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Rh hairs and small scales. Legs deep brown speckled with white, joints of the fore and hind tarsi with apical white spots. Wings with the costa with four prominent black spots and two smaller basal ones, and a few small black spots on the veins ; fringe dark, with pale areas.

? . Head dark brown with frosty upright forked scales in front, dark brown ones behind and at the sides ; antennae dark brown ; palpi deep brown with three white bands, the two apical ones the widest, the whole of the last joint is white ; proboscis black. Thorax deep brown with narrow curved, flat, pale creamy scales, giving the thorax a frosty appearance in the middle, and a median tuft of white hair-like scales projecting over the top of the head ; the sides of the mesothorax dark ; scutellum paler brown, with narrow curved pale scales and dark brown border-bristles ; pleurae chestnut-brown, with patches of creamy- scales.

Abdomen deep brown, with dense dull golden hairs, and scattered' small narrow curved pale scales.

Legs dark brown, speckled wich pale creamy spots ; apices of the fore tibiae, metatarsi, and first two tarsi yellow, last two all dark brown ; in the mid legs the apical spots are scarcely apparent ; in the hind more distinct, but the last joint is all dark brown ; ungues small,, equal, and simple.

Wings (Plate 5, fig. 1) with four large black costal spots, and two- smaller ones near the base ; the two apical costal spots are continuous.

FlG. 1. Three variations in the wine of A. metaboles ? .

on to the first long vein ; the third, which is the largest, has three typical spots beneath it on the first long vein (fig. l,i); the fourth has one beneath it not quite so long; there are also black spots on the veins as follows : one on the upper branch of the first fork-cell, just below the apical costal spot, another towards the base of the fork-cell, a small one near its apex, and two small ones on the stem ; two small spots at the base, and one at the apex of the third vein ; two on the upper and one