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brown ; scutum grayish brown, yellow along the cephalic margin passing 

 around the black bristle ; scutellum yellow medially, brown laterad of the 

 bristle , postscutum brown ; metanotum brown ; sterna yellow ; epimera 

 and episterna reddish brown, forming a narrow longitudinal band. 



Haltères pale brown, subapically darker brown; tip yellow. Legs 

 short and stout, thickly covered with appressed hairs ; coxae short, cylin- 

 drical, in the fore leg about as long as the trochanter ; in the middle leg 

 shorter than the prominent trochanter ; in the hind leg prominent, much 

 exceeding the shorter and narrower trochanter. Femora rather short, 

 slender proximally, soon thickening so as to become almost clavate 

 distaily ; the fore femora have stout, long hairs, which are scattered 

 irregularly amongst the appressed hairs, becoming very numerous near the 

 apical portion of the lower surface of the segment. Tibiœ slender through- 

 out, tibiae and metatarsi with a few prominent hairs regularly disposed ; 

 the other tarsal segments with a single hair at the tip. The fore femora 

 are as long as the succeeding segments combined ; the hind legs are longer 

 than the others. Fore legs lacking (in the holotype) ; middle leg, coxte 

 and trochanter light yellow ; femora yellow, with a medial and subapical 

 brown band ; tibise yellow, with a dark band before the middle and at the 

 tip ; tarsi yellow-tipped with dark brown ; fifth segment and claws dark 

 brown. Hind legs, coxae, trochanters and femora as in the fore leg ; tibi?e . 

 and tarsi yellow, excepting the last tarsal segment, which is darker. 



Abdomen with numerous scattered hairs, yellow ; the apical margins 

 of the segments brown. 



Wings with a faint yellow tinge ; costal border and radial veins 

 •yellow; remaining veins darker ; a dark suffusion around cross-vein r-;;/, 

 at the union of Mg with M1+2 ^'^^ along the basal deflection of Cu^ 

 Venation (see fig. 2) : Sg short, approximated with R basally; its tip 

 opposite tlie origin of Rg ; R short, the tip of R^ before the middle of the 



Fig. 2. — Styringomyia hotvardi, holotype. 



wing, the sector originating a short distance back from the tip ; Rg straight, 

 rather long; R.^^g very short, oblique; deflection of R^^g very short, 

 scarcely equal to the rm cross- vein ; R^^g long. M forks anterior to the 



