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fine strongly raised pattern, that on the scutellum and axillae so coarse as to appear 

 honeycombed. There is a small median presutnral smooth area. The incomplete, 

 backwardly converging parapsidal furrows fade away about the middle of the 

 mesonotum ; within them posteriorly the sculpture of the mid lobe is almost as 

 coarse as on the scutellum. The basal sutural abscissa of the scutellum is narrow— 

 a little more than half that of either axilla. There is practically no post-scutellum, 

 the metanotum consisting of two narrow inconspicuous sunken and slightly 

 roughened sclerites. 



Mesonotum with scattered hairs at the corners of the raised cells, two short bristles 

 at each side opposite the middle of the axillae, and one or two more on the smooth 

 area. After the suture no scattered hairs, but four or five bristles on each axilla, 

 three along the outer edge and one or two on the inner, and about eight on the 

 scutellum, two post-median and more central, and six (three, three) along the sides. 



Each half of the prosternum bears numerous short bristles ; the prepectus small, 

 wedge-shaped and fused (?) with pleurae. The surface of the mesosternum and 

 mesopleurae smooth, with striate pattern and only a few weak scattered hairs, except 

 on the anterior third of the pleurae, w^hich are covered w4th short appressed white 

 bristles. The propodeon takes the form of two smooth triangular sclerites, narrowly 

 united. There is some roughness below the oval, laterally-directed spiracles, and 

 about the mid line. The pleurae are covered with many moderately long bristles. 



Wings : fore wings, length : breadth, 5:2. Submarginal : marginal : radius : post- 

 marginal, 10 : 11 : 2 : 5. End of radius triangular, with four separated cells (fig. 4, 7). 

 Length, 1*8 mm. ; breadth, '68 mm. The submarginal bears up to its junction 

 with the marginal, seven to eight bristles, and parallel to this row are numerous 

 minute hairs on the submarginal cell. The apex of this cell carries below sixteen 

 to eighteen black recurved strong bristles of moderate length, crossing with 

 the bunch of short spines at and on the junction of the veins. These spines are 

 the heaviest units of the chaetotaxy. Similar short thick bristles occur on all the 

 infuscated areas of the wings, except towards the apex. The scattered black bristles 

 round the clear median band are heavier, but not structurally different from the 

 brown ones elsewhere. Within the area subtended by the submarginal the chaetotaxy 

 inclines parallel to the radius ; beneath the marginal the bristles are at right angles 

 to the radius ; elsewhere the pubescence is erect or sub-erect. Hind wings over 

 three times as long as broad. Submarginal : marginal, 5:8. Posterior cilia sparse ; 

 hairs of the disk short, longer near the apex. Marginal cell open to the hooks, with 

 numerous bristles over the entire length. Length, 1-3 mm. ; breadth, 4 mm. 



Legs : unless otherwise stated, any joint or aspect (i.e., posterior or anterior) 

 of a joint is covered with evenly spread, often close, subequal short bristles. 

 Fore legs with the coxae large, hardly deeper than wide, broadly attached to the 

 sternum ; apical collar narrow, anterior surface reticulate ; posterior surface bare, 

 except at outer apical angle, w^here a patch of bristles occurs, the more distal 

 stronger ; above the patch {i.e., basally) the surface is smooth, reticulate again 

 posteriorly. Trochanter long and narrow (two-thirds of the coxa), the upper 

 anterior two-thirds bare. Femur not swollen, medianly a Httle decurved, reticulation 

 moderate and drawn out ; numerous short bristles along the entire dorsal edge, and 

 narrowly on the anterior face (the latter bristles ceasing towards the base), the 



