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370 pale bands ; fore legs with the femora and tibiae grey beneath, with a .few brown scales scattered above, metatarsi and first two tarsi with broad apical white bands, last two tarsi and bases of the others dark- brown, ungues equal and simple ; mid legs much the same, but the femora dark towards the apex, with a large white spot near the apex, which is black ; apex of tibiae, metatarsi and first two tarsals white, last two deep brown, ungues equal and simple. In the hind legs the femora and tibiae are much as in the mid, the apex of the metatarsus is white, and the whole of the tarsi except a narrow black band at the base of the first joint ; ungues small, equal arid simple.

Wings (Plate 5, fig. 2) with the veins mostly clothed with pale creamy scales, with four large black costal spots and two small basal ones, the apical, second and fourth black costal spots extend evenly on to the first long vein, the third has a large median and a small dark spot at each end; there are also small black spots on the veins as follows : one at the base of the first fork-cell, one at the base and another at the apex of the third long vein ; two on each branch, and three on the stem of the second fork-cell ; three on the upper branch and one at the apex of the lower branch of the fifth long vein, and another at its base ; three on the sixth ; the fringe is mostly dark with seven pale patches ; halteres pale ochraceous.

Length. 4'5 mm.

Habitat. Lahore, India.

Observations, described from three specimens sent by Captain James, I. M.S., and Drs. Christophers and Stephens. It is a very well defined and beautiful species, closely related to A. Kochii, Donitz, but quite easily separated from it by the white hind tarsi, the absence of thoracic ocelli, and by the wing ornamentation.

The $ is not known.

The type has been deposited in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) collection. The name was proposed by the collectors.

Thorax slaty black, with scattered flat spindle-shaped scales ; legs dark brownish-black, a pale band near the apex of the femora, a white apical band to the metatarsi and first two fore tarsi ; the last three and apex of the first hind tarsi white; the legs never spotted.