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callus is wider and with its borders straight, the paired spots are 

 smaller and further removed from the frontal callus. Thorax with 

 no stripes visible as a rule, brown with short fulvous pubescence. 

 Scutellum similar. Abdomen brown or blackish brown with some 

 greyish yellow tomentum which in some specimens appears as 

 lateral spots, but in the type the colour of abdomen is uniform with 

 some pale yellowish pubescence at sides. Wings very similar to 

 those of H. inconspicua, n. sp., the apical band similar, and the 

 transverse bars near posterior border of wing, but on the border 

 there are no light markings in the apices of the cells. In all other 

 respects similar to H. inconspicua, from which however it is very 

 distinct. Length t^^pe 8 mm., others 8 — 9 mm. 



Group VII. 



Antennae long and slender, the first joint as long as the second 

 and third together. 



Haematopota cilipes, 2 , Bigot. 



Nouv. Archiv. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. Paris (3), ii, p. 205 (1890) : 

 id.^ Bull. Soc. Zool. France, xvi, p. 77 (i8qi) ; Ricardo. Ann. Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. (8), i, p. 57 (1908). 



Length 11 mm. 



Antennae chestnut coloured, elongated, the first segment not 

 incrassate, as long as all the others taken together, the third joint 

 at base very much longer than the apical ones together ; palpi and 

 face ashy grey, beard white ; forehead black-brown, at the base 

 shining chestnut coloured, marked with two lateral black spots ; 

 the. whole body black-brown. Thorax ashy grey behind, with 

 narrow margins, pleurae ashy grey ; calyptrae and hal teres brown; 

 wings almost black with white markings and spots ; anterior and 

 posterior tibiae fringed below with thick short black hairs, anterior 

 legs black, tibiae at base white, intermediate femora and tarsi 

 dull chestnut coloured, intermediate tibiae pale fulvous, uase, apex 

 and median ring brown, posterior legs similarly coloured, femora 

 above with long white pubescence. 



Antennae rather slender, much longer than the head, brownish, 

 at the base slightly reddish, the first joint narrow, the first annula- 

 tion of the third joint much longer than the following ones to- 

 gether ; palpi and face grey; beard white; forehead blackish, a 

 transverse irregular callus above the base of the antennae, shining 

 red, two black spots near the eyes ; bodj' wholly blackish, with the 

 posterior border of thorax and of the abdominal segments very nar- 

 rowly bordered with gre}' colour ; calyptrae and halteres brownish, 

 wings blackish with white markings and rather scattered spots ; 

 anterior and posterior tibiae shortly and densely fringed black ; 

 anterior legs black, the tibiae whitish at base, intermediate and 

 posterior legs brownish, the tibiae fawn coloured, black at base 

 and apex, ornamented with a median black ring, the posterior 

 femora furnished above with white hairs. Laos i specimen. 



