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blackish above and clove-brown below. Spot below callus velvet black, almost 

 divided into two from beneath by a grey streak. Antennae wholly black ; first joint 

 moderately shining, swollen, not quite three times as long as its gi'eatest breadth. 

 Paljn light grey, clothed with whitish hairs towards the base, shorter black ones on 

 the apical two-thirds. 



Pig. 1. Haematopota ptdchella. Edw.. sp ii. 



Thorax dark, almost blackish brown above, with conspicuous pale markings, as 

 follows : Margins of scutum as far as the wing-base greyish ; a pair of rather narrow 

 but sharply defined creamy hnes extending from the front margin to the conspicuous 

 post-sutural spots ; usually a short very narrow median stripe from the front margin ; 

 a large creamy area just in front of the scutellum, almost as broad as the latter and 

 produced forward into three points, also with a small lateral extension which is some- 

 times joined to a small pale spot just interior to the post-alar caUi. Scutellum 

 brownish cream-coloured, with large dark brown lateral spots. Mesonotum very 

 sparsely clothed with short dark and yellowish hair ; some black hair in front of 

 wing base ; a tuft of whitish hair on the post-alar calh. Pleurae gre}'ish. 



Abdomen blackish-brown, the first two or three segments usually more or less reddish 

 brown, this colour sometimes extending over the greater part of the abdomen ; hind 

 margins of all the segments narrowly pale ; tergites 4 to 6 or sometimes 3 to 6 with 

 pairs of inconspicuous paler spots near the base. Whole dorsal surface of the abdomen 

 clothed with short black hair, except on the lateral margins, where the hair is rather 

 longer and white. Venter greyish. 



Legs : Front legs black ; coxae whitish on the basal half, which is clothed with 

 long white hair ; tibiae mnderately thickened towards the tip, a broad white ring 

 near the base. Middle le^i black ; tibiae with two conspicuous creamy rings ; 

 metatarsus pale at the base. Hind legs blackish ; femora rather fighter at the base 



