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Abdomen with the basal segment pale ochreous with very 
pale scales and one or two scattered dark ones ; the second, third, 
fourth and fifth segments with broad basal pale scaled areas and 
a broad median area of pale scales, separating the dark scaled 
lateral areas, the sixth with still wider basal and median pale 
areas, and the seventh with a broad median pale area and a 
narrow black line on each side; posterior border-bristles thin and 
pale, and there are also thin lateral bristles ; a paler scaled lateral 
line runs the whole length of the body with traces of darker 
scaled patches below ; venter pale. 
Legs with ochreous scales and a few scattered dark ones, tarsi 
mostly dark scaled; all the parts paler below, traces of pale knee 
spots ; femora, tibiae, and metatarsi with short bristles, pale in 
some lights, dark in others ; hind tibiae longer than the hind 
metatarsi; ungues all equal and uniserrate. 
Wings with faint yellowish tinge; the costa with yellow 
scales and the base of the first long vein with some yellow scales, 
Fig. 177. 
Wing of Mimeteculex kingii. 9* Theobald. 
rest mostly dark, in certain lights the lateral scales of the second 
and fourth veins are pale ; fork-cells of moderate length, the first 
sub-marginal. longer and narrower than the second posterior, its 
base very slightly nearer the base of the wing than that of the 
second posterior, its stem a little more than half the length of 
the cell; stem of the second posterior about as long as the cell; 
posterior cross-vein about its own length distant from the mid, 
which is the same size. 
Length .—5 mm. 
£. Thorax as in the 9 5 but the median pale line has a 
fine dark central line. 
Head with rather larger grey scales showing ochreous colours 
in some lights, and a median bare line ; upright fork scales dark 
