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yellowish grey hairs, but with numerous inconspicuous more erect 

 black hairs intermixed. Pleurae dark ashy grey, with a long and shag- 

 gy greyish yellow pubescence which is sparse on the lower part and 

 which includes a patch of black hairs on the back part of the meso- 

 pleurae, while the pubescence on the upper part of the pleurae is more 

 yellowish and less grey. Scutellum dark grey, and bearing long almost 

 erect black and yellowish hairs intermixed. 



Wings brown with similarly mottled pale yellowish hyaline spots 

 vvhich are usually narrow but more distinct. Squamae and halteres as 

 in the female, but the knob of the halteres more whitish on the top. 



Legs coloured as in the female. Pubescence very much numerous 

 and longer ; front coxae with a long rather fine pale pubescence 

 v\ hich becomes usually black and bristly about the apex ; front femora 

 bearing mainly blackish and long pubescence, and two posterior femora 

 nith nearly all yellow and much longer pubescence which is intermixed 

 with a few short but stouter blackish hairs about the apex; front 

 tibiae with inconspicuous black dorsal ciliation though there are pale 

 hairs on the orange part, and bearing a few touch-hairs, while on the 

 front tarsi there are numerous distinct touch-hairs beneath ; middle 

 tibiae with numerous scattered long blackish hairs, and some shorter 

 pale hairs on the pale bands, and bearing two unequal dark yellowish 

 brown (though black tipped) spurs ; hind tibiae with a long conspicu- 

 ous rather dense black dorsal fringe, and with a finer but almost equally 

 dense fringe, but with some pale hairs on the pale bands ; all the tarsi 

 closed with a dense rather depressed black pubescence which becomes 

 longer at the dorsal surface, and bearing a very few much longer 

 curved apical hairs on the apical joint above. Pulvilli yellowish grey ; 

 caws black. 



Abdomen usually narrower than in the female and somewhat blunt- 

 ly pointed at the apex. Dorsum dull black, with the hind margins of 

 the segments (after the basal one) pale reddish yellow, and the sides 

 of the three basal segment (especially second) brownish red, and the 



