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proboscis. Prothoracic lobes with large curved spines in ?, smaller in If! ; mesothorax 

 and scutellinn with narrow-curved scales, the whole thorax with long dense-curved 

 backwardly projecting chaetiB. Abdomen densely hairy in the $, especially ventrally, 

 also hairy in !^. Wings with only median vein scales, spatulate in the $, some lateral 

 broad short scales on the second vein, etc., iu the $. Fork-cells short in both sexes, 

 the first with its base nearer the apex of the wing than the second. 



Hispidimyia HUpidimnia hispida, Theobald 



Mi>m,. ridicid. v., p. 245 (191U) 



Head brilliant creamy-white ; proboscis ochreous, dark at apex ; palpi of ^ clavate, 

 a little longer than proboscis, ochreous, dark brown on clavate area, which is spiny 

 below, apex spiny ; antennae flaxen-brown. Thorax rich brown with two median pale 

 23arallel shiny lines, which seem to continue around the bare space before the scutellum, a 

 darkened area on each side of the parallel lines in front ; pleurae pale ochreous. Abdomen 

 deep brown with basal lateral yellow spots which form almost a continuous line on each 

 side, densely hairy. Legs unhanded, deep brown, except base and under side of femora, 

 with brassy reflections ;' tibiae spinose. Wings with scanty brown scales. 



$ Head clothed with flat creamy-white scales with ochreous and iridescent reflections, 

 a small area near the nape of narrow-curved golden scales, a larger area of black upright 

 forked scales and some almost golden along the nape ; four long black chaetae on each 

 side on the ocular border projecting inwards, a few small short golden chiEtae in front 

 between the eyes and two long black chaetae ; there is a median parting of the flat scales. 



Clypeus apparently very small ; proboscis ochreous with some dark scales above, dark 

 at the apex, which is slightly swollen ; palpi a little longer than the proboscis, clavate and 

 blunt at the apices, ochreous below, some dark scales above, clavate area black with 

 violet reflections ; clavate area with black chaetae below, two large black apical chaeta and 

 some smaller ones. 



Antennae with the segments thick and short, except the last two, which are long, thin 

 and pilose, rest with dense flaxen-brown plume hairs ; basal segment very large, globular 

 and dark. 



Thorax rich ochreous brown, clothed with black narrow-curved scales, showing bronzy- 

 metallic reflections, leaving two median bare parallel lines ; bare space in front of the 

 scutellum, pale, especially at the sides, the area looking like a continuation of the two bare 

 pale median lines ; numerous black, backwardly curved chaetae, a patch of small golden 

 ones before the base of the wing ; scutellum shiny, with pale reflections like the bare space 

 before it, clothed with narrow-curved bronzy scales ; six posterior border-bristles, three on 

 each side of the mid lobe ; metanotum ochreous brown, darker in the middle ; prothoracic 

 lobes ochreous with numerous long curved brown chietae, with bright golden reflections, 

 pleura3 pale ochreous, with grey reflections, some dusky and white semi-transparent 

 flat scales. 



Abdomen clothed with black scales with dull violet reflections, each segment with large 

 basal lateral yellowish spots, which on some of the segments extend to their apical borders, 

 last segment with many ochreous scales ; posterior border-bristles golden, dense lateral 

 and apical bristles brown, with golden reflections ; venter densely hairy. 



Legs blackish-brown, with dull violet reflections ; femora pale-creamy at the base and 

 below, fore femora spinose and all the tibiae, especially of the hind legs ; fore ungues 

 unequal, the larger biserrate, the smaller simple. 



