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border usually pale brownish yellow ; prothorax and pteropleurae 

 covered with a greyish yellow or yellow tomentum and with numerous 

 long somewhat shaggy pale brownish yellow or reddish yellow hairs ; 

 the postero-upper margin of the meso- and meta-pleurae bearing the 

 long dense brownish yellow tuft. Scutellum covered with a yellowish 

 brown tomentum, not shining, and clothed with numerous rather dense 

 black pubescence which is intermixed with some scattered short rather 

 depressed brownish yellow (with dense golden rustre) hairs, and on 

 the margin there are numerous dense not long brownish yellow tuft 

 which has some golden shimmer in a light. 



Wings shorter than the thorax and abdomen together, slightly 

 infuscated but rather distinctly tinged with yellowish along all the veins 

 and at the extreme base, and more or less clear about the middle of 

 the cells excepting of the costal and subcostal cells conspicuously 

 yellowish, with the veins almost all brown ; posterior cells all widely 

 open but sometimes the first one slightly contracted towards the 

 margin, anal cell closed with a long petiole, and the discal cell lar^e 

 and about twice as long as the second posterior cell ; upper branch of 

 the cubital fork without the recurrent veinlet. Squamae in the alar 

 pair grey with a dark brown narrow margin and with a short but 

 dense yellowish brown fringe except lor the long dense conspicuous 

 rather golden yellow tuft about the angle ; in the thoracal pair pale 

 yellowish brown with a rather broad brownish yellow margin and with 

 a rather sparse ciliation of very fine brownish hairs which are shorter 

 and more inconspicuous than those in the alar pair. Halteres com- 

 paratively small, brown or dark brown with the knob blackish but its 

 top more or less yellowish grey. 



Legs castaneous black, with the apex of the femora and with 

 tibiae yellowish, and with the tarsi brownish ; front coxae moderately 

 dilated and about three-fourth of the front femora, covered with 

 a greyish yellow tomentum and with numerous long pale brownish 

 yellow hairs which have a golden shimmer in a light and which on 



