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pale buff colored above, lateral margin sparsely sprinkled with 

 small irregular black specks; legs pale Yellowish, nnsported, 

 fonrTb and fiftli tarsal joints slightly darkened; claws simple; 

 legs and abdomen covered with long, loose yellow hair; wings imi- 



Fig. ice Mandible and mandibular fan of Savomyia albipes 



formlv pale yellowish, the veins, the hair on them and the halteres 

 same color. Length o^o mm. 



Male. Antennae thickly clothed with long, black grayish 

 plumes : basal segment subglobose. yellowish : other segments semi- 

 transparent, annulate with yellowish. Palpi short, thickly 

 clothed with dark brown or almost black 

 hairs. Basal segment rather short, sub- 

 conic, second and third equal, stout; termi- 

 nal segment slender, nearly twice the 

 length of the third. Eyes, black. Thorax 

 with submedian, straw yellow lines abbre- 

 viated posteriorly and margined laterally 

 with dark brown: sublateral stripes of the 

 same color posteriorly, margined with 

 mg. 104 Leaflike append- dark brown anteriorly and toward the 

 agesofs. albipes middle and with a rather broad, lateral, 



white strip»e : sparsely clothed with rather long, fulvous hairs. 

 Abdomen whitish, with an irregular, bluish tint in plac-e^ and 

 irregular fuscous spots at the anterior lateral margins of the first 

 to sixth segments inclusive : several minute dorsal, black spots on 

 the posterior abdominal segments. Ventral surface unicolorous, 



