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(near the base) being less strongly defined and usually bearing some 

 tiny black bristles ; style-like portion of the third joint about half as 

 long as the basal annulation, and with the short conical black apical 

 articulation. Eyes not quite bare but practically so, as there are only 

 some very short sparse hairs, deep purplish black" or bronzy black in 

 death ; facets on the larger upper half slightly but distinctly larger 

 than those on the small lower half, and the large facets extend upwards 

 just before the ocellar knob and downwards beyond the junction of 

 the eyes, while the small facets extend in a rather broad zone all 

 round the hind-margin up to the vertex, dividing line being not well- 

 defined. 



Thorax moderately shining though it is clothed with a yellowish 

 brown tomentum, and bearing abundant long erect black hairs with no 

 pale ones, but on the humeri, just above the wing-bases and on the 

 prae-and post-alar calli there are some greyish yellow hairs intermixed 

 especially on the latter very conspicuous ; scutellum rather small, 

 somewhat triangular, shining, moderately with a yellowish brown to- 

 mentum and clothed with abundant long erect black hairs which become 

 much longer along the margin. Pleurae darker than in the female, 

 clothed with numerous rather dense long yellowish grey pubescence 

 which becomes browner about the upper and posterior margins of the 

 mesopleurae, and becomes most yellowish at the postero-upper margin 

 of the metapleure ; there are long blackish hairs on the mesopleurae, 

 the blackish hairs abundant and conspicuous about the hind-margin. 



Wings, squamae, and halteres as in the female. 



Legs with longer pubescence than in the female, especially on 

 the tibiae ; the hairs on the hind tibiae forming the fringes on both 

 the dorsal and ventral mzrgins, and on the front femora there is a 

 distinct long blackish fringe at the outer-lower margin. 



Abdomen rather small but longer than the head and thorax 

 (including the scutellum) together, rather narrow and with the pointed 

 apex ; dorsum very slightly shining, brownish black, with rather distinct 



