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and the hindmargin (but almost interrupted at the suture), and followed 

 by the usual rather more dorsal awl-shaped blackish patches which point 

 backwards but do not reach the hindmargin ; humeral stripes distinct 

 though short. Pubescence black not scarce nor very short, about equal and 

 rather sloping backwards from the front part to behind the suture, but after 

 that rather longer and more erect as it mixes with the longer bristles, 

 whUe there is as usual a little thin pale pubescence about the front part of 

 the humeri and on the sides, and more especially just before and on the 

 front part of the postalar calli. Bristles composed of about four pra;sutural ; 

 (3-5, of which sometimes 1-2 smaller ones are more forward and wide apart) ; 

 three long strong and two smaller supra-alar, besides two or three almost 

 intra-alar continued in a sort of row towards the lower part of the disc ; 

 numerous postalar (about six, besides smaller bristly hairs) ; several dorso- 

 central which are not very strongly distinguished from the long bristly hairs 

 near them, but with about five (5-8) postsutural (not extended back to near 

 the hindmargin) and about two rather indistinct prsesutural close to the suture 

 are fairly distinct. Pleurte yellowish grey on the upper part of the meso- 

 pleurse but rather dark ashy grey on the rest ; pubescence long and yellowish 

 on the pro thorax and on the space below it, on tlie upper and back parts 

 of the mesopleurae, extensively on the upper part of the stemopleurse, and 

 less conspicuously on the upper part of the pteropleurse, AvhUe the metapleurai 

 bear a fan of about six almost hairlike bristles and numerous shorter 

 hairs, and the hypoj^leurte bear a fan composed of about four long thin 

 straggly hairs and several shorter ones. Scutellum blackish gi'ey, but 

 shimmering lighter grey in some lights, Avith sparse not short black jjubes- 

 cence on the disc and sometimes two or three longer hairs, and about four 

 (2-4) weak upturned black marginal bristles- metanotum grey, but rather 

 shining blackish on the middle part, and witn some slight broA\-nish yellow 

 pubescence on the humps at the hind corners. 



Abdomen shining black, with a slight bluish tinge ; the bare hind- 

 marginal hem of the second and third segments (and sometimes of the fourth) 

 shimmering greyish white at the sides (and in some lights narrowly all 

 across), while the base of the second segment is obscurely greyish in 

 some lights, and the whole sidemargin from the base to the end of the 

 fifth segment is greyish. Pubescence on the disc short black depressed and 

 l)ristly, but on the three basal segments long silky scattered outstanding and 

 reddish orange, and this latter pubescence extends to the sides of the fourth 

 and fifth segments and nowhere shows any approximation to bristles 

 even though it forms fringes against the bare hindmarginal hems and is 

 rather longer and stiffer at the sides of the basal segment, unless the two or 

 three strong orange hairs near the sides of the hindmargins of the fourth and 

 fifth segments can be deemed strong enough to be called bristles. Belly dull 

 greyish black, with long pendent orange pubescence on the five basal segments 

 which is more conspicuous on the dropped (when seen sideways) hind- 

 margins of the fourth and fifth segments ; the pubescence on the sixth and 

 seventh segments is black and stifler and almost forms tufts at the hind- 

 margins, especially on the seventh segment, and these black hairs are rather 

 sloped towards the genitalia, but a few tawny hairs occur on the disc of the 

 sixth segment, whUe on the fifth segment some of the dorsal black pubes- 

 cence becomes rather longer towards the sides and extends over ventrallj^ ; 

 the hindmargin of the sixth segment is also dropped like that of the two 

 preceding segments, but that of the seventh segment is straight and quite 

 normal ; eighth segment so short as to be indistinct both dorsally and ventrally. 

 Genitalia comparatively small, shining black ; claspers (when seen sideways) 

 long, equal, and sloping straight downwards until they gradually shelve off to 

 the lower angle, and this angle is prolonged and curved inwards as described 

 when seen from above ; the claspers bear moderately long stiff black 

 pubescence, with a few orange hairs about the tip ; when seen from above, 

 each clasper has at about two-thirds of its length a strong inward projection 

 so that ordinarily these projections meet and enclose a large oval space, while 

 the claspers open out after the projections and enclose a smaller rounded 

 space Avhich is closed at the tip by the incurved and ordinarily overlapping 

 narrow ends ; all round this circular end enclosure is a moderately long not 



