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deep brown, apex of femora and tibiae white banded, especially 

 marked on hind legs ; tarsi unhanded. 



$. Head brown, small, with dull golden-brown narrow- 

 curved scales in the middle, small dusky flat ones at the sides ; 

 palpi, proboscis, clypeus and antennae deep brown \ palpi as long 

 as the proboscis, thin, two last segments slightly swollen, with 

 long brown hairs, apex of ante-penultimate segment swollen with 

 long brown hairs on one side, no definite hair-tufts, however ; 

 last two segments nearly equal. 



Thorax uniformly brown, with narrow-curved brown scales ; 



Fig. 81. 

 Male genitalia of Reedomyia biannulata. 



scutellum brown, completely covered with flat silvery-white 

 scales ; metanotum brown ; pleurae brown, with some white 

 scales. 



Abdomen deep brown, with violet reflections ; basal white 

 bands, but on the seventh are two large basal white spots only, 

 whilst the eighth is all white scaled ; basal lobes of claspers 

 bronzy ; claspers semi-transparent, much swollen apically, re- 

 sembling a haltere with two thick dark spines, and a hook-like 

 process at the side. 



Legs brown, apices of femora and tibiae white, prominently 

 so on the hind legs, where the tibial band is quite broad ; fore 

 and mid ungues unequal, the larger simple, the smaller uniserrate, 

 hind equal and simple. 



Wings with short fork-cells, the first sub-marginal longer and 

 narrower than the second posterior, its base very slightly nearer 



