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the spurs of the middle tibiae brownish red with a black tip, and un- 

 equal in length ; the front tarsi bearing a few scattered rather short 

 though conspicuous touch-hairs beneath the basal joint and at the tips 

 of the following three joints, and the posterior tarsi with reddish soles 

 but on the hind tarsi slightly obscured. Pulvilli brownish yellow ; 

 claws dark brown at the base but black at the tip. 



Wings slightly greyish or brownish, but brownish yellow or pale 

 brownish at the base up to the basal cross-veins ; costal cell yellow or 

 brownish yellow ; subcostal vein strong, dark brown, widening about its 

 tip and with brownish orange or blackish brown marginal clouding 

 there which forms a long narrow indefinite stigma, this clouding some- 

 times extending below to the stalk of the cubital fork ; anal cell closed 

 long before the margin, and sometimes pale yellowish on account of 

 the yellowish clouded postical vein ; upper branch of the cubital fork 

 very rarely with a short recurrent veinlet ; first posterior cell widely 

 open, but almost always slightly contracting towards the wing-margin ; 

 all the veins dark brown but mediastinal vein, radial vein and postical 

 vein usually paler. Squamae in the alar pair smoky glassy grey with 

 a narrow blackish margin and with a minute and pale fringe, but with 

 the usual rather conspicuous whitish yellow tuft of longer hairs at its 

 lower angle ; in the thoracal pair rather yellowish, with a rather broad 

 light brownish orange margin and with a shorter but rather denser 

 pale fringe. Halteres dark blackish brown, with the apex of tlie knob 

 slightly yellowish. 



Abdomen broad and rather ovate, slightly longer than twice the 

 thorax (not including the scutellum), and apparently wider than the 

 broadest part of the thorax, greyish black. Dorsum moderately shining, 

 with the hind corners of the first segment extending considerably along 

 the hind margin and the front corners of the second segment extending 

 out considerably on to the disc, rather obscurely brownish red to 

 yellowish brown ; this colour however varies considerably in extent, as 

 it is sometimes inconspicuous, while it may occasionally be broad and 



