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quite bare from pubescence and with practically equal small facets, in 

 death greenish black with three narrow inconspicuous purplish black 

 bands of which the middle one extends from just above the frontal 

 eye-angle to before the outer angle and is nearly straight, and the lower 

 one is nearly parallel to the middle one but at the outer end curved 

 upwards, while the upper one is most inconspicuous and is rather 

 narrowly separated from the middle ; eyes (when seen from in front) 

 as wide as deep, with the frontale angle' about I2O, with the upper 

 angle about 90, the frontal margin straight, the facial margin ap- 

 parently shorter than the frontal margin and slightly curved outwards, 

 and with the outer margin strongly convex ; in profile distinctly shorter 

 than deep, with the narrow top-angle and the broad frontal angle 

 rounded, and with the straight frontal margin. 



Thorax rather small, somewhat roundish, greyish reddish brown, 

 nearly unicolorous but at the apical part slightly paler, covered with 

 short depressed yellow pubescence intermixed with some short erect 

 blackish hairs which are most conspicuous and longer on the praealar 

 calli; pleurae obscured by ashy grey tomentum, and bearing long but 

 inconspicuous thin pale yellowish hairs which become more conspicuous 

 on the meso-, ptero-, and rneta- pleurae ; scutellum the" same as the 

 thorax but its pubescence more conspicuous and longer. 



Wings smoky especially on the fore border and along the 

 veins, with brown veins of which the cubital and postical veins are 

 conspicuously yellowish; all the postical cells widely open; anal cell 

 closed before the margin with a rather short petiole ; discal cell mode- 

 rate in size, and longer than the second posterior cell ; upper branch 

 of the cubital fork without veinlet. Squamae in the alar pair quite 

 smoky and with a blackish margin ; in the thoracal pale brown and 

 with a dark brown margin ; fringes very short, rather inconspicuous, 

 brownish, but angle-tuft long conspicuous and pale yellowish. 



Legs yellowish brown, with the tarsi darkened ; frontal coxae 

 obscured by a whitish tomentum and covered with numerous whitish 



