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than the disc, covered with short black pubescence similar to that on 

 the disc, and bearing a tuft of numerous long yellowish hairs about 

 the apical half of the outer margin, the similar tuft (though shorter) 

 just above the base of the wing. Scutellum more densely covered 

 with greyish or yellowish grey tomentum, clothed with black pubescence 

 intermixed with a few short inconspicuous yellow or golden yellow 

 hairs which become conspicuously dense and rather longer around the 

 margin and extend up to about the posterior half of the outer margin 

 of postalar calli. Pleurae densely clothed with greyish or pale yellow- 

 ish grey tomentum, and covered with numerous rather short yellowish 

 grey tomentum, and covered with numerous rather short yellowish 

 white pubescence which becomes longer on the mesopleurae where 

 there are some shorter black hairs intermixed about the posterior 

 thirds ; prothorax clothed with abundant longer tuft yellowish white 

 pubescence ; tufts at the postero-upper margins of the meso- and 

 meta-pleurae, and at the tipper margin of the pteropleurae very long, 

 shaggy, yellowish white. 



Wings yellowish brown or pale brown, but usually paler about 

 the middle of almost all the cells, with the veins brown, and with the 

 stigma yellowish ; costal cell conspicuously yellowish, the marginal cell 

 with a long nearly quite clear spot all over the base ; posterior cells 

 widely open, but the first one often a little narrowed at the border, 

 anal cell closed with a long petiole, and the discal cell large and much 

 longer than the second posterior cell; the upper branch of the cubital 

 fork with a distinct recurrent veinlet. Squamae in the alar pair grey 

 or greyish brown with a brown margin and with a dense short cons- 

 picuous yellowish brown fringe excepting of the long yellow tuft about 

 th^ angle, in the thoracal pair yellowish brown or dull yellowish orange 

 with a brown or browish yellow or rarely dull orange margin and with a 

 brownish or yellowish or dull orange fringe. Halteres dull brown or black- 

 ish brown with the top of the knob greyish yellow or greyish white, or 

 rarely with the stalk yellowish brown or reddish brown. 



