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brownish-black with silvery lateral scales (creamy in some lights) 
and silvery venter. 
Legs dark brown, the apical segment of the fore and mid 
tarsi bent, a dense tuft of long dark scales projecting over the 
last tarsal from the third ; hind legs normal; ungues all equal 
and simple. 
Wings with the first fork-cell longer and about the same 
breadth as the second, its stem nearly as long as the cell; stem 
of the second fork-cell as long as the cell; bases of the two cells 
about level; posterior cross-vein about one and a half times its 
own length distant from the mid ; second long vein carried just 
past the supernumerary, with one or two scales ; lateral vein 
scales long, thin, and forked at their apices, a double row of 
Fig. 237. 
Wing of HodgesicC cwptopous. $. n. sp. 
spatulate median vein scales on the first long vein and on the 
outer branch of the second; a distinct fold between the fifth and 
sixth long veins ; outer costal border densely spinose. 
Length .—2 mm. 
Time of capture. — 12. vii. 07. 
Habitat. —Obuasi, Ashanti (Dr. Graham). 
Observations .— Described from a single 5 taken in a house. 
In spite of the very marked feet, I have placed it in the genus 
Hodgesia, Theobald, as the wing scales, &c., exactly answer to 
those in it. It comes very near Hodgesia sanguinae, but can be 
told by the coloured patch on the head and the stem of the first 
fork-cell being nearly as long as the cell, as well as the very 
marked scale structure on the feet. 
Type in the British Museum. 
