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show pale dull mauve reflections ; a median area of narrow-curved 

 pale creamy scales roughly triangular in form, the base being 

 towards the nape and the apex coming between the eyes, numerous 



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Culiciomyia inornata. Theobald. 



Head of 9 and £ and 9 scutellum. 



dark, thin, upright forked scales ; chaetae rich brown. Palpi 

 small, brown, also the proboscis. Antennae brown ; basal 

 segment brown, with minute hairs. 



Thorax deep brown, with narrow-curved brown scales, 

 appearing much darker under the microscope than with a hand 

 lens, when they give the thorax a reddish-brown hue, some paler 

 scales before the scutellum ; chaetae brown ; scutellum pale 

 brown with narrow-curved pale scales, and eight brown border- 

 bristles to the mid lobe \ metanotum bright brown ; pleurae 

 brown and grey with some black chaetae. 



Abdomen bright brown with deep brown scales showing dull 

 violet reflection \ first segment with a median patch of dark 

 scales and long brown hairs \ border-bristles brown ; venter 

 yellowish. 



Legs brown, unhanded ; femora rather swollen, ochreous 

 ventrally ; ungues all equal and simple. 



Wings with rather short fork-cells ; the first sub-marginal 

 longer and narrower than the second posterior, its base about 



