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border-hairs pale. Venter dark brown, with basal white 

 bands. Legs dark purple-brown ; ft mora pale beneath ; 

 femora and tibiae with small pale apical spots ; tibiae with 

 indistinct lines of pale scales on inner surface. Ungues equal 

 and simple. Wings with brown scales, blue-black on costa ; 

 first submarginal cell longer and narrower than second poste- 

 rior • stem more than ^ length of cell ; stem of second poste- 

 rior | the length of the cell ; posterior cross-vein oblique and 

 double its own length from the mid cross-vein. Halteres 

 pale, stem with brown knob. 

 Length 3*5 mm. 



g . — Resembles the female. Palpi dark brown ; apical 

 segments blue-black, with dark brown hairs; longer than 

 proboscis by length of terminal segment, Scutellum with 

 seven or eight bristles on the mid lobe. Abdomen very hairy. 

 Ungues on fore and mid legs large, unequal, and uniserrate ; 

 on hind legs small, equal, and simple. Wings : stem of first 

 submarginal somewhat more than ^ length of cell ; stem of 

 second posterior equal to length of cell ; posterior cross-vein 

 double its own length from the mid cross-vein. 

 Length 3' 5 mm. 



Myxosquamus paludosus, sp. n. 



$ , — Head black, covered with blue-black scales with 

 purple iridescence; some black upright forked scales behind; 

 orbital bristles dark brown. Palpi dark purple-brown 

 (almost black). Clypeus dark brown. Proboscis black, with 

 blue iridescence, unhanded. Antennae: basal segment black, 

 with a few narrow scales on inner half ; second segment 

 \ellow at insertion into basal segment ; plume-hairs dark 

 brown. Thorax black, covered with brown, and coarse blue- 

 black narrow curved scales, showing two longitudinal bare 

 lines ; on each side, external to these lines a row of black 

 bristles running the whole length of mesonotum and all 

 directed backwards ; thick-set patches of similar bristles above 

 and behind the wing-insertion. Scutellum : mid lobe with a 

 median area of blue-black small flat scales surrounded behind 

 and at the sides by purple-brown, coarse, narrow, curved 

 scales ; lateral lobes with purple-brown narrow curved scales ; 

 six dark brown bristles to mid, seven to each lateral lobe. 

 Pleura dark brown, with white-scaled patches. Metanotum 

 dark brown. Abdomen covered with dark brown scales, 

 unhanded and tapering to the apex ; with basal lateral white 

 spots, except upon the terminal segment ; border-hairs dark 

 brown. Venter black, with basal white bands except on the 



