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calli. Scutellum moderate in size, somewhat triangular with the rounded 

 angle, brownish but usually greyish rounded the posterior margin, co- 

 vered with abundant golden yellow or yellowish pubescence which is 

 intermixed with longer sloping black hairs. Pleurae densely clothed 

 with greyish yellow tomentum, and covered with long soft yellow or 

 orange yellow pubescence which becomes dense and longer on the 

 upper part ; on the posterior-upper margins of the meso- and meta- 

 pleurae there are long shaggy yellow or reddish yellow tufts ; the 

 triangular membrane between the prothorax and mesopleurae distinctly 

 deeper coloured, and with a rather large stigma which has the reddish 

 brown or brown margin. 



Wings large, longer than the thorax and abdomen together, 

 brown, becoming paler on the posterior border and at the apex, which 

 sometimes is rather broadly quite clear or sometimes only second sub- 

 marginal cell ; the base and apex of the marginal cell usually hyaline but 

 the apex sometimes brown ; stigma dark brown, veins blackish brown, 

 and the hyaline spot on the discal vein more or less distinct ; posterior 

 cells all widely open, anal cell closed a little before the margin, and 

 discal cell moderately large and slightly or apparently longer than the 

 second posterior cell ; the upper branch of the cubital fork without the 

 recurrent veinlet. Squamae in the alar pair glassy grey with a blackish 

 margin and short yellowish brown fringe except for the considerably 

 long whitish tuft about the angle ; in the thoracal pair brownish with 

 a brown margin and a inconspicuous brownish fringe. Halteres dark 

 brown, with the apex paler or sometimes with the stalk paler. 



Legs dull black with the coxae obscured by greyish yellow to- 

 mentum ; front coxae moderately dilated, longer than two-third the 

 length of the front femora, darkened apically and inwardly, covered with 

 abundant long black pubescence but on the outer basal half there are 

 more dense much longer yellow or whitish yellow hairs ; front femora 

 covered with numerous black pubescence except on the broad shining 

 blackish subfemoral bare space which is slightly hollowed out about the 



