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

 ones sometimes very slightly narrowed towards the margin ; anal cell 

 closed moderately long before the margin ; discal cell not very large, 

 slightly longer than or about as long as the first posterior cell ; the 

 upper branch of the cubital fork almost always bearing a recurrent veinlet 

 but often wanting it. Squamae in the alar pair dark grey with a rather 

 blackish margin and an inconspicuous pale fringe excepting on the mode- 

 rately long pale orange yellow tuft about the angle, in the thoracal pair 

 orange yellow with a slightly brownish margin and a more conspicuous 

 brownish fringe. Halteres brown, with the knob dark brown but its top 

 almost always pale yellowish grey. 



Legs dull blackish brown to dull brown, with all the tibiae 

 (except about the apical part) and the extreme tips of the femora 

 yellowish ; fore coxae dilated and about three-fourth as long as the 

 fore temora, covered with a dense yellowish grey tomentum and with 

 numerous long pale yellowish grey pubescence which becomes shorter 

 towards the apex but there is no blackish pubescence ; femora slightly 

 covered with a pale yellowish grey tomentum leaving a broad shining 

 dark castaneous subfemoral bare space which is very finely transversely 

 striolate and is somewhat hollowed out but very narrowly (or some- 

 times entirely not), at the inside of this space bearing short black 

 ciliation of numerous rather dense somewhat bristly hairs, pubescence 

 on the outside long, erect, yellowish and blackish, which becomes 

 shorter and sloping on the upper margin, while the pubescence on the 

 innerside much shorter, depressed, all black ; middle femora almost 

 always slightly paler than the front pair, slightly covered with a yellowish 

 grey tomentum, and bearing numerous short depressed yellowish pubes- 

 cence which becomes more erect and conspicuously longer on the 

 outer-lower side ; hind femora coloured, tomentose, and pubescent 

 similarly as the middle femora, but the pubescence only lengthened on 

 the underside ; front tibiae narrow, very slightly curved, apical two- 

 third blackish but gradually palened towards the base, pubescence very 



