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Wings with the veins clothed with brown scales, the lateral 
ones moderately long and their tips convex. First sub-marginal 
cell very little longer and con¬ 
siderably narrower, its base nearer 
the apex of the wing than that of 
the second posterior cell, its stem 
about two-thirds the length of 
the cell, stem of the second 
posterior more than two-thirds 
the length of the cell; posterior cross-vein more than its own 
length distant from the mid cross-vein and somewhat longer. 
Halteres with ochraceous stem, knob partly fuscous and 
ochraceous. 
Length. —6• 5 to 7*5 mm. 
$ . Head much as in the 9 , palpi narrow, deep black, with 
deep violet reflections, bristly, the apex of the penultimate joint 
with two black bristles, apex of the last joint with several black 
bristles, no hair tufts ; clypeus dark brown ; proboscis black : 
Fig. 104. 
Wing of Armigeres obturbans, Wlk. ( ? ). 
(X. 9.) 
—-1 a ' 
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a 
Fig. 105. 
Armigeres obturbans, Wlk. 
a, Male palpus ; a', apex of same ; b, fore and 
mid female ungues ; c, male genitalia. 
antennae, with the basal joint black with numerous white scales 
on the inside, following few joints more or less ochraceous, 
remainder banded dark brown and grey, plumes dark brown. 
Thorax densely clothed with dark brown, narrow curved 
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