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browuisli-yellow. Pleura) nearly blackish-grey, with fan-shaped 

 rows of yellow hairs on mesopleura, stevnopleura and ptero- 

 pleura. "Sciitelhun brownish-yellow, with rather dense yellow 

 pubescence. Ahdomen: 1st segment orange-yellowish-grey, a 

 little yellow pubescence at sides, rest brownisli-orangv- ; 2nd, 3rd 

 and 4th secments with two transverse blackish-brown bands on 



Fig. m.—Merodon intervcidcns. Walk., liciid in profile. 



each, those on 2nd segment a little arcuate, the others nearly 

 straight, all placed a little behind anterior margin or a little in 

 front of hind margin, leaving a rather broad intervening space 

 between each pair of bands, the black bands varying a httle 

 in width and intensity. Venter brownish-yellow, with darker 

 marks. Genitalia brownish-orange, tip black. Leys brownish or 



F\g. W.—Merodoii in/ervciiiois, Walk., liintl rpinur aiui tibia. 



browuish-orange, upjjor side of anterior femora blackish ; anterior 

 tibia; more or less blackisli in parts; middle jiair paler. Fore 

 tarsi mainly dark brown, last joint paler; middle tarsi nearly 

 wholly pale. Hind femora orange, above and below towards tips, 

 and on apical half on inner side, blackisli. Hind libiic dark 

 brown, hind tar,'*! brownish-orange, the colour apparently varying 



