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Thorax black, moderately obscured by ashy greyish tomentum 

 throughout the disc, somewhat oval, gradually brownish towards the 

 posterior border but the sides of disc ashy grey, mainly covered with 

 black pubescence, but with some short recumbent yellowish pubescence 

 about the suture ; humeri distinct yellowish but wholly obscured by 

 ashy grey dust, covered with some long whitish and blackish hairs ; 

 praealar calli triangular and large, but not well-defined at the antero- 

 upper margin, orange yellow obscured by ashy grey tomentum, bearing 

 numerous long blaskish pubescence with some yellowish hairs inter- 

 mixed ; postalar calli dark brown with yellowish upper margin, wholly 

 covered with ashy grey tomentum, and bearing dense long white 

 pubescence behind and less dense black one on the rest ; above the 

 wing-bases there are black pubescence with a very few yellowish hairs 

 intermixed ; scutellum somewhat triangular with rounded posterior angle, 

 covered with whitish grey tomentum, and with whitish pubescence 

 which is inconspicuously intermixed with black hairs. Pleurae wholly 

 covered with whitish grey tomentum and long white pubescence ; on 

 the prothorax, and on the postero-upper margins of the meso- and 

 meta-pleurae there are white tufts composed of long shaggy hairs. 



Wings quite clear, with brown veins which are yellowish about 

 the basal border and of which the subcostal, mediastinal, postical and 

 anal veins and the stem of the cubital fork rather yellowish brown ; 

 stigma yellowish ; posterior cells widely open, discal cell moderate in 

 size and about as long as the second posterior cell, and anal cell closed 

 well before the wing-margin ; upper branch of the cubital fork with- 

 out any recurrent veinlet. Squamae in the alar pair brownish with 

 darker margin and tiny inconspicuous brownish fringe, excepting of 

 the long whitish tuft about the angle ; in the thoracal pair paler and 

 yellowish, with a brownish margin and a less inconspicuous yellowish 

 brown fringe. Halteres dark brown with the stem and the top of the 

 knob yellowish. 



Legs blackish but the extreme tip of the femora yellowish and 



