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swollen apically. Thorax clothed with dull pale ochreous and 

 reddish-brown scales giving a mottled appearance with two bare 

 median parallel lines. The ornamentation consists of two 

 reddish-brown spots in front, two long lateral, and one long 

 median patch behind. Abdomen blackish with basal white bands. 

 Legs deep brown with pale apical femoral and tibial spots. 

 Ungues of female equal and simple, the fore and mid of the male 

 unequal and uniserrate. 



9 . Head deep brown clothed with narrow-curved pale 

 scales and with small flat white ones laterally, in the middle are 

 ochreous upright forked scales, afc the sides numerous black 

 upright forked scales, giving the appearance of two black patches 

 when viewed with a hand lens. Clypeus brown. Proboscis 

 brown, deep brown and swollen apically. Palpi deep brown. 

 Antennae brown, basal segment pale fawn-coloured, slightly 

 darker on inner side. 



Thorax deep brown clothed with narrow-curved pale ochreous 

 scales with two roundish patches of a rusty red hue in front and 

 three longer patches behind, often somewhat indistinct in outline 

 and giving a somewhat mottled appearance. When distinct the 

 lateral hind patches are elongate and curved on the inner border 

 and the median one is broad and long ; in front arise two 

 nearly parallel dark median bare lines broadest anteriorly and 

 which disappear about the middle of the mesonotum ; chaetae 

 pale brown ; scutellum with narrow-curved pale scales and six 

 dark border-bristles to the mid-lobe ; pleurae pale greyish brown 

 with some patches of flat white scales. 



Abdomen deep brown with basal white curved bands not 

 extending quite across the segments ; posterior border-bristles 

 brown ; apex rather hirsute. 



Legs deep brown except the base and under side of femora 

 which are pale ochreous, apices of femora and tibiae with a pale 

 spot, most prominent on the hind tibiae, bristles of tibiae bright 

 brown, of first tarsals black ; ungues small, equal and simple. 



Wings with the first submarginal cell considerably longer 

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

 base of the wing, its stem rather more than one-half the length 

 of the cell, stem of the second posterior cell as long as the cell ; 

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

 mid cross-vein. 



Halteres with pale stem and dusky knob. 



Length. — 3*5 to 4*5 mm. 





