DIPTEROUS FAMILY PANTOPHTHALMIDiE. 



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vinaceous-buff pollinose, with, as shown in text-fig. 9, on anterior 

 two-thirds a pair of fairly broad, black or blackish-brown longi- 

 tudinal stripes, and on each side, behind transverse sutvu-e, a pair 

 of similarly coloured spots, the larger of which occupies postalar 

 callus, while the other, much smaller spot is situate above base of 

 wing, just behind outer extremity of transverse suture ; a short 

 distance in rear of latter, each longitudinal stripe becomes partially 

 obliterated or is tapered off obliquely from in front outwards, 

 and is then continued to prescutellar groove by a narrower and 

 paler extension, each extension ending on anterior wall of groove 

 in a somewhat ill-defined, darker, spot-like termination, which 

 is in contact with its fellow ; scutellum black or blackish-brown, 

 its outer extremities silver-grey pollinose on a pale ochraceous- 



Text-figure 9. 



Pantophthalmus variei/alus Auiteu, ^ . Xl},. 



bufl' ground; dorsum of scutum clothed with ochraceous-buft' 

 hair, stripes, spots, and scutellum clothed with brownish or dark 

 brown hair ; humeral calli warm buff or cream- buff, outer 

 extremities and a spot on upper surface at base dark brown ; 

 pleurajand pectus mummy-brown, clothed with similarly coloured 

 hair. Abdomen: first four tergites, at least in typical series, 

 ochraceous-orange or orange-rufous, their latei-al extremities, 

 which are somewhat deflexed, black and sharply defined, with a 

 transversely elongate, silvery-white spot in posterior angle of 

 each tergite, spots on fourth tergite smaller than the other.s and 

 sometimes indistinct ; remaining tergites, including ovipositor, 

 mummy-brown, a larger or smaller area in centre of base of fifth 



