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loose cream-coloured scales. Antennae dusky-brown, nodes pale. 
Palpi densely scaled, black, dorsally with white tips. Proboscis 
Fig. 225. 
Head of ? Anisocheleomyia quadrimaculata. N ewstead (after Newstead). 
swollen apically; scales black, intermixed with a few cream- 
coloured ones; swollen portion entirely black; labella bright 
ochreous. 
Legs with the anterior femora pale ochreous with a black 
apical patch, in the centre of which is a distinct central crescentic 
band ; mid and hind femora black, the former with two, the 
latter with one yellowish band ; tibiae black, each with a sub- 
apical, but somewhat diffused band ; tarsi black with bronzy- 
brown reflections, each with five distinct yellowish bands; ungues 
equal, simple. 
Wings with bronzy-black and cream-coloured scales; basal 
half of costa with a long black bar and two irregular spots; all 
the nervures with irregular groups and isolated black scales; 
fringe pale ; costal scales bronzy-black, becoming paler towards 
the apex ; outstanding scales claviform; a few of the black ones, 
especially those on the sixth vein, heart-shaped. Hal teres cream- 
coloured with dark brown scales at the tips. 
Thorax with narrow-curved golden-yellow scales ; four lateral 
spots of black ones, the anterior pair are the largest, and there is 
a broad indefinite band behind the second pair; scutellum with 
pale ochreous, narrow-curved scales; metanotum black with 
three dusky-yellow lines and a basal linear patch of minute, flat, 
