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and situated at the base of the antennae; all the ce- 

 phalic bristles are pale yellowish, except the lower 

 superior orbitals and the three much larger inferior 

 Orbitals blackish; the upper superior orbitals are bent 

 upwards and outwards. 



Thorax, scutellum and mesophrairma entirely 

 black, but clothed with a dense yellowish-grey or 

 sometimes cinereous, tomentum; the pubescence on 

 the disc consists of rather thick, adpressed, pale yellow 

 hairs and along the front border, especially on the 

 humeri, it is often longer and decidedly bristly; all 

 the bristles on the pleurae are short and pale yellow 

 but on the disc they are brownish at the apex and 

 inserted on small blackish dots; the pteropleural bris- 

 tle is stronger than the mesopleural bristle and the 

 sternopleural even stronger; scutellum with two basal 

 scutellar bristles only, which are long, parallel, or 

 convergent, and placed rather distant from the base. 



Abdomen short, broad, entirely yellowish or 

 greyish-yellow , and without any bristles except at the 

 apex of the male, usually with a row of longish bristly 

 hairs; the pubescence is similar to that of the thorax, 

 but somewhat less dense and longer at the apex of 

 the first segment on the sides; male hypopygium 

 small, rounded, dark yellowish-grey; female ovipo- 

 sitor almost as long as the three apical segments to- 

 gether, flat, conical and very shining black. 



Legs entirely yellow and rather bare; front fe- 

 moia with a row of four blackish bristles beneath and 

 a row of much weaker yellowish bristles on the side 

 and above. 



AVings with a black wing pattern, radiating at 



