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tered all over the upper half; the prothorax bearing longer and shaggy 

 whitish hairs, and on the posterior margins of both the nieso- and 

 meta-pleurae there are long dense shaggier conspicuous greyish tufts. 



Wings clear but more or less tinged with yellowish, which are 

 brown but with the basal part of the radial and postical veins and 

 with the stem of the cubital fork more or less yellowish ; the stigma 

 yellowish brown ; first posterior cell very narrowly open but sometimes 

 closed with or without a short petiole, the other posterior cells widely 

 open and never contracting at the wing-margin ; discal cell moderate in 

 size and very slightly longer than the second posterior cell, the anal 

 cell closed a long before the wing-margin ; upper branch of the cubital 

 fork without any recurrent veinlet. Squamae in the alar pair glassy 

 grey with a dark brown margin and a rather dense conspicuous brown 

 fringe except for a long pale yellowish tuft about the angle, in the 

 thoracal pair pale brownish with a brown margin and a rather sparse 

 yellowish brown fringe. Halteres reddish brown or brown with paler 

 apex of the knob. 



Legs blackish, with the basal half of the front tibiae and the 

 basal two-thirds of two pairs of the posterior tibiae dull yellowish, and 

 with the extreme apices of the femora inconspicuously yellowish brown ; 

 front coxae moderately dilated and less than the two-thirds of the 

 front femora, covered with grey tomentum and with numerous long 

 whitish pubescence which grows up shorter at the apical part ; front 

 femora on the outside very slightly covered with greyish tomentum 

 arid conspicuously clothed with numerous long whitish pubescence 

 which is intermixed with a very few scattered blackish hairs, the shin- 

 ing subfemoral bare space moderate in width, rather conspicuously 

 transversely striolate and hollowed out about the apical half or less, 

 and behind which is a short but quite conspicuous black ciliation 

 throughout the whole length of the femora ; two posterior pairs of the 

 femora covered with greyish tomentum and with numerous but not 

 dense pale yellowish white pubescence which is shorter than that in 



