fork, and only crossing the upper branch of the cubital fork at its 

 apex ; second basal cell only at the extreme base and along the posti- 

 cal vein clouded ; the discal cell in sometimes bearing a fine pale spot 

 in the middle ; anal cell usually closed at the margin but in sometimes 

 fairly conspicuously open ; the upper branch of the cubital fork about the 

 base slightly curve and without any veinlet. Squame pale brown with 

 a yellowish margin, but in the alar pair the margin is blackish and 

 bears a short conspicuous black fringe. 



Legs entirely black, shining but slightly dusted with greyish, 

 rather stout, the pubescence all black, rather abundant and on the 

 femora fairly long ; apical spurs black, and pulvilli grey yellowish 

 brown or greyis]| yellow. 



Abdomen long, distinctly longer than the head and thorax 

 (including the scutellum) together, at the base of the second segment 

 broadest fairly conspicuously parallel-sided, with the somewhat rounded 

 anal end, black, shining, very inconspicuously dusted with brownish 

 and covered with a fairly abundant black pubescence which becomes 

 longer at the side of the two basal segments ; the belly somewhat dull 

 black furnished with a less long black pubescence. 



Length : IO-I 1.5 mm. 



Male. Much like the female. Head somewhat smaller than 

 that in the female ; face more convex and more pubescent, shining 

 black, furnished with rather numerous long black hairs all over the 

 face; vertex dull black, elevated, and bearing a rather abundant long 

 black pubescence ; frons small, triangular, quite bare, rather shining 

 black with a brownish fore-margin which extends all round the base 

 of the antennae and joins with the brownish middle line of the face, 

 this line being not reach below to the oral margin. Proboscis less 

 stouter ; palpi short, about half as long as the proboscis, elevated at 

 right angles to the proboscis, and furnished with much longer and 

 numerous black hairs. Eyes quite bare, touching for less than the 

 middle third of the distance between the occiput and the antennae ; 



