Genus Mucidus. 
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Thorax greyish-brown, with two paler median parallel stripes 
when denuded, covered with rather long curved grey scales and 
with patches of long twisted scales in front and before the roots 
of the wings, their heads being spatulate, with dense black and 
golden-brown bristles laterally ; scutellum pale brown to brown, 
with narrow thin curved scales on the mid lobe, with long twisted 
spatulate ones on the lateral lobes and a few also on the median, 
all pure white in colour; metanotum deep chestnut-brown ; 
pleurae deep brown, with white scales. 
a 
Fig. 80. 
Mucidus Africanus. n. sp. (?). 
a, Wing of 9 ; b, tibial scales; c, ungues of fore and 
hind legs; d and d', leg scales; e, e', abdominal 
scales; f, head scale; g, scutellar scale; h, second 
form of head scale ; i, wing scale. (Greatly enlarged.) 
Abdomen deep ochraceous-brown, covered with deep brown, 
black, white, and parti-coloured ochraceous and black scales, as 
follows : the first segment with flat white scales, some almost 
triangular in form, and with numerous golden-brown hairs; the 
second to fourth segments are mostly deep brown scaled, with a 
median and basal lateral patches of pure white; the remaining 
segments are mostly snow-white, but the fifth and sixth have a 
few large fan-shaped scales, deep black at their apices. 
Legs ochraceous-brown, covered with brown, black, and white 
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