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creamy scales, except round the eyes, where the scales are 
smaller and bright golden, there are also numerous narrow 
black upright forked scales; clypeus shiny black; palpi bright 
yellowish testaceous, with rather scanty flat black scales and a 
few black bristles, longish, about one-fourth the length of the 
black proboscis, which is rather thick; antennae brown, the 
basal joint and the three following joints bright ochraceous, 
basal joint with numerous black hairs and a few small flat black 
scales, second joint with a few small black scales also. 
Thorax dark brown, scantily covered with rather large flat 
creamy spindle-shaped scales at the sides of the mesothorax and 
behind, with narrow-curved creamy yellow scales in the middle ; 
a few rather short black bristles over the roots of the wings ; 
scutellum dark brown, testaceous at the base, irregularly covered 
with small flat and small spindle-shaped creamy scales, with 
apparently a double row of brown bristles to the border of the 
median lobe ; metanotum brown and deep testaceous, shiny ; 
pleurae dark rich brown, with numerous scattered pale flat 
scales. 
Abdomen greyish brown at the base, steely black at the 
apex (when denuded), covered with deep brown scales with dull 
violet reflections, traces of irregular creamy white to almost 
yellow basal banding on the basal segments, on the last three 
apical segments the pale scales spread out over the whole of 
the segments, giving them a mottled appearance, and especially 
forming more or less distinct ochraceous yellow apical bands, 
the scales on the apical segment being particularly bright ; the 
basal pale-scaled bands spread out laterally to form distinct 
large lateral creamy white spots; venter with scattered white 
scales. 
Legs brown, mottled on the femora, tibiae, and metatarsi 
with yellow scales ; tarsi and metatarsi with basal creamy white 
bands, except the last tarsal joint ; apex of femora, tibiae, and 
other joints dark scaled ; the pale scales form more or less of a 
ring before the black apex of the femora ; tibiae very bristly, 
and to some extent the femora; the whole of the last tarsal 
joint on all the legs black; ungues large and thick, all 
uniserrated. 
Wings large, slightly clouded ; the veins covered with brown 
Taeniorhynchus-like scales (Plate XII.), wings longer than the 
abdomen ; fork-cells short ; first sub-marginal cell slightly narrower 
