinct spots, occurring at the root of 
the second, the bases of the fork-cells, and at junction of cross¬ 
veins ; first sub-marginal cell about one-third longer and a trifle 
narrower than second posterior, both stems about one-half the 
length of the latter; cross-veins nearly of one length, and almost 
in a line; ventral scales long and slender ; halteres, light stem,, 
dark knobs. 
