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fine brownish yellow pubescence and two brownish orange inconspicuous 

 bristles on the upper part. Proboscis normal, with the long hairs beneath 

 the basal half orange ; palpi moderately long and thin, and bearing numerous 

 porrect orange hairs. Antennae dull black, but with the base of the third 

 joint narrowly and obscurely ferruginous, and the two basal joints slightly 

 obscured by greyish dust; basal joint with short blackish yellow hairs and 

 beneath with longer black bristly hairs ; second joint with shorter black 

 bristly hairs ; basal joint slightly longer than the second ; second joint only 

 slightly cup-shaped on its apical half ; third joint long and strap-shaped, 

 quite as long (without the style) as the two basal joints together, very 

 slightly tapering on the apical quarter ; style hardly as long as the third 

 joint, at its base nearly as thick as the tip of the third joint and continuing 

 to taper slightly to its tip, but with its own basal joint short though slightly 

 longer than broad. 



Thorax yellowish ashy grey ; middle stripe blackish with deep black outer 

 margins, or (when viewed from behind) blackish with a broad dark greyish 

 brown middle part, broadening anteriorly but tapering posteriorly until it 

 ends in a point just before the hindmargin, or (when viewed from behind 

 quite horizontally) the end part and in fact the whole middle stripe may be 

 very obscure ; the true middle line is yellowish and very narrow, and exists 

 on the front part only ; side stripes broad, hardly so dark as the middle stripe 

 but faintly shining, restricted to the usual length and scarcely interrupted at 

 the suture, while the usual awl-shaped spots which follow not extending to the 

 hindmargin ; humeral stripes indicated by faint dark patches well in advance 

 of the side-stripes. Pubescence (as distinguished from bristles) on the disc 

 short, bristly, and black, not dense but extending over (though sparse on) the 

 side-stripes, and becoming longer and thinner haired after the suture but not 

 in the least confused with the dorso-central bristles, while fine-haired mainly 

 black pubescence occurs on the humeri and on the sides after the suture, but 

 becomes whitish yellow on the postalar calli and sparsely so across near the 

 hindmargin. Bristles strong, some black and some orange or yellow ; prte- 

 sutural three, long and strong, all black or probably varying in colour, and 

 one placed well forward ; supra-alar three in a row along the side of the 

 side-stripes, varying irregularly in colour ; postalar two, yellow ; dorso-central 

 all black, about four being postsutural and well distinguished on the ashy grey 

 stripes, and about four prsesutural smaller and closer together and dying out 

 anteriorly at about one-third the distance between the suture and the front. 

 Pleurae ashy grey, with practically all the pubescence and bristles yellow ; 

 pubescence normal on the prothorax and the space beneath ; mesopleurte 

 with thin hairs on the upper part and longer hairs (with perhaps one or two 

 black ones intermixed) down the hindmargin ; sternopleurae with rather 

 sparse and long hairs on the upper part ; pteropleurae -with a tuft of hairs on 

 the back part ; metapleuriB with fine-haired pubescence and with the usual 

 fan represented by about six (or more) very long bristly hairs which are 

 hardly in a row ; hypopleurae with very inconspicuous pale pubescence and 

 with a continuing fan composed of several very long thin haii-s. Scutellum 

 ashy grey, bearing thin-haired upturned yellowish pubescence and about two 

 long and three or four shorter upturned marginal bristles which are irregular 

 in colour ; metanotum greyish black, but rather densely covered with greyish 

 yellow dust on the sides, and bearing abundant brownish yellow pubescence 

 on the lower part of the lateral humps. 



Abdomen (when seen from above) brownish yellow, or (when seen side- 

 ways) yellowish on the disc of the second, third, and fourth segments but 

 yellowish ashy grey on the rest, or (when seen from behind) blackish brown 

 with conspicuous rather broad bare hindmarginal hems and sidemargins. 

 Pubescence mainly composed of short adpressed rather conspicuous yellowish 

 hairs (though Loew stated that small patches of black hairs sometimes occur 

 down the clorsal line, and that such patches when seen from in front are 

 darker and sometimes even cause an indistinct dark dorsal stripe) ; rather 

 long outstanding yellowish pubescence occurs on the sides of the two basal 

 segments, and prcehindmarginal rows of bristly hairs and bristles occur on 

 the segments, the one on the basal segment being composed of hair-like 

 bristles across the middle but of five or six long thin bristles towards each 



