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while in others it is clove-brown or almost entirely black. Antennae, palpi and 

 mouth-parts brownish-red. Legs light orange-yellow ; the hind tibiae and the 

 apex of the hind femora clove-brown, the hind tarsi almost black. 



Body feebly pilose, almost bare in general appearance above and often 

 somewhat shining where the pruinosity is rubbed. Vertex and front covered 

 with erect black hairs of medium length; the pilosity on the two basal joints 

 of the antennae, the palpi and the face pale ochraceous', grayish-white along the 

 posterior orbits ; the third antennal joint bare ; a pale yellow bloom, easily 

 lost, covers the integument of the head. Dorsum of the thorax with short, 

 sparse, black hairs, except on the sidesi, where the pilosity is dense, long and 

 soft, pale ochraceous ; a long, dense tuft of dirty gray hair behind the inser- 

 tion of the wing. Scutellum almost bare on its disc, its posterior margin 

 fringed with pale yellowish pilosity. On the under side of the thorax the 

 hairs are short, much scattered, grayish-white. The integument of the thorax 

 is covered above and below with a bright grayish to white bloom, which forms 

 on the dorsum four broad longitudinal bands of almost equal width and dis- 

 tinctly limited by five dull brown pollinose stripes ; the bloom of the dark 

 bands is often partly rubbed so that they are more or less shining ; of the 

 brown bands the median one is about twice as wide as the others and ends 

 a short distance before the scutellum, the inner lateral pair reaches the scu- 

 tellum, while the outer lateral pair ends before the base of the wing and is less 



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well denned being partly hidded in the long lateral pilosity. Abdomen with 

 very feeble tomentum, except on the first tergite and on the basal half of the 

 second where the pilosity is long and dense, yellowish-gray ; the remainder of 

 the upper side bears only a few scarcely visible, short, reclining hairs, which 

 are black in the middle and pale yellowish on the extreme sides ; the pubes- 



