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rior; vein VI strongly curved outward at apex; forks clotlied with Long, 

 slender hair-like scales as on veins III and V apically; stems of forked 

 veins with no diverging scales; all fringe scales light seal-hrown. 



Legs black; femora pale ochraceous at bases, black at apices; mid and 

 posterior femora white beneath; tibite and tarsi of all legs black, or dark 

 seal-bro'«7r according to reflections. Ungues of fore legs unequal, the 

 longer twice the length of the shorter and with a single tooth. Mid 

 ungues unequal, the longer simple ; posterior ungues equal, small and 

 simple. 



§ , length J:. 5 millimeters, length of wing 3.25 millimeters, length of 

 proboscis 3.5 millimeters, seal-brown, blue-black in certain lights; thorax 

 blue-gre}''. 



Legs dark brown or black according to angle of reflection. All mark- 

 ings exactly as in S , except that the tip of the proboscis is brown. 

 The abdomen is wddest at the 5th segment and tapers to posterior end 

 while in the $ the sides are parallel. Palpi similar to those of the i . 

 Antennae sparsely clad with long hairs and rather thickly with very shoi't 

 ones. The posterior cross vein is removed by its own length from mid 

 cross vein. 



Benguet, Trinidad, P. I. (Banhs. collector). 



Collected as larv^a in pitchers of Ncpentlics alata Bl., 30 December 

 1907. 



T3'pe of $ and 2 No. 8159 in Entomological Collection, Bureau of 

 Science, Manila, P. I. 



