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sparse pubescence which is mostly black but on the underside more or 

 less pale brown ; second joint very short cup-shaped but projected dors- 

 ally a considerable distance over the third joint (hardly reaching the 

 end of the basal subannulation of the first annulation of the third joint), 

 blackish, and bearing shorter black bristly hairs ; third joint slender, 

 moderately dilated after the base, paler, the basal annulation about one 

 and a half times of the following three annulations together, rather 

 lurid reddish orange but almost always conspicuously paler about the 

 base, straight about the middle but nearly three times as long as the 

 width of the broadest part and furnished with a number of short black 

 decumbent dorsal bristles at the apex of the basal subannulation and 

 some more beneath ; the other three annulations of the third joint form 

 a dull blackish brown cylinder and bearing a very few microscopical 

 pubescence at the epical margin of each annulation. Eyes in profile 

 shorter than the depth, clothed with rather dense though not very 

 conspicuous moderately long pale brown pubescence, which becomes 

 more sparse and paler on the lower and hinder parts composed of the 

 small facets ; eyes in death dull yellowish brown with blackish green 

 somewhat brilliant tinge on the small facets which occupy less than the 

 lower one-third and about half-way up the narrow back part. 



Thorax much shorter and roundish, dull brownish black with 

 three narrow widely separated grey lines commencing quite from the 

 front, of which the middle one is very narrow but well-defined and 

 extended right through to the scutellum, but the side ones not quite 

 so narrow rather less distinct and interrupted at the suture and often 

 become conspicuously grey and broad for only a short distance after 

 the suture (forming a spot) but almost always extended more or less 

 distinctly to the hindmargin ; the lateral band of the disc less distinctlv 

 though very broad greyish, but on the praealar calli they are conspicuous- 

 ly greyish, and on the postalar calli and about their neighborhood 

 greyish or brownished grey ; pubescence long and moderately abundant 

 (especially towards the sides), mainly composed of rather sloping 



