Genus Lophoscelomyia. 93 



•at the junction of the third and fourth segments and some pallid 

 hairs at the tip. Proboscis covered with short black scales ; 

 labellae fawn coloured. 



Mesonotum with the greater part of the upper surface of a 

 pale fawn colour (in some lights it has a greenish tinge) with a 

 dark brown line in the centre in front ; on either side there are 

 two dark brown patches separated by a narrow pale line. 



Looked at sideways these patches look lighter except for a 

 small round dark spot at the upper part of the pale line 

 separating the two patches. In front is a rosette of fairly broad 

 •curved scales, white in colour; the rest of the mesonotum is 

 covered with scattered pale golden hair-like curved scales (white 

 in some lights) and pale golden bristles. Prothoracic lobes 

 elongated forwards but not mammillated ; a tuft of black spatulate 

 scales placed on their anterior superior face and there are also 

 some black bristles. 



Scutellum with the central part dark brown, black under a 

 hand-lens ; the lateral portions same colour as mesonotum ; a few 

 pallid curved hair-like scales are scattered irregularly over it, and 

 the bristles are brown in colour. Metanotum the same colour as 

 the mesothorax, with a dark brown central stripe. 



Wings with the costa black scaled, except for two yellow 

 scaled spots involving the first long vein and the second spot 

 involves the upper branch of the second long vein. The first 

 spot is placed rather more than half way from the base of the 

 costa, the second just before the apex of the wing. There are 

 two patches of black scales, one at the base of the second long 

 vein and the other at the base of the third and at the base of the 

 fourth. There is a light scaled area on the lower branch of the 

 second long vein. The first submarginal cell longer and narrower 

 than the second posterior cell, with its base nearer the base of 

 the wing. All the rest of the veins clothed with black scales. 

 Fringe black except opposite the yellow apical spot, where it is 

 golden yellow. 



Pleurae dark brown, marked with pallid lines. 



Legs with coxae pallid ; fore legs clothed with black spindle- 

 shaped scales with a purplish hue in some lights ; knee spot pale, 

 and a few pale scales at the junction of tibia and first tarsal. 

 Mid legs the same as the front, except for a conspicuous patch of 

 white scales on the dorsum of the femora just before the apex. 

 Hind legs have a little before the apex of the femora a dense tuft 

 of lanceolate scales which stand out on either sides conspicuously ; 



