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in position. Ungues of fore and mid legs unequal, the larger 
with two large teeth, the smaller uniserrated. Legs brown, with 
apical and basal banding. Proboscis with a narrow yellow band. 
£ . Head almost black, the occiput covered with curved 
pale creamy scales and with black upright forked ones ; laterally 
the head is covered with numerous dull ochraceous scales, whilst 
projecting forwards between the eyes are several bright golden 
bristles; antennae long, densely plumed, longer than the pro¬ 
boscis ; basal joint very large, bright ferruginous, remainder 
yellowish-grey, banded with narrow brown bands, densely 
plumed with bright flaxen hairs; penultimate joint as in the 
former species, with long dense hairs, apical joint darker, also 
with short hairs ; palpi with the penultimate joint black, unbanded, 
rather swollen, the antepenultimate with a broad yellow band at 
the apex, and another in the middle ; brown bristles and hairs 
on the penultimate, none on the apex of the antepenultimate ; 
proboscis brown, expanded apically, with a narrow deep yellow 
band in the middle. 
Thorax deep brown, covered with scattered narrow bronzy- 
brown curved scales, and with a few somewhat more pallid ones ; 
in front of the mesothorax, projecting over the nape, are two 
median tufts of short stiff brown bristles, and also some lateral 
ones (Pig. 129); there are also numerous black bristles over the 
roots of the wings ; scutellum with a few narrow curved creamy 
scales, especially on the lateral lobes, the median lobe with jet- 
black scales, curved and narrow, a few’ of these also occur on 
the lateral lobes and also on the mesonotum, in front of the scu¬ 
tellum ; border-bristles bright brown ; metanotum deep chestnut- 
brown ; pleurae dark brown, with some yellowish scales and 
dark bristles. 
Abdomen ochraceous-brown, covered with deep brown scales, 
and with basal yellow patches not forming complete bands; 
those on the second, third and fourth segments bent in in the 
middle, those on the remaining segments wdth curved borders, 
each segment has also a median white patch on each side; first 
abdominal segment pale ochraceous, densely black scaled in the 
middle, and with numerous long golden hairs; posterior borders 
of the segments with short hairs ; lateral hairs long bright 
brown. 
Legs with the coxae pale brown, with some dusky scales; 
femora ochraceous at the base and beneath, covered with brow r n 
scales above, apex yellow, numerous thick spines and bristles 
