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minute black hairs ; sides o£ dorsum of second segment usually, and some- 

 times also those o£ dorsum of third segment, clothed with shining, appressed, 

 orange-ochraceous (golden-yellow) hair ; bands o£ similar hair on hind 

 borders o£ second and third segments deeper at sides ; orange-ochraceous 

 hair on dorsum o£ fi£th and sixth segments sometimes interspersed with 

 black hair, or mainly confined to hind borders and elsewhere largely replaced 

 by black hair ; dorsum o£ seventh segment clothed with black hair ; colora- 

 tion of venter similar to that o£ dorsum, ventral surface of second segment 



Fig. 3. — Dorcaloemus auricninuSy Austen, 5 • X 3. 



largely clothed with appressed, orange-ochraceous hair, which on third to 

 sixth segments inclusive is mainly confined to hind borders. Squamce cream- 

 buff. Halteres dark brown, stalks paler. 



Katanga, S.E. Congo Free State : Mid-Lualaba Valley, 3000 ft., 19.iv. 

 and 1.V.1907 {S. A. Neave). 



Dorcaloemus auricomus is closely allied to the following species, from 

 which, in the ? sex at any rate, it differs in the hairy covering of the distal 

 extremity of the abdomen being shining golden-yellow, and in the shining- 

 hair on the hind margins of the second, third, and fourth abdominal 

 segments being golden-yellow instead of silvery-white. 



