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4th vein is strongly sinuated into the 1st posterior cell, after which it con- 

 tinues its original course to the costa ; anterior transverse obUque, the 

 posterior sinuated into the discal cell and parallel to the posterior margin 

 of the wing ; the 1st basal cell is closed proxinially by a cross-vein from 

 the 1st longitudinal ; anal cell longer than the 2nd basal, the anal cross-vein 

 forming an acute angle with the anal vein, which is shghtly curved at the 

 tip to meet the posterior margin of the wing : the anal angle developed. 

 Halteres with a Ught-brown stalk and a brown head. 



Legs not especially elongate, blackish-brown, but hghter in certain 

 hghts, more particularly the femora. Posterior legs the longest, but not 

 thickened : femora with dorsal and ventral bristles, the former short and 

 extending the full length of the femora, the latter longer and occupying the 

 proximal three-quarters only ; tibiae slightly thickened distally and clothed 

 with a dense vestiture of short bristle-like hairs, while ventrally is a lono 

 pre-apical bristle and dorsally a double row of 4 long bristles with nume- 

 rous shorter ones ; metatarsi about three times as long as the following 

 joint, and bearing a double row of longer bristles and a pre-apical, up- 

 right shghtly curved bristle on each of the other joints. Middle legs short : 

 femora swollen, narrowing distally, and constricted at the articulation with 

 the coxae ; the dorsal bristles short, the ventral on the proximal half a httle 

 longer, and those on distal half nearly straight and much larger, with smaller 

 ones interspersed ; tibiae of a uniform thickness, shghtly curved and angu- 

 lated at the knee, but not with a dense vestiture; ventrally on the distal 

 two-thirds is a double row of short but strong bristles, becoming smaller 

 apically, and dorsally a pair of very long spines, one proximal, the other 

 central ; there are no apical bristles, but the lower corner is shghtly pro- 

 duced tooth-hke ; tarsi shortened, the vestiture of brownish hairs with 

 longer bristles like those of the posterior tarsi, but the apical spines are short, 

 the metatarsi not quite twice as long as the following joint. Anterior leo-s : 

 femora club-shaped, tapering distally, with long bristles on the ventral distal 

 half only ; tibiae slender, of a uniform thickness, with 3 long dorsal spines 

 and a 4th very long proximal one ; tarsi slender, the metatarsi elongate, 

 about three times as long as the following joint, and with a vestiture similar 

 to that of the middle tarsi ; anterior coxae not greatly elongated. 



Abdomen elongate, hnear, and brownish-black, but greyish on the sides 

 of the base, not ventrally dilated, and witli a few white hairs on the sides, 

 longer on the 1st segment ; on the anterior margin of each segment is a 

 row of spots (sometimes hidden Ijy the overlapping of the preceding seo- 

 ment), and a pair of discal ones on each side, the anterior spot being nearer 

 the lateral margin. Hypopygium prominent, in profile (fig. 13) the upper 

 portion, roughly speaking, cone- 

 shaped, from the upper side of 

 which projects a curved knobbed 

 hairy structure with a pre-apical 

 posterior tubercle, the lower por- 

 tion being a massive shiny-black 

 chitinous claw strongly upturned 

 towards the apex ; from above is a 

 pair of massive claws, one opposed 

 to the other (fig. 14) (between the 

 bases of which arises the knobbed 

 structure), the inner edge of each bearing short strong spines, the inter 

 vening space being occupied by the lower claw, which is apparently 



Fig. 1.3.— Side view of 



hypopygium. 



Fig. 14. — Dorsal 

 view of hypipy- 

 gium. 



