BY FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE. 
1733 
than in the 5 , six times the length of the palpi; generally black or 
deep brown, sometimes a little whitish or yellowish beneath at 
middle. Palpi black or deep brown; in the ^ the last four joints 
ringed with white at the base, in the 5 the fourth joint with a 
slight ring of white at the base and the minute terminal joint 
entirely white. Thorax 
dish -brown (when denu- 
brownish - golden scales, 
often very indistinct 
made somewhat more 
which give the thorax a 
median longitudinal line, 
/ 
very deep fuscous or red- 
■y ded), densely covered with 
traversed by five very fine 
naked lines, which are 
III prominent by white scales 
silky appearance : — a 
3ver bordered with pale scales. 
terminating before the scutellum in an almost triangular bare 
space marked with two very small patches of white scales 
anteriorly and one near each cox’ner at the base ; a short oblique 
line at the humeri and a lateral, almost hooked-shaped, one 
running from the scutellum for rather more than half the length of 
the thorax then turning towards the lateral margin, both bordered 
by a slight line of white scales and the last with a small patch of 
white at the beginning of the bend in front ; a larger more or less 
distinct, indeterminable patch above the origin of the wings ; 
pleurae fuscous or reddish-brown, marbled with small patches of 
white scales ; some brown hairs about the origin of the wings ; 
scutellum dark brovvn or testaceous-brown, adorned with three 
patches of white scales, and fringed with long brown hairs ; 
metanotum brown. Halteres fuscous-brown, the stem often 
entirely testaceous. Abdomen in the ^ more than twice tlie 
length of the thorax, in the ^ about twice the length ; black or deep 
brown, with an olivaceous tinge ; in the ^ each segment very 
distinctly bordered anteriorly with a narrow band of white, in the 
^ this border is very slight, sometimes only occurring in the middle 
of the anterior margin, or entirely absent, generally with a distinct 
white spot laterally on each ; the segments densely fringed posteri- 
orly and laterally with pale yellowish hairs more dense and still' 
in the ^ than in the Q, particularly at the sides ; venter more or 
less covered with white scales; ^ forceps and lamellae of the ^ 
no 
