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bright brown scales, paler just in front of the head and at the 
sides, larger chaetae deep brown, but the smaller ones in front of 
the roots of the wings and some over the head pale golden ; 
scutellum pale brown with small narrow-curved pale golden 
scales similar in colour to those at the mesonotum near it; 
pleurae pale ochreous with some pale flat scales and two dark 
patches, metanotum bright chestnut-brown. 
Abdomen deep brown, clothed with deep brown scales and 
with dull white lateral basal patches, but extending partly along 
the whole length of the segments; border-bristles pale; venter 
mostly grey scaled. 
Legs brown, unbanded, coxae pallid, base and under side of 
femora pale, ungues small, equal and simple. 
Wings with rather long fork-cells; the first sub-marginal 
much longer and a little narrower than the second posterior-cell, 
Fig. 159. 
Whig of Culux minor . $. Theobald. 
its base nearer the base of the wing, its stem less than one- 
third the length of the cell; stem of the second posterior about 
two-thirds the length of the cell; mid cross vein nearer the apex 
of the wing than the supernumerary, the posterior cross-vein 
nearly twice its own length distant from the mid. 
Length .—3 to 3‘5 mm. 
£ . Palpi thin, brown, the last two segments about equal, 
with short black bristles, scarcely to be called a hair-tuft. Fore 
ungues unequal, uniserrate ; mid nearly equal, uniserrate, hind 
small, equal and simple. 
Wings with the first sub-marginal cell a little longer and 
narrower than the second posterior-cell, its base a little nearer 
the base of the wing. Clasper of male genitalia rather broad, 
lateral process of basal lobe with three large broad spines and 
three smaller ones. 
Length .—3 to 3 * 5 mm. 
