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bowed downwards medially, the median bristles twice as far from eacli other 

 as from the lateral ones which are well removed from the eye margin ; bristles 

 of next row just above the corresponding ones of the row below, but the row 

 is not so strongly bowed downwards medially ; ocelli on an elevated black 

 area which is semicircularly raised above the upper margin of the front. An- 

 tennae orange-colored, moderately large ; almost spherical, but somewhat pointed 

 at tip; arista very weakly pubescent, a little longer than the head-height. 

 Palpi scarcely paler than the antennae, stout, but not enlarged; bristly only 

 at the apex, the bristles not strong. Postocular cilia large, except near the 

 vertex ; cheeks each with two long bristles, one of which is much stouter 

 than the other. Mesonotum broad, strongly bristly along its lateral margin; 

 one pair of dorsocentral macrochaetse placed nearer the hind angles than usual. 

 Scutellum very short, nearly four times as broad as long, with four large 

 bristles set very far from the median line. Propleura with three small bristles 

 just above the insertion of the anterior coxa ; mesopleura clothed with sparse 

 black hairs anteriorly and above. Abdomen subshining ; sixth segment elon- 

 gated ; hypopygium more or less globose, shining yellow, clothed below with 

 sparse bristly black hairs as is also the sixth segment behind ; hypopygial 

 lamellae finely bristly, apical bristles not enlarged. Legs slender, none of the 

 femora thickened ; anterior tibiae with a short bristle externally at the basal 

 fourth, another at the basal third, and another at the middle followed by four 

 or five which become extremely minute before the apex, no spurs ; middle 

 tibiae with a small bristle behind the outer edge near the base, another in 

 front of the edge at the basal fourth, another in front at the middle, a series 

 of three minute ones on the edge near the apex, and three series of minute 

 comb-like bristles in front of the edge near apex, one long spur; posterior 

 tibife with a series of six or seven small bristles outside the hind edge and two 

 short spurs. Wings long and narrow; costal vein extending barely beyond 

 the middle, with extremely minute, closely placed, hair-like bristles ; first vein 

 ending four times as far from the humeral cross-vein as from the tip of the 

 third ; fourth very near the costal margin of the wing, nearly straight except 

 near apex, and recurved at both base and apex, fifth faintly sinuate ; sixth 

 more distinctly so ; seventh not very distinct. Halteres concolorous with the 

 thorax. 



Three specimens from Samarang, March and November, and 

 Batavia, Java, December (Jacobson). 



A very distinct species by its color and wing venation. The color 

 of the abdomen varies somewhat, the segments may be quite dis- 

 tinctly margined with pale yellow and the black on the basal seg- 

 ments sometimes extends inwards for a considerable distance. 



