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upright forked scales in front and broader dusky ones behind, the 

 sides with ochreous flat scales. 



Proboscis fawn coloured, slightly dusky at the tip. Palpi 

 thin, testaceous with irregular dusky scales. Clypeus fawn 

 coloured. Antennae brown, testaceous at the base, with a few 

 small flat dusky scales on the last two segments. Thorax brown ; 

 clothed with narrow-curved rather dull pale golden scales and 

 with golden-brown and brown bristles ; scutellum pale ochreous, 

 clothed with small flat silvery- white scales (in some lights they 

 appear dull grey), border-bristles brown, six large and four small 

 ones posteriorly to the mid-lobe ; metanotum brown, with grey 

 tomentum ; pleurae very pale ochreous with three irregular 

 patches of grey scales. 



Abdomen deep brown with dull violet reflections, the 

 segments with narrow basal creamy bands and traces of pale 

 scales apically and pallid border-bristles ; lobes of female 

 genitalia dark, prominent and acuminate. 



Legs unhanded, brown, with coppery reflections ; coxae and 

 base and under side of femora pallid \ fore and mid ungues equal 

 and uniserrated. 



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

 much longer and slightly narrower than the second posterior cell, 

 its stem nearly equal to the length of the cell ; stem of the 

 second posterior as long as the cell, posterior cross-vein rather 

 more than its own length distant from the mid cross-vein. 

 Halteres pallid. 



Length. — 4 ■ 5 mm. 



$ . Head, thorax and scutellum as in the $? . 

 Abdomen showing only a few pale basal scales of a dull 

 ochreous hue ; border-bristles pale golden-brown ; genitalia with 

 thick, densely hairy basal lobes, hairs bright golden-yellow ; 

 claspers very peculiar, consisting of a narrow stem and a large 

 round, swollen apex with a mass of chaetae on one side ; on the 

 lower surface of the apical segment there projects on each side a 

 long curved tuft of golden hairs. Palpi long and thin, brown, 

 last two segments about equal length, the apical one bluntly 

 acuminate, a few longish hairs on both, and on the apex of 

 the ante-penultimate segment; proboscis ochreous except at 

 the apex, where it is dark brown. Fork-cells of wings very 

 short, about the same length ; the first sub-marginal narrower 

 than the second posterior cell, their stems much longer than 

 the cells, 



