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yellowish hairs. Epistoma with very inconspicuous, pale hairs below. 

 Occiput black or bluish black, with whitish hairs below, yellow above. 

 Antennæ somewhat elongate, third joint twice as long as broad; they 

 are black or brownish black, third joint more or less yellow beneath 

 at base; arista not longer than third joint. Thorax æneous, densely 

 punctate, somewhat shining; it is clothed with quite short, yellowish, 

 on the disc brownish, hairs. Pleura more shining, with a little longer, 

 paler hairs. Abdomen with the second segment narrowest behind the 

 front end, the sides evenly incurved ; the abdomen is black or a little 

 bluish black, densely punctate, shining; it has two yellow bands, one 

 on the middle of second segment, the other at the front margin of 

 third segment, occupying about the front half of the segment; the 

 band on second segment is broader or narrower, it may be more or 

 less incised in the middle and sometimes divided, and generally it 

 slopes backwards at the sides, either going over the side margin or 

 abbreviated; the second band is only rarely a little incised or in single 

 cases narrowly divided. Abdomen is clothed with short hairs, they 

 mainly follow the ground colour, but are pale at the basal corners of 

 fourth segment; they are likewise pale and a little longer at the side 

 margins of second segment, and somewhat long and whitish at the 

 basal corners of abdomen. Venter coloured as dorsum, and similarly 

 haired with quite short hairs. Legs yellow or reddish yellow, anterior 

 femora often more or less indistinctly blackish or brownish about the 

 middle; anterior tibiæ with a small, blackish or brownish ring in the 

 middle ; hind femora black with the basal third or fourth yellow, hind 

 tibiæ with a broad, black ring below the middle, sometimes leaving 



Fig. 140. Wing of N.podagrica d", 



only base and apex yellow; hind metatarsus and the two last joints 

 black or brown, generally also the front metatarsi more or less dark 

 above, and likewise the last joints of the middle tarsi. Legs short- 

 haired, middle femora with a row of longer hairs below, and hind 

 femora with long hairs above; hind tibiæ with a short but dense 

 fringe below in about the apical half; the hairs are pale, only on the 



