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abundant ; second joint distinctly narrower and darker than the basal 

 joint, darker towards the apex, furnished with the similar but much 

 dense black pubescence, usually without any inconspicuous annulations ; 

 third joint much more upturned at the tip, dull black except the basal 

 part reddish yellow, at the apex with a few somewhat conspicuous 

 black pubescence. Eyes quite bare from pubescence, touching for less 

 than the middle third of the disiance between the occiput and antennae ; 

 facets on the larger upper part dilated and yellowish brown or yellow 

 in death, but on the smaller lower part small and purplish black with 

 somewhat coppery reflections according to varying lights ; the dividing 

 line being somewhat sharply defined and running across semicircularly 

 so that the small facets extend a long way up the back part ; the 

 large blackish purple middle spot near the upper margin of the smaller 

 blackish lower part of the eye triangular with a flat upper margin, 

 and between it and the foremargin but slightly higher up a smaller 

 second subquadrate spot, below the second spot the usual lower spot 

 which is moderately large and transverse subquadrate, the hind marginal 

 band not notched at any part and broadest about the hind lower angle 

 o. the eye ; in the larger yellowish upper part of the eye a narrow 

 transverse purplish brown line which extends from near the occipital 

 angle to the middle of the large middle spot, being parallel with the 

 upper margin, and an isolated similar coloured spot between it and 

 the facial margin somewhat long triangular with flat upper margin and 

 little smaller than the large triangular spot in the blackish part. 



Thorax blackish, moderately obscured by a dense brownish dust, 

 slightly shining, short and robust, in the part between the bases of 

 wings it is broadest and is gradually but distinctly narrowed towards 

 the anterior margin, much more shorter than in the female. Thorax 

 with two distinct median greyish yellow or yellow tomentose stripes 

 which are similarly separated by a not well-defined brownish black 

 line and expanding from the anterior margin to the posterior margin, 

 being nearly united from each other at both the ends ; the lateral 



