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clove-brown or blackish, elongate mark, usually clothed with black hair ; palpi 

 slate-grey (distal extremity of proximal joint and inner surface of terminal joint 

 greyish cream-buff or drab-grey), clothed with bright yellowish hair (and in case 

 of terminal joint also with some minute black hairs on outer side towards distal 

 extremity), terminal joint small and acuminate ; antennae greyish clove-brown 

 (last four annuli of terminal joint black), first joint clothed mainly with yellowish 

 hair, third joint narrow and elongate, usual angle on upper margin near base 

 often so little developed as to appear non-existent. Thorax ; swelling occupying 

 depression at each end of transverse suture usually greyish fawn-coloured ; 

 pleurae and pectus grey pollinose, clothed with yellowish hair. Abdomen : clove- 

 brown median basal blotches on first two segments shaped as shown in fig. 5 ; 

 first segment, hoary transverse band on second segment, posterior margins of 

 third and fourth segments, and lateral margins of tergites of second to fifth 

 segments inclusive clothed with yellowish or ochreous hair, hind margin of 

 tergite of fifth segment also with some yellowish or ochreous hairs ; hind 

 margins of third and fourth segments somewhat deeper on each side ; clove- 

 brown median blotch on second segment clothed with black mingled with 

 yellowish hair, tergites of third and following segments, except as already 

 stated, clothed with black hair ; venter agreeing with dorsum in coloration, 

 except that second segment is without the characteristic hoary transverse band 

 seen on dorsum, but has only a much less deep, straight, whitish-grey pollinose 

 hind border, and that hind margin of fifth segment is sometimes more distinctly 

 grey or yellowish-grey than is usually the case on dorsum ; hind margin of 

 ventral scute of sixth segment also sometimes narrowly grey. Wings : costal 

 cells tinged with raw sienna ; stigma* mummy-brown, elongate, and conspicuous ; 

 veins partly mummy-brown, partly dark brown. Squamae : thoracic squamae 

 cream-buff, borders buff. Halteres ochraceous-buff or buff, stalks somewhat 

 darker. Legs : coxae grey, clothed with yellowish hair ; femora blackish slate- 

 coloured, upper surfaces, and also anterior surface in case of middle pair 

 clothed with black hair, posterior surface of anterior pair clothed with longer 

 yellowish or longer black hair, or with both, under surface of middle and hind 

 pairs clothed with longer yellowish hair ; extreme base of tibiae, at least on 

 upper side, dark brown, distal third of front tibiae clove-brown (this dark area 

 is usually rather more extensive below and on under side than above), extreme 

 tips of middle and hind tibiae dark brown or brownish, pale portion of tibiae 

 clothed with bright, pale straw-yellow hair, which on outer side is sufficiently 

 long to form a more or less conspicuous fringe, denser on the hind tibiae than 

 on the others ; front tarsi black or clove-brown, middle and hind tarsi dark 

 brown, usually lighter at base ; in case of hind tarsi, first three joints, except 

 tips, and extreme base of two following joints raw-umber-coloured. 



East Africa Protectorate : type from Crater Lake, North of Mt. 

 Kenia, 15.ii.1911, "on mule" (S, A. Neave : presented by the Entomological 

 Research Committee). Para-types as follows (all collected by Mr. S. A. Neave, 

 and — with the exception of one specimen retained by the Committee — presented 



* Not shown with sufficient clearness in the figure. 



