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bands to the segments, second segment with a median white scaled 
line ; venter creamy-white, with black lateral spots (five or six). 
Legs dark brown; femora pale at the base and beneath, and 
with a broad pale ring near the apex, also one on the tibiae ; 
metatarsi with pale basal and median bands, some of the tarsi 
basally ringed white. Wings with four dusky spots of scales, 
two at the bases of the fork-cells, one at the cross-veins, another 
at the end of the second long vein. 
£ . Head dark brown, with scattered grey spindle-shaped 
scales, golden-brown hairs projecting forwards between the eyes, 
and a narrow pale border to the eyes ; antennae with the basal 
joint dark below, testaceous above, with a dense border of pale 
creamy scales on one side, remainder banded brown and grey ; the 
plume-hairs brown, except at the base, where they are bright 
fiaxen, the last two joints dark brown ; palpi black scaled, w r ith 
four prominent pale rings, the one at the root pure white, the 
other three yellowish, the two apical ones involving both sides of 
the joints, the antepenultimate joint with a long brush of brown 
hairs, fiaxen at their base, the last two with shorter dense blackish 
hairs, pale yellowish at the pale rings ; proboscis covered with 
ochraceous scales, darker at the base and apex, variable in hue. 
Thorax deep brown, covered with scattered golden curved 
scales in front, silvery scales of the same form behind, the paler 
scales also forming a faint lateral line passing forwards, those 
at the sides golden-brown, but narrower than those in front; 
scutellum with silvery-grey scales ; metanotum bright chestnut- 
brown ; pleurae bright brown, testaceous towards the roof of the 
wings, with white scales. 
Abdomen with the segments covered with dark brown scales, 
each segment with a basal band of white scales ; the second seg¬ 
ment also with a median line of white scales ; first segment pale 
ochraceous, with a purplish-black patch in the middle of the 
base, a median line and an apical border of the same colour ; last 
segment with mostly pale scales ; the whole abdomen covered with 
long pale golden hairs ; ventrally it is covered with creamy coloured 
scales in the centre, with five or six black apical lateral spots. 
Legs with the femora pale at the base and beneath, with 
scattered dark brown scales above, becoming black near the apex, 
the black portion preceded by a broad yelloivish ring, knee spot 
distinct; tibiae covered with black and white scales, the former 
predominating, a white apical ring and a slightly pale line on one 
side; the metatarsi with a pale basal band, and a broad median 
