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yellow and sloping,' not at all dense on the disc and in fact rather 

 scarce on the front part, denser and usually rather longer oh the lateral 

 parts, on the meso- and meta-pleurae, and on the upper parts of the 

 sterno- pleurae'. Scutellum orange yellow, short Ind broad, transverse, 

 moderately convex at the posterior margin, with straight lateral margins, 

 and bearing sparse yellow pubescence. 



Wings large, slightly longer than the length of the body, 

 brownish but .paler towards the inner margin, with veins, stigma and 

 costal cell quite brown. Upper branch of the cubital fork without a 

 recurrent veinlet ; first posterior cell widely open, gradually broadened 

 towards the wing- margin , anal cell closed before the wing-margin. 

 Squamae usual in size, dark orange yellow with yellowish fringe. Halteres 

 large, dull orange yellow, with round brownish knobs, gradually darker 

 towards the rips. 



Legs moderately shining, orange yellow, except the tibiae and 

 tarsi black and the apex of the femora brownish ; fore coxae about 

 two-thirds as long as the femora, and bearing yellowish pubescence ; 

 fore femora with rather abundant pubescence which is orange yellow 

 but on the apical parts brownish ; middle and hind femora with similar 

 pubescence but slightly shorter ; fore and middle tibiae furnished with 

 blackish pubescence, the latter bearing two subequal black spurs ; hind 

 tibiae densely covered with blackish pubescence and bearing two not 

 quite equal black spurs, which are smaller than those of the middle 

 tibiae. 



Abdomen about twice as long as the thorax, slightly broader 

 than that but gradually narrowed towards the apex. Dorsum pale 

 reddish yellow, but the two basal segments paler ; ventre yellow, but 

 scarcely darker towards the anal segment. Pubescence short, orange 

 yellow, but on the last five dorsal segments with blackish hairs 

 intermixed, and on the belly very short and rather dense. 



Length : 7.2 mm. 



I have only one female from Kanshirei in the prefecture Kagi. 



