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metatarsi faintly banded at basal articulation, first three tarsi 
with narrow basal white bands, mid the same but banding rather 
broader ; hind with basal white bands on all the tarsal segments ; 
ungues all equal, thick and uniserrate. 
Wings with deep brown scales with scattered pale creamy to 
almost white ones ; first fork-cell longer and narrower than the 
second, its base nearer the base of the wing, its stem about half 
the length of the cell, stem of the second fork-cell nearly as long 
as the cell ; posterior cross-vein longer than the mid, sloping 
backwards, nearly its own length distant from it. 
Length.—p to 5*5 mm. 
$ . Palpi black with black hair tufts and three white bands, 
the broadest at the base of the penultimate segment, the smaller 
bands basal, the apex of the antepenultimate much swollen and 
also the penultimate segment; antennae banded brown and < 
white, rich brown plume hairs. Abdomen similar to the 9 ? but 
the apical creamy spots are not so pronounced ; fore and mid 
ungues very unequal, both uniserrate; hind equal and simple, 
longer and straighter than usual. Wings mottled as in 9 but 
not so distinctly; first fork-cell very little longer but much 
narrower than the second posterior, its base nearer the apex of 
the wing, its stem nearly as long as the cell ; stem of the second 
fork-cell as long as or a little longer than the cell ; posterior cross¬ 
vein longer than the mid, sloping backwards about two-thirds its 
own length distant ; genitalia very marked, the clasper broad, 
bluntly truncated, sloping, with many fine curved hairs on the 
apical area and a circlet of long fine hairs curved at their apices 
and a short blunt spine. 
Length. —5'5 mm. 0 
Habitat .—Lourenco Marques. 
