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basal area. Thorax deep brown with rich golden-brown scales, 

 no definite ornamentation. Abdomen deep brown with irregular 

 basal pale scales, extending apically and scattered over the last 

 two segments ; venter with numerous pale scales. Legs brown 

 with scattered pale scales and basal pale bands. Wings with 

 "brown and yellow scales. 



J . Head deep brown with large pale creamy and golden 

 narrow-curved scales, with upright forked scales on the occiput, 

 darker at the sides giving a dark hued appearance to them, flat 

 pale scales at the sides and some brown and golden chaetae 

 projecting forwards ; palpi deep brown with white scaled apex 

 and a narrow white band towards the base and some long brown 

 chaetae ; proboscis black at the apex with scattered pale scales 

 on the basal two-thirds ; antennae brown with pallid bands and 

 pale creamy scales on the basal segment. 



Thorax deep brown with narrow-curved golden scales all over 

 it, paler in front of the scutellum ; scutellum pale brown with 

 pale creamy scales and brown border-bristles ; pleurae brown 

 with flat pale scales. Metanotum brown. 



Abdomen deep brown with pale creamy scales at the bases of 

 the segments irregularly disposed and spreading out laterally, 

 last two segments with many pale scales ; basal segment pale 

 brown with scattered pale creamy and a few dark dusky scales 

 3,ncl pale golden hairs. Venter mostly pale scaled. 



Legs with mottled brown and creamy femora and tibiae, the 

 fore and mid first tarsals and the fore two following tarsals 

 with narrow yellowish pale basal bands, the hind legs with an 

 ^xtra pale band on the third tarsal. Ungues of the fore and 

 mid legs equal and uniserrate, of the hind equal and simple. 



Wings with yellow scales scattered amongst the brown, with 

 •dense large broad spatulate and narrow linear scales. The 

 broad spatulate scales are evidently the median vein scales 

 widely expanded. First sub-marginal cell longer and narrower 

 than the second sub-marginal cell, their bases nearly level, stem 

 of the first fork cell about three-fourths the length of the cell ; 

 stem of the second posterior two-thirds the length of the cell ; 

 posterior cross-vein not quite as long as the mid about its own 

 length distant from it. 



The wings are noticeable for the fact that the scales are 

 larger than in most Grdbliamias. Halteres pale creamy. 



Length. — 4*8 mm. 



Time of capture. — December. 



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