BY FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE. 
1759 
— Length of antennae 0’070 inch ... 1-77 millimetres. 
Expanse of wings 0*160x0'035 ... 4‘06 x 0‘88 
Size of body O'lGO x 0‘030 ... 4-O6x0'76 
and 2- — Antennae in the ^ about the length of the palpi, 
brownish-ochreous ; first joint of the scapus black or dark brown ; 
in the 9 about 4 the length of the palpi, dark brown with a 
whitish pubescence and brown verticils ; first joint of the scapus 
and basal half of the second testaceous-brown. Head ocliraceous- 
brown, with golden-yellow hairs. Proboscis scarcely longer than 
the palpi, brown, almost black in the Palpi bi’own, almost 
black in the Thorax testaceous-bi’own, darker in the 9 , with 
three longitudinal double rows of pale golden-yellow hairs ; lateral 
borders rather densely covered with pale golden-yellow hairs ; 
pleurae testaceous-brown in the fuscous in the ^ scutellum 
ochre-yellow in the (J, testaceous in the fringed with long 
golden-yellow hairs ; metanotum testaceous in the very deep 
fuscous-brown in the Halteres deep brown, the stem yellow. 
Abdomen in the ^ twice the length of the thoi’ax, shorter in the 
$ ; fuliginous-brown, levigate, clothed with golden-yellow hairs ; 
forceps testaceous, densely haired. Legs clothed with violet- 
brown scales, the hind femora pale yellow for about 4 of their 
length, the fore and intermediate pairs pale yellow beneath only. 
Coxae ochreous- or testaceous-brown. In the hind-legs the meta- 
tarsus about 1 longer than the tibia. Wings in the the length of 
the thorax and abdomen taken together, and in the 9 length 
of the whole body, liyaline, tinged with pale yellowish-brown at 
the stigmatic region, the veins thickly covered with light brown 
scales, darker at the stigmatic region. Sub-costal ci’oss-vein 
situated about the middle of the auxiliary vein. Auxiliary vein 
reaching the costa about opposite the middle cro.ss-vein, and con- 
siderably before the tip of the posterior Ijranch of the fifth longi- 
tudinal vein ; second longitudinal vein appearing to originate in the 
first basal cell o]>])Osite the base of the anal cell and some distance 
before the marginal cross-vein ; third longitudinal vein aj)poaring 
to commence a short distance before the supernumerary cross-vein 
