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greyish yellow pubescence which is intermixed with long somewhat 

 conspicuous black hairs about the upper half of the mesopleurae and 

 there is a distinct yellowish brown tuft on its posterior margin ; on 

 the prothorax and metapleurae there is conspicuous though less than 

 that on the mesopleurae long greyish yellow tuft. 



Wings somewhat greyish, with a distinct yellowish brown tinge 

 at the base and the forernargin above the ' subcostal vein, and also the 

 sides of the stem of the postical vein tinged with yellowish brown ; 

 stigma composed of only the dark thickened end of the subcostal vein, 

 below the stigma moderately yellowish brown to the radial vein but 

 the base of the marginal cell quite clear; mediastinal vein, basal half of the 

 radial vein, and stem of the postical vein rather brownish yellow ; upper 

 branch of the cubital fork sometimes with a short recurrent veinlet ; first 

 posterior cell widely open, but sometimes slightly contracted at the 

 margin ; anal cell closed long before the margin ; discal cell moderate 

 in size, usually conspicuously longer than the second posterior cell. 

 Squamae in the alar pair glassy grey with blackish margin and short 

 sloping greyish yellow fringe, in the thoracal pair glassy yellow with 

 brownish yellow margin and fine erect rather inconspicuous pale yellow- 

 ish fringe, at the lower angle of the alar pair there is conspicuous dull 

 yellow tuft. Halteres dark brown, with the apex yellowish. 



Legs black, but the extreme tip of the femora and almost all the 

 tibiae brownish red or brownish yellow; front coxae greyish black with the 

 extreme tip blackish, clothed with long pale yellowish white silky hairs 

 which become short and rather sparse at the apical part where the short 

 black pubescence occurs ; front femora slightly dusted with greyish, 

 with an abundant short black pubuscence which becomes longer at the 

 outside, and with the rather sparse ciliation of tiny black bristles at the 

 inner margin of the bare subfemoral space which is rather distinct, 

 broad and slightly hollowed throughout the whole length ; front tibiae 

 growing blackish about the apical half, clothed with tiny black anJ 

 pale yellow bristles in which the yellow ones almost all occur on the 



