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brown, somewhat darker towards the tip and sometimes conspicuously 

 tinged with blackish at the tip ; second joint blackish brown, slightly 

 thinner than the third, very inconspicuously 5-annulated ; both furnished 

 with very short blackish hairs which on the first become shorter and 

 sparser towards the base ; third joint longest and thickest, quite bare, 

 much darker than the second, subulate, slightly upturned at the tip, 

 with five distinct annulations of which the basal one is aboi-.t equal as 

 long as the following four annulations together, and is bearing five or 

 six very inconspicuous annulations, while the last four are about equal 

 in length, but the apical one much longer than the rest ones and 

 bearing a few very short and inconspicuous hairs. Eyes with facets all 

 equal ; in death deep rather purplish black, with coppery reflections. 



Thorax slightly shining, black, somewhat by a whitish dust, 

 with two mouldy grey stripes only separated by a narrow and faint 

 yellowish brown line, the outside of this grey stripes conspicuously 

 darker ; pubescence on the disc whitish yellow, very short and rather 

 sparse, but on the praealar calli and on the posterior border of the 

 disc golden yellow, exceedingly danse and depressed, with suberect 

 paler hairs intermixed ; humeri yellowish brown, moderately convex, 

 bearing rather sparse pale yellow pubescence ; pleurae blackish, slightly 

 obscured by a whitish tomentum, but the prothorax and sternum and 

 meta-pleurae pale golden yellow, and the upper part of the meso-pleurae 

 slightly obscured by a yellowish dust. Pubescence on the pleurae 

 rather sparse and yellowish, but on the prothorax and meso-pleuare 

 moderately dense and long, somewhat tawny, and on the upper and 

 hind part of the meso-pleurae and on the meta-pleurae much denser, 

 golden yellow, and quite tawny. Scutellum transverse with straight 

 convex, moderately shining, brown, paler hindwards, bearing rather 

 sparse, suberect and pale hairs, but almost entirely bare from tomentum. 



Wings clear, on the fore border from the base to the apex 

 brown, but at the extreme base above the humeral cross-vein yellowish ; 

 basal cell with a small oblique brown band at the base ; cross-band 



