BY FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE. 
1749 
more than | the length of the palpi, the basal half of each of the 
first eleven flagellar joints whitish or yellowish ; in the ^ some- 
what longer than the proboscis. Head brown or oclu’eous-brown 
(when denuded), densely covered with golden-yellow scales and 
hairs. Proboscis covered with bx'own or brownish-ochreous scales, 
violet-brown or violet-black at the base and towards the extremity ; 
in the ^ about seven times the length of the palpi. Palpi in the 
light ochreous-brown, the scales with a faint violaceous 
tinge, the fourth joint with a pale indistinct naked yellow 
ring at the base ; in the ^ uniformly covered with violet-black 
scales. Thorax generally ochreous- or testaceous-brown, sometimes 
darker (when denuded), densely covered with golden-yellow scales, 
indistinctly traversed by four very fine naked lines,* two median 
parallel ones terminating at an oblong bare space immediately in 
front of the scutellum, and two lateral curved lines, running straight 
from the scutellum to nearly the niiddle of the thorax then 
turning off to the lateral margin, these latter being frequently 
imperceptible ; lateral margin and posterior portion of the thorax 
densely beset with long golden-yellow hairs ; pleurrn more or less 
ochreous- or testaceous-brown, frequently very pale, sometimes 
reddish-brown, with a few small, and often indistinct, patches of 
white scales ; scutellum ochre-yellow, or ochreous-brown, covered 
with golden-yellow scales and fringed with long golden-yellow 
hairs ; metanotum ochreous or light brown. Halteres pallid or 
ochre-yellow, the club infuscated. Abdomen more than twice the 
length of the thorax in the shorter in the ^ ; covered superiorly 
with violet-black or violet-brown scales, each segment bordered 
anteriorly with a narrow band of pale ochre-yellow ; all the 
segments densely fringed posteriorly and beneath with golden- 
yellow hairs ; venter covered with whitisii or yellowish scales ; ^ 
forceps and 9 ovipositor ochreous-yellow, densely haired. Legs 
covered with violet-brown scales, the femora with white scales 
•These lines are often very difficult to make out except in fresh specimens, 
Imt their course can always he plainly seen on a perfectly denuded thorax 
when viewed in a certain light, being then represente<l liy pale lines. 
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