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surface of the e|)istouie, which foi-ins a large, heart-shaped plate, 

 covered with short grey hairs ; 3rd segment of antennae shining 

 black, large and appearing globular (somewhat shrivelled in the 

 specimens) ; arista arising from the upper and outer surface, 

 directed outwards and downwards, narrowing to a rather blunt 

 apex, bare, its basal portion stout ; proboscis not visible, and no 

 traces of palpi ; lower part of face broad, elongated and thickly 

 covered with light grey liairs. 'Jliorax a little longer than broad; 

 ground-colour dark brown with two somewhat indistinct narrow 

 black stripes, better marked in front of the suture, converging 

 slightly in front and diverging a little towards the suture : behind 

 the suture the stripes are broader and end about half way to the 

 scutellum ; mesopleura covered with long greyish-yellow hairs 

 forming a conspicuous tuft ; dorsal surface of thorax covered 

 with short dark brown hairs but without any black shining 

 tuberosities as in the c? of //. diana; scutellum prominent, bifid, 

 its extremities forming prominent shining black bosses, with a 

 tuft of bright orange hairs between them. Abdomen: the true 

 2nd segment is black, without any hairs ; first ajiparent (true 8rd) 

 segment 1'omm. long, thickly covered with long golden liiiirs, 

 prominent on upper surface and at sides ; 2nd apparent (true 4th) 

 segment about as long as the apparent 1st and sparsely covered 

 with hairs ; 3rd apparent (ti'ue 5th) segment luirrower and clothed 

 with similar hairs ; 4th apparent (true 6th) segment smaller and 

 hidden under a])parent 3rd ; external genital armature concealed. 

 Ler/s long ; femora dark brown, broad and covered with light and 

 dark brown liairs, their apices light brown ; tibia3 more slender, 

 similar in colour and also provided with hairs, with two rather 

 short black bristles at tlie sides of the inner surface of the lower 

 end, which is lighter brown in colour ; tarsi light brown, 1st seg- 

 ment equal in length to the three succeeding segments together, 

 the two apical segments darker in colour; claws black, long, 

 curved and markedly pointed ; pulvilli well developed. Wings 

 dark yellow with numerous ribs along the posterior border ; 

 venation shown in text-tig. 1 (Patton,o/). cit.) ; anterior cross-vein 

 thickened, forming a dark spot with a short a])pendix on each side ; 

 4th longitudinal vein with a very short, upwardly-directed appendix 

 just in front of the discal cross-vein ; a clear line nnis outwards 

 from the outer appendix of the anterior cross-vein ; tiiere is a 

 minute light spot on the costa just before its termination ; 

 halteres brown : squamae well developed, large, greyish-yellow. 



$ . Length 12 mm., including the partially extended ovipositor. 

 General colour light olive-green with brown and golden hairs. 

 Hcml : eyes widely separated ; frons nearly twice the width of 

 the eye; inner and posterior margins of eyes meeting at a point 

 about level with the lower end of the ocellar plate, which is 

 heart-shaped; ocelli amber-coloured: frontal strijic reddish- 

 brown, narrow, widening just above antftiuue ; parafrontalia dark 

 grey with yellow pubescence and brown hairs ; ptilinal suture as 

 in c? ; 3rd segment of antenn;e larger than lliat of (i' , black, 



