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on the sternopleurae, the black pubescence on the mesopleurae becom- 

 ing longer and more denser on about the postero-upper four-fifths ; 

 prothorax paler than the pleurae, and covered with abundant long 

 yellowish grey hairs, the similar pubescence on the pteropleurae ; on 

 the postero-upper margins of the nieso- and meta-pleurae there are 

 long pale brownish yellow-grey fringe. Scutellum as the thorax; but 

 the pubescence all slightly longer and along the margin with abundant 

 conspicuous yellowish hairs. 



Wings slightly shorter than the thorax and abdomen together, 

 moderately tinged with brownish but more or less yellowish 

 towards the base ; the costal cell rather conspicuously brownish yellow, 

 stigma pale brown, and the veins brown excepting of the postical, 

 radial, and cubital veins, more or less yellowish ; discal cell as usual 

 and slightly longer than the first posterior cell which is slightly but 

 distinctly contracting towards the margin, the remaining posterior cells 

 all widely open, the anal cell closed with a long petiole ; upper branch 

 of the cubital fork with a distinct recurrent veinlet. Squamae in the 

 alar pair grey, with a dark brown margin and with a dense pale brown- 

 ish yellow-grey fringe excepting of the long greyish yellow tuft about 

 the angle ; in the thoracal pair pale reddish brown, with the deep 

 castaneous brown margin, and with a pale brownish yellow fringe. 

 Halteres blackish brown, with the extreme tip of the knobs dull 

 brownish yellow. 



Legs blackish, with the tibiae reddish brown and more or less 

 darkened apically ; front coxae dilated and about four-fifths as long as 

 the front femora, clothed with a dense yellowish brown tomentum 

 which becomes paler towards the apex, and bearing an abundant brownish 

 black pubescence which on the outer basal part is intermixed with 

 rather abundant yellowish hairs ; front femora at the extreme apex 

 yellowish, very slightly covered with a greyish tomentum leaving a broad 

 shining black subfemoral bare space which is distinctly transversely 

 striolate and is slightly hollowed out at the apical part, clothed with mime- 



