hyaline. Squamae greyish brown with dark brown margin and bearing 

 a very inconspicuous brownish fringe ; halteres light fresh yellow with 

 dark brown knob, which has a pale top. 



Legs coloured as in ffeant. tristis. Pubescence numerous and 

 long front coxae with very long shaggy greyish white hairs which 

 become shorter outwards and is sparsely intermixed with a very few 

 sloping short blackish hairs; front femora with a long erect blackish 

 pubescence on the outer and upper sides, which becomes greyish white 

 towards the base, and with a much shorter 1 paler one on the lower side; 

 front tibiae with a moderately depressed short blackish pubescence 

 which becomes longer on the outside, and about the pale ring there 

 is a pale yellowish one; middle femora with a long pale greyish yel- 

 low pubescence at the outside and with a short sloping similar coloured 

 one at the remaining sides, and about the apex (especially below) there 

 is a few short but rather stout blackish hairs ; middle tibiae covered 

 with long sloping black and greyish yellow hairs of which the blackish 

 one is a little stouter and grows on the blackish parts, and the yellow- 

 ish one is rather fewer than the former and appears only " on the pale 

 reddish yellow rings, these hairs all becoming shorter on the interior 

 and lower sides, the blackish brown spurs being unequal ; hind femora 

 furnished with much longer rather erect greyish yellow hairs on the 

 outer and lower sides, and with a depressed' short similar coloured 

 (though much more yellowish) pubescence on the rest , hind tibiae with 

 a rather dense and depressed blackish pubescence which becomes 

 shoter and yellow on the outsides, on the Other 'sides there is a very 

 few yellow pubescence about the yellow rings ; tarsi in front legs bear- 

 ing father numerous touch-hairs ; pulvilli greyish yellow, and claws fine 

 and brownished black. 



Abdomen dull black, much more longer than the head and 

 thorax (including the scutellum) together, gradually ilarrdwed posterior- 

 ly and the discal end slightly pointed. Dorsiim on each Segment with 

 a narrow greyish orange yellow hind marginal band which extends up 



