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numerous black and brown upright forked scales, a narrow white 
border round the eyes, and numerous golden bristles projecting 
forwards; antennae yellowish-brown, the basal joint with a tuft 
of white scales and a few brown scales on the second joint ; palpi 
densely clothed with brown and white scales, the white greatly 
predominating, especially towards the tip, a few parti-coloured 
ones also present and a few large black bristles; proboscis 
covered with golden-yellow squamae, and with numerous brown 
ones towards the base. 
Thorax yellowish-brown, with numerous, narrow, hair-like 
curved scales of a pale yellowish-brown colour, and with 
numerous, long, irregularly scattered white ones (expanded 
apically), in lines and groups over the surface, and with numerous 
golden bristles, which form three median rows, and others 
laterally ; scutellum densely clothed with long white scales and 
with a border of dense golden bristles ; metanotum yellowish- 
brown ; pleurae brown, with numerous white scales. 
Abdomen clothed with brown and white scales, many of 
which stand up irregularly from the surface ; the white scales 
form a broad, broken,' median line on the first few segments and 
predominate on the remainder. 
The legs, except the metatarsi and the tarsi, are densely 
scaled; the fore femora are yellowish, with long dark scales, 
white scaled at the apex, and with traces of white scales forming 
bands at the base and middle ; mid and hind femora very 
similar, but the white bands more distinct in the mid ones ; fore 
tibiae densely scaled, a narrow white band at the base, broadly 
white at the apex, mid tibiae with the white apical band smaller, 
hind tibiae with the white band smaller still, and an additional 
narrow white one in the middle ; fore and mid metatarsi and 
tarsi with short yellow scales in the hind legs ; the metatarsi are 
white at the base, then yellow scaled, mixed with brown, and 
then densely brown scaled ; the four tarsal joints are clothed 
with long white scales, except at their apices, where they are 
yellow ; ungues of the fore and mid legs equal, toothed, and 
dark brown. 
Wings with the veins clothed with brown and white and a 
few parti-coloured scales; the costa more uniformly coloured 
than in M. alternans, Westwood, a creamy patch at the end of the 
sub-costal; the fringe dark, with seven white patches; posterior 
cross-vein a little nearer the apex than the mid cross-vein; first 
sub-marginal cell a little narrower and much longer than the 
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