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Thich-set, medium-sized, dusky species ; dorsum of thorax 

 dark broivn, with grey longitudinal stripes ; abdomen smoke- 

 grey or drab-grey, with blackish markings on upper side; ivings 

 ivitk a brownish tinge, and extreme base, costal border, an 

 oblique transverse band tapering to a point and not reaching 

 hind margin, and an apical blotch, intensified round ends of 

 second longitudinal and upper branch of third longitudinal 

 veins, dark brown or blackish brown ; legs ochraceous, extreme 

 tips of all femora and ends of tarsi dark brown. 



Head yellowish pollinose, front of same colour or greyer ; 

 ocellar region usually dark brown, greyer in better-preserved 

 examples; frontal callus dull black, small, separated from 

 eye on each side by about one sixth of total width of front 

 at that point, transverse diameter of callus about two and a 

 quarter times its height, i;pper border slightly concave in 

 middle; a transverse furrow beneath antenna, below which 

 the central portion of the face is somewhat protuberant; on 

 each side of this protuberance a shining brown triangular 

 area descending to margin of buccal cavity ; a small blackish 

 triangular fleck on the jowls beneath each eye (not always 

 distinctly visible) ; front, sides efface, and under side of head 

 clothed Avith fine yellowish hair, longer beneath ; palpi of 

 moderate size, brownish or reddish brown, thinly clothed 

 with fine yellowish hair ; antenncB small, first joint slightly 

 swollen, not elongate, length of second joint about three 

 fourths of that of first ; first and second joints blackish 

 grey above, dull tawny below ; third joint blackish brown, 

 dull ferruginous at extreme base; first and second joints 

 clothed with blackish hair. Thorax : dorsum with three 

 dark brown and four much narrower grey longitudinal 

 stripes, also an extremely narrow, short, dark stripe above 

 base of wing, running from lower end of transverse suture 

 almost to postalar callus ; median dark brown stripe about 

 twice the width of the other two, rounded off about midway 

 between transverse suture and posterior margin, and thence 

 to hind margin in well-preserved specimens somewhat 

 less distinct ; paired dark brown stripes interrupted at 

 transverse suture^ and not extending so far forwards as 

 median stripe ; admedian grey stripes usually with a some- 

 what yellowish or In'ownish tinge posteriorly, lateral grey 

 stripes paler, lavender-grey behind transverse suture ; pleurae 

 mouse-grey, clothed with yellowish or pale golden hair, of 

 which there is a tuft below humeral callus, on hind margin 

 of mesopleura, and on metapleura. Scutellum greyish 

 brown at base, with broad dull ferruginous hind border. 

 Abdomen : first segment with a black median blotch beneath 



