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,a the lower half of the outer surface dark grey but at the rest part 

 pale greyish yellow, the pubescence mostly blackish but about the 

 basal part a very few greyish white hairs intermixed, at the inner sides 

 there is no pubsecence. Anntenae wanting. Eyes touching for about 

 the upper half of the distance between the vertex and antennae, when 

 viewed in profile much deepened and rounded below or less produced 

 to the antennae so that they appear to be apparently deeper than long ; 

 facets on the upper part Jess enlarged than in Heam. tristis, the large 

 facets occupying about lower third and its boundary not well-defined ; 

 in death yellowish coppery with dark greenish black lower part. 



Thorax moderate in size not very much short, black, somewhat 

 velvety black, without any greyish stripes but when seen from a certain 

 direction three very inconspicuous very fine somewhat slivery lines only 

 at the extreme front ; prae- and post-alar calli with inconspicuous 

 brownish upper margins ; pubescence on the disc somewhat sloping, 

 rather long, pale whitish yellow, with more erect stouter blackish hairs 

 intermixed, on the praealar calli there are rather numerous blackish 

 hairs, with a very few short whitish pubescence about the upper mar- 

 gin ; scutellum dull black slightly obscured by a greyish tomentum 

 around the margins, and covered with rather numerous more longer 

 but rather inconspicuous pale whitish yellow pubescence which is in- 

 termixed with a very few blackish hairs. Pleurae black but somewhat 

 conspicuously covered with a greyish dust, and bearing a long greyish 

 white pubescence which becomes denser towards the upper part, and 

 on the prothorax, the upper parts of the meso-pleurae and of the meta- 

 pleurae there is a conspicuous tuft composed of somewhat shaggy pale 

 greyish yellow hairs, especially on the prothorax more conspicuous and 

 more whitish. 



Wings about as long as the thorax and abdomen together, pale 

 greyish brown with the brown stigma and mostly dark brown veins, 

 and with no hyaline cross-bands excepting of the very inconspicuous 

 sinuated marginal band, but each cell mostly contains only one incom- 



