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except a dark median stripe (a prolongation of the clove- 

 brown median stripe on the main portion of the thorax) 

 Avhich is clothed with black hairs. Abdomen', cream-butf 

 median dorsal stripe of aI)Out same width as admediau 

 cream-buff stripes on dorsum of thorax and therefore rela- 

 tiAxly rather broad (slightly narrower than elsewhere on 

 sixth segment and towards hind margin of fifth), clothed 

 with short, appressed, Naples-yellow hair, and terminating 

 abruptly on hind margin of sixth segment ; clove-brown, 

 admediaiij dorsal stripes of nearly same Avidth as median 

 stripe, pale on first segment and interrupted on base of 

 second, then becoming darker ; dorsum of sixth and seventh 

 segments, except lateral margins (and also median stripe in 

 case of former segment), clove-brown, dorsum of fifth seg- 

 ment also with an ill-defined clove-brown longitudinal mark 

 next lateral border, connected along hind margin with ad- 

 median stripe and anteriorly extending on to hind Ijorder of 

 fourth segment ; proximal dorsal angles of first segment 

 greyish pollinose; ochraceous-buff area of dorsum of abdo- 

 men clothed with short, appressed, ochre-yellow hairs, poste- 

 rior angles and extreme lateral margins of segments clothed 

 with paler hairs; on first four segments, between admedian 

 stripe and lateral border on each side, ;ire traces of a faint 

 and ill-defined dusky longitudinal stripe, connected with 

 corresponding mark on fifth segment already described, and 

 clothed, at least in part, with minute black hairs ; the ochra- 

 ceous-buff area between the admedian stripes and the ill- 

 defined dusky longitudinal stripes just mentioned is light 

 greyish pollinose (most noticeable when abdomen is viewed 

 at a low angle from behind); venter ochraceous-buft' and 

 clothed with short, appressed, pale yellowish hairs, terminal 

 segment slate-coloured and clothed, as usual, with coarse, 

 erect, black hairs, penultimate segment slate-grey and 

 clothed partly with black hairs, antepenultimate segment 

 greyish, IVhiys : costal cells raw-umber-coloured ; stigma 

 mummy-brown, elongate and conspicuous ; costa dark 

 brown, other veins lighter or darker mummy-brown. 

 Squama isabella-colourcd, borders cream-buff". Halteres : 

 stalks ochraceous-buff, knobs cream-coloured, buff at base. 

 Legs : coxaj light drab-grey or smoke-grey, clothed with 

 greyish-white hair ; femora and tibiae clothed for most part 

 with short, ai)presscd, glistening, ochrcous or pale yellowish 

 hair, posterior surface of niidillc femora clothed except at 

 base with longer yellowish-white hair ; inner surface of front 

 femora cinnamon-rufous, except at base, where it is dark 

 brown ; base of middle and hind femora and of outer surface 



