DIPTEROUS FAMILY PANTOPHTHALMIDyE. 



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breadth, except that outer stripes are usually somewhat broader 

 in front), extending from front to hind margin, hut confluent 

 posteriorly after passing transverse suture, outer stripes black or 

 blackish-brown, medinn stripe paler, dark mummy-bi'own, some- 

 times less noticeable than outer stripes ; behind transverse suture 

 a short blackish-brown or dark brown longitudinal stripe on each 

 side, extending from suture to postalar callus, and on inner side 

 of this stripe a .somewhat oblique, shining, chestnut-brown stripe ; 

 doi'sum, excej^t main portion of upper surface of scutellum, which 

 is bare, thickly clothed with fine, silky, glistening, reddish-brown, 

 ochraceous-tawn}'^ or tawny-olive hair, which on lateral borders is 

 longer than elsewhere ; scutellum mummy-brown, dark senl-brown, 

 or russet-brown, more or less distinctly shimmering silvery-white 



Text-figure 4. 



PantopJdhalmus versicolor Austen, <J . X If . 



or shimmering smoke-grey pollinose above, excei»t on hind border; 

 pleuree and pectus chocolate-brown or warm sepia-coloured, 

 clothed with tine and fairly long, dark brown or reddish-brown 

 hair. Abdomen: second and two following tergites each with 

 a reddish-brown transverse band, just in front of hind margin 

 and widely separated from latei'al extremities in each case, pos- 

 terior half of fifth tergite with an ill-defined blotch of similar 

 colour in centre, not leaching hind margin ; first tergite thinly 

 clothed with fine hair, Avhich is ochreous and recumbent except 

 on basal angles where it is brownish and erect ; second and three 

 following tergites sparsely clothed with minute, appressed, glis- 

 tening, ochraceous-tawny hairs, which in the case of second and 



