Genus Mansonia. Dives 
black and ochraceous at the apex; palpi ochraceous, with large 
black scales and black hairs and a few white scales mainly at the 

Fig. 145. 
Mansonia major. Nn. sp. 
a, Head scales; b, lateral head scales. 
apex ; antennae brown and the basal joint testaceous, also the 
base of the second joint. 
Thorax deep brown, with narrow-curved hair-like golden 
scales, with a silvery patch in front of the scutellum ; scutellum 
brown, with black border-bristles (denuded) ; pleurae testaceous 
and black, with white scales. 
Abdomen brown, with large blackish-brown scales, some 
ochraceous ones basally on some of the segments and white ones 
laterally ; venter ochraceous basally, each segment with a broad 
ochraceous basal band, then an irregular band of white, and then 
a few black scales. 
Legs deep brown, banded and spotted with white; coxae of 
the fore and mid legs dark, of the hind pale, femora deep brown, 
with irregular bands of white, most prominent on the hind legs, 
and five in number; tibiae deep brown, with small white spots, 
five on the fore tibiae, six or more on the mid and hind ; fore 
metatarsi with a basal white band and also a median one, first 
and second segments with basal white bands, the last two 
unbanded ; the mid legs much the same, the hind legs with all 
the tarsi basally banded ; ungues equal and simple. 
