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cences, which protrude well in front of the antennae, surround 

 the mesofacial plate, and gradually die out at the oral margin. 

 Front slightly under three-fifths the width of eye ; gense, 

 metacephalon, and parafrontals brightly golden pollinose. 

 First antennal joint concealed ; second rather large, pitchy 

 black, slightly punctate, with a few small bristles ; third joint 

 black, with a very faint silvery bloom, and about two and a 

 half times the length of second. Mesofacial plate golden, 

 with darker borders. Cheek height about two -fifths that of eye. 

 Eye rather small, dark red-brown. A single row of ten rather 

 small frontal bristles present ; verticals large ; lateral verticals 

 absent. A single row of black bristles behind eyes ; meta- 

 cephalon covered with short pale-golden hairs, growing much 

 longer below on the genae ; anterior part of gense lightly 

 clothed with pale-golden hairs. Proboscis and palps as usual. 



Thorax at its broadest about the width of the head ; colour 

 rather ashy, faintly golden, with the usual three very dark 

 brown longitudinal stripes, the middle one alone extending 

 on to scutellum. Anterior spiracle large and clothed with 

 pale -golden hairs. Sides grey and golden ; -under side grey 

 and golden, the former predominating. Of the anterior 

 acrostichals only the posterior pair is well developed ; of the 

 posterior set, only the prescutellars are differentiated, being 

 rather large. Dorsocentral row normal ; apical scutellars well 

 developed ; two intra-alars present. Three humerals, the 

 lowest extending just beyond pronotum ; a single post-humeral. 



Legs black and grey. First femur golden beneath ; longi- 

 tudinal rows of bristles complete ; femur only very slightly 

 hairy proximo-ventrally ; tibia not hairy. Second femur 

 clothed with short hairs proximo-ventrally ; a well-defined 

 " comb " present ; tibia longer than tarsus. Last femur 

 heavily clothed with short hairs ; distal two-thirds of tibia 

 hairy ; tibia longer than tarsus. 



Abdomen conical and rather longer than thorax, with the 

 usual black and white markings, the longitudinal black line 

 not extending on to last segment. Upper surface with short 

 reclinate bristles ; lower surface moderately hairy. 



First segment of hypopygium black, faintly golden 

 pollinose, hairy ; second segment rather small, shiny black, 

 very hairy. Forceps shiny black or very dark brown, faintly 

 sculptured, sharply pointed, hairy ; upper half approximated, 



