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on lar<jo tubercle coniposfd of stout black bristles and a few 

 weaker yellow ones below. Polp'i black with black |}nbes- 

 cence. Heard pale yellow. Prol)o>cis ciotbed with pale 

 \cllowon its under surface. Anle'nrta: black; the tirst two 

 joints with black hairs and bristles, the third bare, the 

 second is two-thirds the length of the first ; the third is 

 almost as long as the first two joints to;;etlier, with a 

 terniinal l)ristle nearly as long as itself. Foreliead same 

 colour as face, with black hairs. Thorax with a median and 

 side stripes deep black in colour, tlie rest of the dorsum is 

 clothed with golden-yellowish tomentum and with short 

 black hairs. Prresutural bristles three, supra-alar two, 

 ))ostalar two ; the dorso-central bristles numerous, reaching 

 the suture, all are stout and black, interspersed with smaller, 

 finer, biistlc-like liairs. Scvtellum the same golden yellow 

 as thorax or rather paler with sliort black pubescence and 

 with four very stout l)lack bristles on its posterior border. 

 Abdomen Ijlackish, showing traces of yellowisli, or grey, or 

 brown tomentum. with bright yellow hairs on the ])()sterior 

 borders of segments, which become longer and more like 

 bristles at the sides ; the dorsum elsewhere with fine black 

 pubescence ; underside greyish yellow, with yellow pubes- 

 cence. Genitalia large and prominent, black with black 

 hairs ; the last segment on the underside with a finger-like 

 stout process clothed with black liairs, which are thick at 

 the tip, it is almost twice the length of the usual width of 

 the segment. Legs deep black, with black b?istles; the cox jb 

 and the fore femora below Avith briglit, soft, yellow, long hairs; 

 the other femora with only short yellow ])ubescence on their 

 upper and lower boi'ders and with short black bristles and 

 longer ones below whi.ch are sometimes yellow on the hind 

 pair ; th.e fore tibiae also with long yellow hairs not so 

 numerous, and with black and some yellow bristles, th.e 

 black bristles on the outer side are very long, two or more 

 in number; the middle tibiaj have not these, but yellow and 

 l)Iack bristles of ordinary size and with some short yellow 

 ])ubescence on their outer borders, the hind pair with black 

 pube>cence and bristles, and reddish or yellowish fringes of 

 sh(>rt hairs below on each apical border; the tarsi with black 

 liairs and bristles, the first joint of hind pair ^ith reddish 

 or yelh;wish fringes in some of the specimens. If'inr/s clear, 

 grey at aj)ex and on posterior border, leaving only the base 

 and centie of Aving clear ; the small transverse vein this side 

 of the middle of discal cell. 



Female. — The yellow hairs on moustache are much less 

 numerous, the yellow beard in both sexes is very thick and 



