80 H. C. EKFLATOUN. 



inconspicuous pubescence on the upper part ouly. Antennai duU 

 orange, but darkened about the base and often above the third 

 joint; tliere are soine tiny yellow hristles on the basai joints and 

 two long and four or five much smaller black bristles on the 

 second joint near the tip above; arista dull orange long and bare. 



Thorax and scutellum ail shining aeneous, clothed with rather 

 short, but dense, tawny pubescence; thorax nearly always with in- 

 dications of light grey stripes, which never quito reach the lower 

 luargin. 



Abdomen entircly the sanie uiiicolorous sliining ,Tncous, neat in 

 shape and graduaily decreasing in width from the base of the 

 second segment to the end. Pubescence more or Ic-ss tawny, rang- 

 ing from ail brownish-tawny to nearly ail pale yellow, but usually 

 brownish-tawny at the base. Venter shining black, with dull 

 yellowish-grey hind margins and pale yellow pubescence, but on the 

 dise of the fourth segment the pubescence is black and on the hind 

 margin there are two tufts of black bristles which overhang the 

 genitalia. Hypopygium rather large but not seen from above. and 

 almost symmetrical. 



Legs black, but the knees are rather broadly yellow including 

 almost half of the anterior and a third of the hind tibiae; anterior 

 tarsi orange at the base up to almost the end of the basai joint; 

 front coxae orange at the tip. Hind femora moderate, and but little 

 thicker than the others. Pubescence ail moderate in length and 

 fairly abundant, pale, except for a few bristly hairs beneath the 

 hind femora near the tip, and a few tiny bristles on the dark 

 tips of the anterior tibise and a part of the fringe inside the hind 

 tibiaa. 



Wings slightly tinged with brown, yellowish about the base, 

 with a fairly long and rather conspicuous stigma, which is dark at 

 the base; vena spuria hardly perceptible; the veinlets after cells 

 RI and R5 both turn upwards, cspecially the first; the basai por- 

 tion of Radius 2 + 3 bears bristles. Squanuilaa large, whitish-yellovv 

 with fringes of the same colour. Haltères yellow. 



Feviale: — Very similar to the malc. Frons at the vertex rather- 

 narrow and scarcely widening until near the antcnnae, shining 

 black above and on the puffed eut occiput, but brownish and 

 coarsely punctate and dull in the middle; shining black again 

 above the antennae, with a narrow luteous front margin ; its 

 pube.soence is brownish -yellow at the vertex, then black, then 

 luteous with hairs turned backwards, ending with pale yellow 

 hairs pointing l':\vard. The i)uhesceiice of the eyes, which is still 

 more limited than in the maie is hardly perceptible. The five dull 

 grey stripes on the thorax are nuich more distinct, and instead of 



