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and four on the central -lobe. Pleurae dark brown, 
with conspicuous patches of white scales; — on the 
mes-episternum a large patch near the upper corner, 
and a smaller one on the lower posterior side, and 
some white scales on the upper detached part of the 
mes-episternum behind the stigma. A. large patch on 
the mes-epimeron on the anterior side about the mid¬ 
dle. 
Coxae yellowish brown, with white scales on the 
outer side. Fore and mid femora dark above, the dark 
area spreading down the sides towards the tip, and 
pale beneath. Hind femora all pale except on the 
apical quarter. The extreme apices of all the femora 
pale. 
Tib iae dark above, pale beneath, the knee-spots at 
the apices of the tibiae narrowly pale on the front 
and middle pairs, and broad and conspicuous on the 
hind pair. Tarsi uniformly dark above. 
Wings with the upper fork-cell not much longer 
than its stalk; the m-cu cross-vein separated by twice 
its length from the r-m cross-vein. ITalteres pale with 
dark brown knobs. 
Abdomen clothed with almost black scales, the 
second to seventh segments with a rather broad basal 
band of white scales, occupying about one-third or 
rather more of the segment; on the sixth and seventh 
segments the pale band is very slightly produced down 
the side-margins. The eighth sterilite is almost en¬ 
tirely pale scaled. 
Venter with the bases of the segments broadly 
pale scaled, the pale bands somewhat narrowed on 
the central line, the apices dark. 
Wing length about 2.5 - 2.6 mm 
