G 'My, E. E. Austen on new 



Male dusky yrey above {dorsum of thorax dark olive-grey, 

 dorsum of ahdoinen slate-yrey), ? liyhter yrcy above {dorsum 

 of thorax light olive-yrey, ivith whitish -yrey longitudinal 

 stripes, dorsum of abdomen drab-grey or smoke-grey), extreme 

 lateral margins of abdominal segments in both sexes cream- 

 bvff or jnnldsh bvff. Head light gelloivish grey in J , cream- 

 coloured in ? , upper portion of front in ^ mouse-grey . 

 Third joint of antenna clovt-broivn or black, first and second 

 joints paler {mouse-grey or isabella-colonred in ^, buff in $ ). 

 Wings milky ; fork of third longitudinal vein, cross-veins at. 

 each end of discal cell, and sixth longitudinal vein before 

 middle faintly suffused ivith drab, — these markings sometimes 

 indistinct ; stigma light mummy-broivn, in ^ often paler than 

 in $ . Legs cream-buff or cream-coloured, femora in J more 

 or less grey. 



Head: vertex and darker portion of front in ,^ clothed 

 ■svith pale ye]lowi^h liair, face and jowls in c? clothed with 

 whitish liair; front in (^ witli a blackish, elongate spot in 

 centre below ocellar tubercle, extending from eye to eye ; 

 in ? face, jowls, and upper three-fourths of front clothed 

 with minute whitish hairs; palpi cream-buflP, often more or 

 less grey in ^, clothed with whitish hair; proboscis 

 ochraceous-buff, length of visil)le portion not exceeding 

 1 n)ra,, usually only about 0'6 orO'75 mm. ; first and second 

 joints of antennai very shorty clothed with sliort whiti>h 

 liair, third joint ochraeeous-buff at extreme base. Thorax: 

 pleurae and pectus grey in c? ; in $ pleurse cream-coloured, 

 disc of pectus light grey ; in both sexes pleurae and pectus 

 clothed with whitish hair; dorsum clotlied with minute, 

 appressed, yellowish hairs ; in $ these hairs are so small 

 that, on a suiierficial inspection, the dorsum appears bare ; 

 •whitish-grey longitudinal stripes on dorsum of $ fairly 

 broad, consisting of a pair of admediau stripes whicli 

 ])osteriorly are only narrowly separated or even apparently 

 fuse together, and a more or less distinct stiipe above base 

 of each wing; in some si)ecimens near front margin there 

 is also an indication of a narrow median stripe ; scutellum 

 dark grey in c? , in ? greyish butf or drab. Abdomen 

 clothed in both sexes with sliort whitish hair, which is 

 longer on sides, especially in (J ; dorsum with a dark, 

 median, longitudinal stripe, more conspicuous in J , ex- 

 tending from second segment almost to distal extremity, 

 more or less interinpted by hind margins of segments, aiul 

 formed by minute bhtck haiis among the whitis^h ones; 

 whiti^h hair on dorsum ot ? extremely small and closely 

 appressed ; in $ dorsal })latc of last scgmci.t. cither entirely 



