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a 
spatulate, increasing in length near the apex of the abdomen ; 
there are also dense lateral tufts of long spatulate white scales at 
the bases of the segments; the first segment is ochraceous, with 
median patches of flat white scales and numerous golden hairs, 
which are also abundant over all the abdomen. 
Legs ochraceous, banded with ochraceous yellow and brown 
parti-coloured and white scales, the scales being at a considerable 
angle to the legs ; the apices of the parti-coloured scales are dark 
brown, and these form two 
bands on the hind femora, 
tibiae, and metatarsi; the 
tibiae have three white bands, 
one basal, another median, 
and the third apical; the 
metatarsus, a basal and a 
median white band ; the tarsi 
are basally white; the mid 
and fore legs are much the 
same; ungues equal and uni- 
serrated, rather thick, much 
straighter than in ilf. alternans. 
Wings with venation much 
as in M. alternans , but the 
stem of the second posterior 
cell is longer, not shorter than 
the cell; the third long vein 
is also very close to the second 
Fig. 81. 
Mucidus scatapliagoides. n. sp. 
a, Wing of ? ; b, wing of M. alternans, West- 
wood ; c, thorax, and c', enlarged thoracic long vein I the posterior Cl’OSS- 
scales. . . , . ,, 
vein is nearly as long as the 
mid and the supernumerary together; the branches of the first 
sub-marginal cell are also more curved than in M. alternans. 
The fringe has eight distinct pale patches like M. alternans. 
Length. —6*5 to 7 mm. 
Habitat. — Burma, &c. (Watson); Moradabad, N. W. P., 
India (Close). 
Time of capture. —September (N.W.P.). 
Observations. —Colonel Giles sends me two excellent specimens 
of this new Mucidus. They were received by him from Major 
Close, I.M.S., and are, as he suggests in some notes and despatches 
sent me, identical with some specimens in the British Museum 
from Burma (Watson Coll.). The note sent re this species is 
as follows : “ They only appeared for about a week in September, 
