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with several small pale spots; three more or less pronounced 
dark patches on the costal border. 
@. Head dark brown, with deep brown and grey upright 
forked scales, the dark ones grey at the tips, a faint pale border 
round the eyes and a tuft of hair-like pale scales in front; 
antennae deep brown, basal joint black, with narrow curved 
white scales; clypeus brown, of peculiar form ; palpi densely 
scaled with black scales, with three narrow white scaled bands, 
a white apex and a few scattered white scales; proboscis deep 
brown. 
Thorax brown, with a slaty-grey sheen showing brown longi- 
tudinal lines and with small brown specks and narrow hair-like 
golden curved scales ; there is a dark patch joining the scutellum 
which is carried on to its mid lobe, the rest of the scutellum 
being slaty-grey, with a few narrow hair-like golden scales ; 
metanotum deep brown, with a median dark line ; pleurae brown, 
with a grey sheen in places. 
Abdomen black, with deep brown and golden-brown hairs, 
the dorsum nude, but each segment with an apical lateral tuft of 
black scales and a few white ones on the last few tufts ; venter 
with many white and black flat scales, and also to some extent 
the apical segment. Legs deep brown, banded and spotted with 
white ; fore legs missing; mid legs with the femora, tibiae, 
metatarsi and first tarsal with white spots, the second tarsal 
with a small median white spot, the apical tarsal faintly pale ; 
hind legs with the femora, tibiae, and metatarsi banded and 
speckled with white and the tarsi with prominent white apical 
and basal bands. 
Wings with thick lanceolate and clavate scales (Plate V.), 
mostly black, yellow patches as follows: ten small ones on the 
costa, the two apical ones only spreading as two small spots on 
to the first long vein ; traces of one on the upper and two on the 
lower branches of the first fork-cell, one at the apex of the third 
and two on each branch of the second fork-cell ; fringe brown, a 
pale spot where the lower branch of the fifth vem joins the border 
of the wing, another between the upper branch of the fifth and 
the lower branch of the fourth and between its upper branch and 
the third (remainder damaged) ; first sub-marginal cell longer 
and narrower than the second posterior cell, its base consider- 
ably nearer the base of the wing than that of the latter ; 
mid-cross vein about its own length nearer the base of the wing 
than the supernumerary, the posterior not quite half its length 
