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Thorax deep brown, clothed with narrow-curved dull golden 

 scales with two median parallel bare lines and with scantier 

 rather darker scales on each side in front of the wings and 

 another area on each side in front of these showing as darker areas 

 with a hand lens, posterior part of niesonotum paler scaled than 

 the rest, the two median parallel lines of deep brown chaetae 

 showing up prominently ; scutellum pale ochreous brown with 

 narrow-curved creamy scales and rich brown border-bristles, 

 eight to the mid lobe ; metanotum brown, paler in places : 

 pleurae pale yellowish-brown with patches of flat white scales. 



Abdomen deep brown with basal white bands and pale 

 creamy scaled venter ; hairs pale. 



Legs deep brown, femora and tibiae pale ventrally, hind 

 tibiae with apical pale spot ; ungues equal and simple. 



Wings with the first fork-cell much longer, but very little 

 narrower than the second posterior cell, its base nearer the base 

 of the wing, its stem not quite one-fifth the length of the cell, 

 stem of the second posterior not half the length of the cell ; 

 posterior cross-vein nearly twice its own length distant from the 

 mid ; lateral vein scales dense. Halteres pale. 

 Length. — 6 mm. 



$ . Palpi acuminate deep brown apically, considerably 

 longer than the proboscis, the apical segment longer than the 

 penultimate, both with brownish-black scanty hair-tufts, the 

 two apical segments about two-thirds the length of the penulti- 

 mate ; antennae brown and white banded, plume-hairs brown, 

 second and few following segments rather large. Fore and 

 mid ungues unequal, both uniserrate, hind equal and simple. 



Wings with the scales scantier and rather broader than the 

 9 ; first sub-marginal cell longer and narrower than the second 

 posterior, its base nearer the base of the wing, its stem less than 

 one-third the length of the cell ; stem of the second posterior 

 three-fourths the length of the cell ; posterior cross- vein twice 

 its own length distant from the mid ; the supernumerary cross- 

 vein slopes at a prominent angle to the mid as in the £ • 



Genitalia with long narrowish basal lobes, bluntly acuminate, 

 claspers short, curved and broadish, not half the length of the 

 basal lube ; terminal segment short and rather broad ; lateral 

 process of the basal lobe with three large and broad spines, then 

 three smaller ones, then the foliate plate, and then a single 

 spine ; the first lar^e spine is thick and ends bluntly, sword-like, 

 the second is longer, curved apically and tapering, the third is 



