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pair hardly reach to the hind margin, while the lateral pair are quite 

 interrupted by the praealar calli after which they becomes suddenly 

 narrow and more inconspicuous ; humeri pale somewhat brownish, 

 densely clothed with a grey tomentum and bearing numerous long 

 pale brownish yellow hairs ; praealar calli reddish black, obscured by 

 a grey tomentum, the upper half bearing rather scattered short but 

 stout black hairs directed variously and intermixed with more short 

 yellow hairs, and the lower half furnished with numerous long erect 

 conspicuous black hairs forming a distinct lateral fringe which does not 

 extend forwards from the calli, but on the space between the humeri 

 and then there are numerous long dense erect pale brownish yellow 

 hairs ; postalar calli reddish yellow, obscured by a greyish tomentum 

 and covered with short black and yellowish hairs, and on the postero- 

 outer margin there is a dense somewhat long pale yellowish grey tuft, 

 the similar but shorter tuft on about the pale reddish brown wing- 

 base ; pleurae paler than the thorax, covered with a greyish yellow 

 tomentum and numerous moderately long pale brownish yellow soft 

 pubescence which on the posterior part of the mesopleurae is inter- 

 mixed with some short but stout .black hairs, prothorax and pteropleurae 

 covered with very long pale brownish yellow hairs, and on the postero- 

 upper margins of the meso- and meta-pleurae are long pale brownish 

 yellow tufts. Scutellum similar to the thorax, but on the margin there 

 is a rather short but somewhat dense pale brownish yellow fringe. 



Wings very slightly shorter than the thorax and abdomen to- 

 gether, slightly tinged with brownish yellow, with the veins brownish 

 and with the stigma dull yellow ; costal cell yellow^ all posterior cells 

 widely open but the first one very slightly contracting towards the 

 margin, discal cell moderate in size and apparently longer than the 

 first posterior cell, and the anal cell closed with a long petiole. Squamae 

 in the alar pair dark grey with a yellowish brown margin and a pale 

 brownish yellow ciliation except the long pale fringe about the angle, 

 in the thoracal pair yellowish brown with a reddish brown margin and 



