Genus Mucidus. 
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4. Mucidus scataphagoides. n. sp. 
(PI. E.) 
Thorax with dense grey mouldy hue, with a yellowish-brown 
patch on each side, having the appearance of the head of an 
insect. Abdomen yellowish-brown, with a white median tuft of 
scales on the first four segments, remainder mostly white-scaled. 
Wings with similar fringe to M. alternans, but the stem of the 
second posterior cell much longer; legs banded with white and 
yellowish-brown; ungues of the 9 equal, thick, uniserrated, not 
as thick as in M. alternans , and of different form (Fig. 78). 
9 • Head yellowish-brown, with a white-scaled border round 
the eyes, with numerous long irregular white scales in the middle, 
which form a denser median line, dense white scales laterally and 
numerous long thin yellowish upright forked scales, numerous 
pale ochraceous bristles projecting forwards and a row of very 
pallid, rather flattish ones over the eyes; eyes coppery-red and 
black; antennae ochraceous, with narrow dark bands at the 
verticils, apical joints dark brown, basal joint bright ochraceous, 
with a tuft of white scales on the inside ; proboscis ochraceous, 
with brown scales at the base, the middle with projecting 
ochraceous and white scales, and the apex with flatter bright 
ochraceous scales; palpi ochraceous, with projecting white scales 
and a few parti-coloured dark brown and white; clypeus bright 
ochraceous yellow. 
Thorax brown, densely clothed with long white woolly-like 
scales, except on two brown eye-like patches on the anterior half 
of the mesonotum, where the scales are short, not so white, and 
few in number; the white mouldy scales are particularly dense 
on each side of the mesothorax, in front, and also just before the 
base of the wings, there are also very numerous thick golden- 
brown curved hairs; scutellum pale brown, with long twisted 
white scales, some with spatulate extremities, the majority clavate 
at the apex, with brown border-bristles; metanotum chestnut- 
brown ; pleurae pale brown , with one large and several small deep 
brownislMa k spots. 
Abdomen densely clothed with very bright ochraceous-yellow, 
white, and parti-coloured yellow and brown scales, the latter at 
the sides; the white scales form, more or less a median line on 
the first few segments, the apical segments being densely white 
scaled, some of these median scales are flat, others long and 
