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contact with or narrowly separated from eyeSj median frontal 

 spot very small ; frontal callus mummy-brown to clove-brown, 

 relatively deep, extending from eye to eye, lower margin 

 straight, upper margin usually sliglitly convex ; no distinct 

 spot below callus, between bases of antennae; palpi buff or 

 cream-buff, terminal joint elongate, clothed on outer side 

 with minute black hairs and on under side of basal portion 

 with yellowish hair ; first joint ofa/itennce shining ochraceous, 

 incrassate when viewed from above, clothed like secoud joint 

 with short black hair, upper angle of second joint greatly 

 produced, basal portion of third joint elongate-ovate, last 

 three annuli of same colour as basal portion, terminal annulus 

 brownish only at extreme tip. Thorax : usual three stripes 

 on dorsum smoke-grey, median stripe entire, admedian stripes 

 sometimes more or less interrupted behind expansions on 

 posterior margin of transverse suture; humeral calli drab- 

 grey, adjacent area smoke-grey ; pectus and pleurae smoke- 

 grey, clotiied with whitish hair ; dorsum (including scutellum) 

 sparsely clothed with minute shining yellowish hairs ; scutel- 

 lum with a narrow mouse-grey transverse band close to base. 

 Abdomen : dorsum of each segment, except sometimes first 

 or first and last, with a pair of conspicuous admedian smoke- 

 grey or drab-grey spots, except on first and second segments 

 applied to front margins of segments, forming a double series 

 extending throughout entire length of abdomen ; hind 

 margins of segments and a more or less conspicuous median 

 longitudinal stripe on each segment except first and last 

 yellowish grey ; venter greyish buff", clothed with minute 

 yellowish hairs. Mings : infuscation pale brown, uniform, 

 rosettes and other light markings distinct, though markings 

 forming rosettes larj^ely broken iip into spots ; stigma well- 

 marked, pale brown to dark brown, with light marking at 

 each extremity small but well defined, that at distal extre- 

 mity of stigma roughly circular or oval, with dark centre ; 

 apical sinuous marking, from tip of second longitudinal to 

 lower branch of third vein widely interrupted in second sub- 

 marginal cell ; usual oblique marks across posterior cells 

 sometimes more or less broken up into spots ; light marks 

 along hind margin, in distal angles of first, second, third, and 

 fifth posterior cells, and axillary cell small ; discal cell with 

 two light marks across its central portion, and sometimes a 

 minute light fleck in its proximal angle ; light markings in 

 basal, anal, and axillary cells of normal type but not exten- 

 sive, those at distal extreujity of each basal cell sometimes 

 merely consisting of a transverse mark at commencement of 

 distal third. Halteres cream-coloured, knob brownish at 



