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often of a reddish colour, rarely the entire abdomen is of a brick red 

 colour. Legs yellow, anterior femora with a more or less distinct, 

 longitudinal streak, tarsi black, pulvilli and claws rather elongate. 

 The investment of bristles does not present any special characteristic, 

 only it might be noted that, of the bristles on the outer side of the pos- 

 terior tibia, the one beneath is usually quite long. Wings pale yellowish, 

 without costal spine, third and fourth longitudinal veins parallel, pos- 

 terior cross vein steep and straight, the equally-sized squamae whitish- 

 yellow, halteres yellow. 



In the darker form the thorax and abdomen are of a more brownish 

 colour and on the former there is seen posteriorly the faint trace of three 

 somewhat dark longitudinal stripes. The abdomen as viewed from 

 behind is thickly bedusted, pale brown and a fine dark dorsal line is 

 relatively quite distinctly recognised ; it is often interrupted at the 

 posterior margin of the segments. The rather strikingly spherical 

 hypopygium is bedusted just like the abdomen, sometimes overspread 

 reddish, the ventral lamellae reddish. The colour of the legs varies ; 

 either only the anterior femora brown or also the middle and posterior 

 femora completely or at least on their upper surface, although sometimes 

 very indistinct. 



The eyes of the female are more roundish, the broad frontal stripe 

 reddish-yellow, sometimes somewhat obscured, the entire head either 

 pale brown or reddish, palpi generally thickened at the extremity, 

 club-shaped. Thorax grey or brownish-grey with the trace of a fine 

 median stripe; sternopleural bristles 1*2, the lower posterior but con- 

 siderably smaller than the upper, often only hair-like. In the matter 

 of colour, the abdomen again very variable, either pale brown or brick 

 red, sometimes a dusky red with the posterior margins of the segments 

 a pale brick red. But in all cases there is faintly seen, when looked 

 at quite obliquely from behind, a fine brownish or reddish h)ngitudinal 

 line. The legs are rarely entirely yellow, generally the anterior femora 

 with a more or less evident longitudinal streak." 

 Length 5"8-6 mm. Wing 5*5 mm. 



The egg (PI. I, fig. 1). 



The eggs are pure white, elongate oval, 087 mm. long x 031 mm. ; 

 surface not glistening, with a delicate sculpturing or pattern of irregular 

 hexagonal areas on that side of the chorion distal from the leaf ; surface 

 attached to the leaf, plain ; micropyle in a small depression at the apex. 



