Genus Sabethes. 
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bare at the base, but with long rich-brown scales on each side for 
most of its length, forming a paddle-like extension ; metatarsus 
also with long scales on one side, gradually becoming smaller to 
the apex; tarsi purplish-brown, the first joint snowy-white 
beneath ; in the middle legs (B) the femora are the same, but 
the tibiae have a much larger paddle of scales, those at the base of 
the paddle being snowy-white ; the scales also spread evenly along 
Fig. 71. 
Fore, mid, and hind legs of Sabethes longipes, Fabr. 
the metatarsi and become white on the first tarsal joint, where 
they graduate to a point at the apex; first three tarsi snowy- 
white, with black bristles, the third partly browif at the apex, 
the fourth dark brown ; in the hind legs (C) there is a small mass 
of lateral scales at the apex of the tibia and at the base and 
apex of the metatarsi, that at the apex of the metatarsi being 
the largest; tarsi brown above, last three white beneath ; ungues 
equal and simple. 
Wings dusky, the veins clothed with broad fiat scales, brown 
in colour; middle and posterior cross-veins nearly in one line ; 
fork-cells long, the first sub-marginal cell longer and narrower 
than the second posterior cell, their bases about level, first sub¬ 
marginal cell two and a half times the length of the stem ; second 
posterior cell nearly twice the length of its stem ; fringe yellowish- 
brown, border scales dark ; halteres with a dusky stem and large 
black knob. 
Length .—7 mm. 
