BY FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE. 
1197 
Antennie somewhat more slender than in atricauda, longer than 
the thorax ; joints of the scapus and first four or five flagellar 
joints I’eddish-ochraceous, remainder of flagellar joints brown, 
their pubescence with a grey reflection. Front and vertex 
ochraceous, the lateral ocelli surrounded by black. Hypostoma 
and palpi greyish-ochraceous. Thorax dull brownish-ochraceous, 
with traces of three brown longitudinal stri]>es, the lateral ones 
reach the scutellum and are very distinct ; densely covered 
with short brownish-yellow hairs, the lateral margins and 
scutellum with long brown setae ; pleurae and metathorax deep 
brown ; scutellum dull ochraceous, more or less tinged with bi’own. 
Halteres yellow, with apparently no pubescence. Abdomen wider 
than, and about twice the length of, the thorax, considerably 
flattened, dull ochraceous, the second to the fifth segment with 
two large deep brown spots, meeting and forming a broad band in 
the fourth and fifth segments in most specimens ; posterior margin 
of the first segment slightly marked with brown ; beneath dull 
ochraceous, the last two or three segments indistinctly marked 
with brownish ; anal joint setiferous, ochraceous, forceps ochra- 
ceous. Coxse, femora and tibiie greyish-ochraceous ; tar.si and 
tibial spurs smoky ochraceous ■, tibial spines almost fuliginous ; 
the fox’e tibiae and the hind femora and tibiae slightly tipped with 
brown. In the fore-legs the tibiae j longer than metatarsus ; the 
tarsi about twice the length of the tibiae. Wings much longer 
than the abdomen, pellucid, with a pale brownish-grey tint ; a 
more or less triangular brown spot, having its base in the second 
longitudinal vein a short distance from the tip and its apex on the 
anterior branch of the fork at an equally short distance from the 
base ; a more or less distinct pale brown marking at the base of 
the first sub-marginal cell and an irregular streak under the fourth 
longitudinal vein, beginning under the base of the anterior branch 
and extending more than half-way to the margin of the wing ; 
the costal and first two longitudinal veins brown, the rest pale 
brownish-yellow. Auxiliary vein joining tlie costa almost imper- 
ceptibly before the origin of the third longitudinal vein; first longi- 
tudinal vein reaching the costa opposite or almost imperceptibly 
