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quadrate with blunt rounded posterior angle, the lateral margins being 

 almost straight with acute post-lateral angles, black but entirely ob- 

 scured by an ashy grey tomentum, and covered with an abundant short 

 orange yellow pubescence and numerous long erect black hairs. 

 Pleurae blackish; covered with an ashy grey tomentum, bearing an 

 abundant long soft white pubescence which becomes much numerous 

 above, on the prothorax, and on the upper-hind parts of the meso- 

 and meta-pleurae there is a distinct shaggy tuft composed of long pale 

 yellowish hairs which have quite white tops. 



Wings clear though slightly brownish, about as long as the 

 thorax and abdomen together, with yellowish veins though their pos- 

 terior parts mostly brownish ; costal cell yellowish, and stigma 

 yellowish brown ; posterior cells all widely open, and discal cell 

 rather large, longer than the second posterior cell ; anal cell closed 

 before the wing-margin : upper branch of the cubital fork with a 

 very short or sometimes long recurrent veinlet. Squamae in the 

 alar pair brown with a dark margin and a short brownish fringe 

 excepting for the angle at where there is a long yellowish tuft ; in 

 the thoracal pair prominently large, yellowish brown, with a brownish 

 margin and an inconspicuous yellowish fringe. Halteres reddish brown 

 with yellowish stalk. 



Legs blackish with the basal two-thirds of the front tibiae and 

 the basal four-fifths of the middle and hind tibiae pale yellow ; front 

 coxae long and about two-thirds as long as the front femora, black 

 but obscured by a greyish dust, and covered with numerous long white 

 hairs ; front femora black (excepting of the extreme tip yellowish), 

 obscured by ashy grey or greyish lomentum leaving a rather broad 

 shining bare subfemoral space which is not hollowed out and indistinctly 

 striolate transversely, furnished with a numerous long white pubescence 

 intermixed with some similar but black hairs, on the inner margin of 

 the bare underside there is a numerous but not dense short black 

 fringe ; two pairs of the posterior femora blackish, with the tip yellow- 



