Genus Newsteadina. 
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Head clothed with dense, narrow-curved scales, somewhat 
broadened, numerous upright forked scales broadly expanded 
apically and with flat lateral scales. 
Antennae plumose in the $ , the basal segments with very 
long, narrow, twisted, or wavy scales ; pilose in the 9 > with 
narrow outstanding flat scales on the two basal segments. Palpi 
of the £ of four segments (?), as long as the proboscis, apical 
.segment very small ‘ of the 9 longer than half the proboscis. 
Thorax with rather long, narrow-curved scales; scutellum 
with rather broad, curved scales; metanotum nude. 
Wings clothed along the veins with large, asymmetrical, flat 
scales (Mcmsonia type), and thin, straight, lateral ones beneath 
them. Scaled black and white, giving the wings a markedly 
ornamental appearance. 
JSTewsteadina arborxcollis. D’Em. de Charmoy (1908). 
Gulex arboricolJis. D’Em. de Charmoy (1908). 
Anns. Trop. Med. and Parasit. II., No. 3, 257, Inly 1 (1908),. 
D’Em. d. Charmoy; ibid, No. 4, 297 (1909), Theobald. 
“ $ . Head : eyes greenish ; occiput yellowish, with long w T hite 
and yellow curved scales, and a few hair-like black scales ; the 
yellow scales are placed closer in the line separating the eyes. 
The antennae bear long hairs which are pale yellowish apically 
and greyish-black basally ; the segments of the basal half furnished 
with very long, narrow-curved scales ; apical segment with a few 
short hairs ; the basal segment with short, flat, white scales. 
Palpi of four segments, as long as the proboscis, with narrow 
white bands at the base and apex of the second, third and fourth 
segments; white scales are disseminated over all the segments. 
Proboscis black, with the apex paler and a yellowish band in the 
middle. 
Thorax black, covered sparsely with long narrow-curved, 
white and golden scales, and long black hair-like scales ; those 
portions of the thorax which are not covered with scales form 
velvet black spots. Scutellum bordered with flat whitish scales, 
and dark hair-like scales ; metanotum nude, black. 
Abdomen velvety black, with whitish basal bands; apical 
segment with a few whitish scales at apex; all segments with 
long yellowish marginal hairs. 
Legs black, with more or less loosely scattered yellowish 
scales ; the articulations of the femora and tibiae are basally and 
