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margin and a short yellowish grey fringe, and in the thoracal pair pale 

 greyish yellow with a yellow margin and a conspicuous tuft of long 

 orange yellow hairs about the angle. Halteres pale orange with the 

 dark orange or reddish yellow knob. 



Legs reddish orange, with the blackish coxae except for the 

 extreme apex or sometimes more and about the apical half for the front 

 tibiae, but brownish on the trochanters, on the apex of the middle and 

 hind tibiae, on the middle tarsi and on the hind tarsi which are usually 

 paler at the bases, while the front tarsi deep brownish black, and with 

 an irregular brownish black spot on near the lower base of the middle 

 and hind femora, this being sometimes quite obscured by a greyish 

 yellow dust, all the coxae dusted with grey. Pubescence on the front 

 coxae numerous but not dense, sloping, yellowish white, becoming 

 considerably longer about the base ; on the front femora somewhat 

 long and dense behind, yellowish grey about the base but growing 

 blackish about the tip (sometimes almost all black), and the bare sub- 

 femoral space narrow and inconspicuous with numerous tiny bristles on 

 its inner margin ; front tibiae covered almost all over with short depressed 

 black bristles, which are intermixed with similar but orange yellow 

 hairs about the basal half; pubescence on the middle femora orange 

 yellow, moderately long and dense, but becoming shorter towards the 

 upper surface, and with a few similar but black pubescence intermixed 

 on the upper apical half especially at the apical margin ; middle tibiae 

 with the small depressed black bristles scattered all over and with 

 rather dense still smaller glistening yellow ones intermixed about the 

 basal two-thirds, spurs rather large, unequal, orange yellow with the 

 pointed top blackish ; pubescence on the hind femora almost all orange 

 yellow, conspicuously longer towards the underside, and with only a 

 few black hairs about the tip and also with very few (usually three 

 or four) longer stouter black bristly hairs on the basal underside ; hind 

 tibiae mainly clothed with an abundant dense sloping short orange 

 yellow pubescence all over, and with numerous black bristles intermixed 



