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directed ; praealar calli covered with abundant short though stout black 

 hairs which are irregularily curved and are intermixed with some short 

 yellow hairs about the upper half, and about the lower margin there 

 are dense long erect conspicuous black bristly hairs which extend to 

 the triangular space between the humeri and this calli ; postalar calli 

 usually reddish brown, obscured by a greyish tomentum and covered 

 with short black pubescence, and on the outer margin there is a long 

 conspicuous pale yellowish grey tuft, the similar but shorter tuft about 

 the upper base of the wing, where the surface is very often dull 

 reddish yellow or greyish yellow. Scutellum triangular with the 

 posterior angle roundish, blackish, obscured by greyish or pale yel- 

 lowish grey tomentum, and clothed with abundant short black pubes- 

 cence which is intermixed with some short inconspicuous yellowish 

 hairs around the margin. Pleurae covered with yellowish grey or pale 

 yellowish grey tomentum and with abundant long light yellowish or 

 white yellow pubescence which becomes denser and slightly longer 

 above and is intermixed with sparse or dense black hairs on the 

 mesopleurae especially about the posterior half, and on the prothorax 

 there are much longer denser yellowish hairs, and on the upper 

 posterior margins of the meso- and ptero-pleurae and on the upper 

 margin of the metapleurae, there are dense yellowish grey tufts. 



Wings with a brownish yellow tinge, especially towards the 

 costa, and with the veins brown but slightly yellowish towards the 

 base ; posterior cells all widely open but first one more or less 

 narrowed at the margin, discal cell very large and apparently longer 

 than the second posterior cell, and anal cell narrow and closed with 

 a rather long petiole ; upper branch of the cubital fork with a some- 

 what long recurrent veinlet, and the stigma yellowish brown. Squamae 

 in the alar pair grey with a dark brown margin and with a comparative- 

 ly long and dense greyish yellow fringe excepting of a long whitish 

 yellow tuft about the angle ; in the thoracal pair paly yellowish brown 

 with a brownish margin and with shorter inconspicuous pale fringe. 



