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Abdomen with yellow scales, amongst which are scattered 
black ones, which in some places predominate, forming dark 
patches; each segment has a basal white band, extending 
backwards in the middle on the second and third segments and 
produced laterally down the sides (Ficalbi says that “of the 
second segment produced at its lateral termination into short 
longitudinal lines ”) ; in the third to seventh segments the yellow 
scales are more dense in the middle, forming more or less roughly 
shaped triangular areas; ventrally the abdomen is covered with 
pale flaxen scales with a few scattered dark ones. 
Legs—coxae yellowish with white scales ; femora pale at the 
base, yellow at the apex and with a ragged yellowish band more 
or less broken before the apex, the remainder black with two 
lines of white spots, which may apparently coalesce and form 
two white lines; tibiae striped with black and white, the white 
speckled with black ; metatarsus black, with a fine white streak 
and white basal band ; tarsi black, first two of the fore and mid 
legs basally white and also the first three of the hind legs; 
ungues equal and simple. 
Wings with the veins covered with rather long brown scales, 
the upper surface of the costa white ; on the wing field are three 
distinct spots caused by the accumulation of a few dark scales, 
namely where the second long vein arises from the first, at the 
anterior and mid cross-veins, and at the fork of the fifth long 
vein; there are also indications of spots at the bases of the forks 
of the second and fourth long veins; first sub-marginal cell about 
the same width and but little longer than the second posterior 
cell, its stem about equal to half the length of the cell and about 
the same length as the stem of the second posterior cell, base of 
the latter cell slightly nearer the base of the wing than that of 
the first sub-marginal; posterior cross-vein considerably longer 
and situated about half its length distant from the mid cross¬ 
vein ; fringe brown. Halteres with ochraceous stem and dusky 
knob. 
Length of 9,7 mm.; proboscis 4 mm. Rondani gives the 
length as between 11 and 15 mm., including the proboscis. 
£ . I have not seen a $ * so append Ficalbi’s description. 
Proboscis black, longer than the palpi by half the length of the 
end joint of the latter; antennae with the first joint brown, 
bordered with white, second mostly white, and the rest of the 
* Since the above was written I have been able to examine a S from 
India, and find it agrees with the $ , and has very characteristic ungues. 
