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Legs brown, unbanded, with small, simple, equal ungues. 



Wings mainly black scaled, with three yellow costal spots 

 spreading evenly on to the first long vein, all the veins dark 

 scaled, except for a small yellow spot at the base of each of the 

 two fork -cells, and at the cross-veins, and another at the lower 

 branch of the second fork-cell where it joins the costa, and one 

 on the costa where the lower branch of the fifth joins it ; fringe 

 dark, except where the lower branch of the fourth and fifth 

 veins join the border, where creamy patches occur ; fork-cells 

 both short, the base of the second posterior cell the nearer the 

 base of the wing, both nearly equal in length, the first sub- 

 marginal cell narrower than the second posterior, its stem as 

 long as the cell, stem of the second posterior as long as the 

 cell ; supernumerary cross-vein slightly in front of the mid, 

 the posterior nearly twice its own length distant from the mid. 

 Halteres pale with fuscous knob. 



Length. — 3 mm. 



$ . Head brown with bright grey sheen, the median 

 upright forked scales creamy grey, the lateral dark brown with 

 a median tuft of grey scales between the eyes ; antennae bright 

 ochreous brown, with deep brown verticillate hairs, the long 

 apical segments brown, the large basal segment deep brown ; 

 proboscis long and thin, deep brown, the scales closely appressed ; 

 palpi with the last two segments swollen, the apical one ends 

 bluntly acuminate, and is about half the length of the 

 penultimate ; the palpi are brown, except the apex, on which 

 there are grey scales, there are also golden brown hairs on the 

 last two segments ; cJypeus brown ; there are also two bright 

 golden chaetae projecting between the eyes. 



Thorax deep brown with a greyish sheen, the deep brown 

 also appearing as indistinct lines on the grey area ; in front, 

 projecting over the head, is a tuft of long, narrow-curved grey 

 scales, its surface ornamented with golden curved hair-like scales 

 and scanty golden brown bristles ; scutellum brown, pale at the 

 edge, with numerous pale golden-brown border-bristles ; meta- 

 notum brown ; pleurae ochreous brown. 



Abdomen brown with a median darker line, shiny, with pale 

 golden hairs. 



Legs deep brown, thin and long, with traces of pale areas at 

 the apices of the tibiae 5 fore ungues unequal , the larger 

 uniserrated, the smaller very minute, simple, looking like a 

 second spine to the larger one ; mid and hind equal and simple. 



