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barely larger than louer ones, not clearly deinarcated, with 

 moderately short dense pubescence, which appears gre^^ or brown 

 according to the point of view; vertex black, with a few long 

 whitish hairs ; ocelli reddish ; frontal triangle blaclc, \\ith rather 

 long soft whitish hair ; face and lower part of head black, with 

 greyish-white pubescence ; proboscis dull yellowish ; palpi reddish 

 brown; antenual 1st and 2nd joints black, 3rd joint reddish 

 brown to yellowish, first four annulations much broader and more 

 distinct than the rest, which form a narrow blackish cylindrical 

 tip ; a reddish-brown ring round base of autennal prominence. 

 In 5,frons forming 5 to i width of head, a little narrower at 

 vertex, witli short whitish-grey or brownish-grey pubescence ; 

 lower part of frons shining, practically bare, except for a bunch 

 of drooping whitish hairs near each ej^e-margin above level of 

 antennae ; the four basal annulations of 3rd joint rather broader 

 than in d . Thorax black, dorsum wholly covered with whitish- 

 grey tomentose pubescence ; in perfect specimens, if viewed from 

 in front, a median stripe surrounded by four spots arranged in a 

 square can be seen, composed of gold-brown tomentose pubescence ; 

 some longer whitish-grey hairs below shoulders. 8cutellum large, 

 with grey and golden-brown admixture of tomentose pubescence ; 

 spine placed at each hind corner, yellowish brown ; a fringe of 

 white hairs depends from the hind margin. Abdomen black ; 2nd 

 segment wholly, 3rd narrowly on hind margin and more broadly 

 towards sides and along side-margin of segment, 4th broadly 

 on hind margin (especially towards and along tlie side-margins), 

 oth with a large median triangular spot (its base on hind margin 

 of segment), very shortly but distinctly whitish (occasionally rather 

 golden) pubescent ; ground-colour of extreme side-margins of 

 segments brownish orange ; venter blackish, with extremely short 

 whitish pubescence. Legs : coxse black, brownish orange at tips ; 

 hind pair brownish orange behind; femora and tibiae rather shining 

 black, the former brownish orange at base and narrowly at tips ; 

 tibiae broadly brownish yellow at base, narrowly brown at tips ; 

 fr.)nt tarsi blackish, posterior metatarsi yellowish, remaining 

 joints brown; all legs with short greyish pubescence, which is 

 more brownish yellow on tarsi, especially the front pair. Wings 

 grey, yellowish brown about the centre ; stigma slightly darker 

 brown ; halteres yellow. 



Length, 6;i-9 mm. 



Driscribed from a long series of both sexes in the Indian 

 Museum, Pusa collection and my own, from many parts of India 

 and Ceylon, where it appears to be generally distributed and 

 common from March to October on rotten papaya-stems, plan- 

 tains, and melons. 



Mr. Hewlett has taken it " at sex play around dead leaves, 

 Pusa, 15. iii. 1912." 



Larva. This is 11 mm. in length, whitish, oblong, the 4th seg- 

 ment truncate, the three anterior segments much narrower and 

 apparently withdrawable into the 4th ; 1st segment rattier elon- 

 gate, verv narrow; 4th to 12th segments about equal in lengrh, 



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