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pubescence which is intermixed with abundant similar but black hairs 

 on the posterior-upper half of the mesopleurae ; prothorax clothed with 

 not very much dense long yellowish grey hairs ; on the postero-upper 

 margin of the meso- and meta-pleurae and on the upper margin of 

 ' the pteropleurae there is a very long shaggy conspicuous golden 

 yellow or deep yellow iuft. 



Wings with a brownish yellow tinge, especial!} 7 towards the 

 costa ; veins brown but sometimes yellowish in part especially on the 

 mediastinal, radial, and postical veins, stigma yellowish ; all the post- 

 erior cells widely open but the first one slightly narrowed at the 

 margin ; anal cell closed with a moderately long petiole ; discal cell 

 large, apparently longer than the second posterior cell ; upper branch 

 of the cubital fork with a distinct recurrent veinlet rather near the 

 base. Squamae in alar pair grey with a blackish brown margin which 

 bears a conspicuous yellowish brown ciliation excepting of the long 

 pale yellowish white tuft about the angle ; in the thoracal pair pale 

 yellowish brown with a dark margin and with a brown ciliation of 

 rather dense shorter hairs. Halteres dark brown, with the knob 

 almost always yellowish white at the tip. 



Legs blackish brown but dull yellowish brown on the extreme 

 tips of the femora and on all the tibiae except on about the apical half 

 of the front tibiae blackish ; front coxae moderately dilated and about 

 ihree-fourth as long as the front femora, clothed with a dense grey 

 tomentum and with numerous moderately long yellow hairs which is 

 intermixed with a few shorter black pubescence near the tip ; front 

 femora covered with a greyish tomentum leaving a rather broad shining 

 dark castaneous subfemoral bare space which is slightly hollowed out 

 and is transversely striolate, on the inside of this space there is a not 

 very dense though comparatively long conspicuous black ciliation, the 

 pubescence on the inside short depressed and black but on the outside 

 long and yellowish brown or yellow forming a rather dense conspicu- 

 ous outer fringe ; two posterior pairs of the femora slightly covered 



