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Thorax deep rich brown clothed with very small narrow- 

 curved brown scales somewhat larger, scantier and more irregular 

 on the median line, with a few pale golden ones on each side, 

 ending anteriorly in a pale golden mass of scales and also behind 

 around the bare space in front of the scutellum ; also traces of a 

 sub-median line, which has about the middle a mass of pale 

 creamy scales forming two more or less distinct spots and ending 

 posteriorly in creamy scaled lines ; pale scales also present around 

 the front of the mesonotum, the median and sub-median lines 

 with black chaetae (these lines show more prominently with a 

 hand lens than under the two-third power) ; chaetae black ; 

 scutellum brown with narrow-curved creamy scales and brown 

 border-bristles ; metanotum brown ; pleurae brown with pale flat 

 scales. 



Abdomen deep blackish-brown with basal creamy-white bands 

 and pale golden hairs and border-bristles ; venter mostly pale 

 creamy scaled. 



Legs deep brown with bronzy reflections, apex of femora and 

 tibiae yellow and also base and under surface of femora ; ungues 

 equal and simple, rather large. 



Wings with the lateral vein scales very thin, but dense, fork- 

 cells rather short, the first sub-marginal longer and narrower 

 than the second posterior, its base very slightly nearer the apex 

 of the wing, its stem about half the length of the wing ; stem of 



Fig. 156. 

 Wing of Cvliaeta absobrina. Felt. ?. 



the second posterior cell more than half the length of the cell, 

 which is widened towards the edge of the wing ; mid cross- vein 

 in front of the supernumerary and the posterior a little behind 

 the mid almost in a line with the supernumerary ; halteres with 

 pale stem and dusky apex. 

 Length. — 6*5 to 7 mm. 



