DIPTEROUS FAMILY PANTOniTUALMIDiE, 



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clothed with fine similarly coloured hair, dorsum, and lateral 

 extremities of pronotum, clothed wtili ochraceous-bufF hair. 

 Abdomen: first tergite with each lateral extremity broadly black, 

 though just in fi'ont of hind margin of segment black area shows 

 a deep indentation of ground-colour above and below ; second 

 and tliird tei'gites with a scutiform or elongate black spot 

 occupying each anterior angle, extreme hind margins of posterior 

 angles of second tergite also black; fourth tergite with anterior 

 two-thirds of lateral exti'emities sooty black ; lateral extremities 

 of fifth tergite blackish-brown ; sixth tei'gite entirely ochraceous- 

 orange ; a straight transverse band running right across fore 

 border of fifth tei-gite devoid of silvery sheen ; on each of the 

 three preceding tergites corresponding non-silvered band tapers 

 towards lateral extremities of the tergite, which it fails to reach, 



Text-fiirure 2. 



Fantophthahnus batesi Austen, <?. X IJ. 



while its hind margin, which exhibits a backwardly directed 

 projection in middle line, is more or less brace-shaped ; lateral 

 extremities of tergites clothed on dark areas M'ith dark brown or 

 blackish-brown hair, and elsewhere clothed with yellowish, 

 cinnamon-coloured, or brownish hair, remainder of dorsum clothed 

 with minute, scattered, and veiy inconspicuous cinnamon-bufl 

 hairs, which on sixth tergite are somewhat longer ; venter 

 orange-buff, partially suffused with a silvery sheen (especially 

 distinct on first three sternites), and sparsely clothed with hair 

 similar in colour to that on dorsum, but longer. Wings light 

 sepia-coloured, marked as shown in fig. 2, the most conspicuous 

 markings being tliose on the costal border, consisting of two 

 irregularly shaped dark blotches and two cream-buff or pinkish- 

 buff marks ; of the latter, the one nearer the base of the wing, 



