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with a distinct median division; palpi rather long and thin^ 

 clothed with brown scales and some violet ones and a few 

 white ones at the apex ; the pale testaceous ground-colour shows 

 through here and there; clypeus shiny, deep brown, traces of a 

 lateral process on each side, antennae brown, testaceous at the base, 

 hairs dark, proboscis deep brown, curved, not as long as the body. 



Thorax black and shiny in the middle, yellow at the sides, the 

 junction of the two colours being abrupt, the median dark area 

 has narrow-curved bronzy scales, the yellow areas have shiny narrow- 

 curved golden scales, in front projecting over the head are tufts of 

 black, blunt, thick, curved bristles of various lengths, over the roots 

 of the wings and in front of them long golden chsetse darkening 

 at their apices ; there are also a few pale creamy scales forming a 

 more or less pronounced spot in front of the bare space in front 

 of the scutellum, and an obscure line of the same on each side of it; 

 scutellum blackish with narrow-curved bronzy scales and deep . 

 brown border-bristles ; metanotum blackish brown, nude ; pleurse 

 pale ochreous. 



Abdomen unhanded, clothed with small flat scales showing 

 brown and violet colours, with pale golden border-bristles giving a 

 general false appearance of basal pale bands when examined with 

 a lens ; laterally the abdomen shows testaceous hues, and there are 

 pale-scaled lateral marks running right down the segments. 



lyCgs with pallid coxae, also base and venter of femora ; rest 

 dark brown ; hind femora yellow at the apex , with five prominent 

 chaetae along one side and smaller ones on the apex, etc. ; a 

 narrow pale band at the junction of the metatarsal and first tarsal 

 segments, also first and second tarsals on the fore and mid legs, 

 other segments dark brown ; on the hind legs the banding is more 

 pronounced and extends to all the joints, the last segment being 

 almost white below ; ungues all equal and simple. 



Wings with short fork-cells, about the same length, but the 

 submarginal narrower than the second posterior cell, its base a 

 little nearer the apex of the wing, its stem about one-and-a-third 

 times its length, stem of the second posterior cell a little longer 

 than the cell ; marginal cell swollen on the middle, narrowed api- 

 cally and again expanded at the wing-apex ; posterior cross-vein 

 slightly longer than the mid, not quite its own length distant from 

 it ; outer costal border spinose ; median vein-scales single, small 

 and vSpatulate ; scales dense on subcostal and first long vein ; lateral 

 vein-scales on the apical areas of the second, third and fourth veins 

 broad and flat. 



Length 3*5 to 4 mm. 



rf . Head, thorax, abdomen and legs as in the female. An- 

 tennae with dense flaxen plume-hairs, almost golden at their base, 

 flagellum banded; apical segments long, deep brown; proboscis 

 bright ochreous, purple-brown at the apex, which is hairy; palpi 

 longer than the proboscis, straight, of two segments, the apical 

 one short and swollen, ochreous with ochreous scales and some 

 violet ones, especiaUy above and at the apices of the two 



