Genus Nyssorhynchus. 97 
@. Head black, with upright white forked scales in the 
middle, similar black ones at the sides, white curved scales in the 
middle in front, and a tuft of long white ones projecting forwards ; 
antennae black, the first four 
basal joints with white scales, 
basal joint also with black 
bristles ; remainder of the joints 
with pallid and brown hairs and 
pubescence ; palpi black, orna- 
mented with white, as follows: 
a narrow apical ring on the long 
second joint, which is densely 
scaled with black and a few 
pale scales; the third joint 
with a broad apical white band 
and white spots of scales; the a. 
fourth joint white at the base 
and apex ; the fifth all white ; 
the palpi thus present a triple- 
banded appearance, the two 
apical bands broad, the basal | _ elise 
narrow, and with part of the fe 

palpi spotted ; proboscis black ; Fig. 56. | 
clypeus black Nyssorhynchus maculipalpts, Giles, 
; : a, Base of ? antenna ; b, female 
Thorax black, with scattered 
palp; c, cross-veins of 9. 
narrow-curved and small nar- 
row flat white scales, and short golden hairs and dark brown 
bristles ; scutellum black, with similar white scales; pleurae 
deep and bright brown ; metanotum black. 
Abdomen black, with dense blackish-brown hairs, a few scales 
only on the apical segment, remainder bare and shiny. 
Legs black, with the femora and tibiae, and to some extent 
the metatarsi, with small clear white spots, first fore tarsi with 
apical white bands, mid tarsi plain ; in the hind legs the last three 
and apex of the first tarsi pure white ; ungues equal and simple. 
Wings (Plate IT.) clothed with mostly dusky-black narrow 
elongate slightly clavate scales, with some white areas, as follows : 
on the costa five pure white spots, the two apical ones and the 
fourth spreading on to the first long vein, which is also white at 
the base, a small white patch on the lower branch of the first 
fork-cell; a few white scales at the base of the fork ;.a small 
white spot about the middle of the third long vein and another 
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