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jient tuft ; scutellum transverse with rounded posterior angle, entirely 

 obscured by white tomentum, and bearing rather sparse whitish hairs 

 which is intermixed with a few blackish pubescence anteriorily. Pleurae 

 entirely obscured by white tomentum and covered with numerous 

 long shaggy snowy white pubescence which becomes denser above ; on 

 the prothorax and metapleurae, and on the postero-upper margin of 

 the mesopleurae there are conspicuous tufts composed of long whitish 

 hairs. 



Wings about as long as the thorax and abdomen together, 

 quite clear, with brownish veins of which the mediastinal, subcostal, 

 and postical veins, and the stem of the cubital fork, yellowish ; stigma 

 yellowish ; all the posterior cells widely open but the fourth cell 

 slightly contracting towards the wing-margin ; discal cell large, and 

 longer than the second posterior cell ; anal cell closed well before the 

 wing-margin; the upper branch of the cubital fork without any recur- 

 rent veinlet. Squamae in the alar pair brown with a blackish margin 

 and a brown ciliation except for the long whitish tuft about the angle ; 

 in the thoracal pair pale yellowish with a brownish margin and a 

 rather dense whitish ciliation. Halteres brownish with the knob dark. 



Legs blackish, with the extreme tip of all the femora, about 

 the basal two-third of the front tibiae, and the two other pairs of 

 tibiae (except the extreme tips) whitish ; front coxae moderately stout, 

 shorter than two-third the front femora, densely covered with a whitish 

 tomentum and bearing numerous long white pubescence ; front femora 

 black, very slightly obscured by a greyish tomentum excepting the 

 broad shining barr> subfemora! space which is not hollowed out and 

 distinctly transversely striolate, and at the inner margin of this bare 

 space there is a not very dense black ciliation of short bristly hairs ; 

 pubescence on the outer side of this femora dense, long, erect black, 

 which becomes to be slope forwards on the dorsal margin, and which 

 extends to the inner side where it is very short and almost all sloping ; 

 two pairs o( the posterior tibiae more dusted with whitish grey ; covered 



