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roundish area on each side in front, not very noticeable under 

 the microscope as it is under a hand lens ; scutellum very pallid 

 and the small almost translucent scales of a pale creamy grey ; 

 the mid lobe with six prominent dark border-bristles ; the chaetae 

 of the posterior area of the mesonotum are very noticeable owing 

 to the integument and scales becoming very pale before the 

 scutellum, being almost uniform in colour with it ; metanotum 

 pale ochreous ; pleurae very pallid, with some flat white scales. 



Abdomen brown, clothed with deep brown scales with dull 

 violet reflections and with curved basal creamy yellow bands and 

 pale basal lateral spots, venter creamy yellow ; basal segment 

 testaceous with some dusky scales in the middle ; hairs brown 

 with golden reflections. 



Legs brown, unbanded, the femora at the base and beneath, 

 especially of the hind legs white, a small pale knee spot to the 

 hind legs and also a pale spot at the apex of the tibiae ; ungues 

 small, curved, equal and simple. 



Wings with moderately long fork-cells, the first sub-marginal 

 longer and narrower than the second posterior cell, its base 

 slightly nearer the base of the wing than that of the latter, in 

 length about two and a half times that of the stem ; stem of the 

 second fork-cell not quite as long as the cell ; posterior cross-vein 

 shorter than the mid, about three times its own length distant 

 from it. Halteres pale ochreous. 



Length. — 4*5 to 5 mm. 



<J. Palpi acuminate brown, the last two segments deep 

 brown and also the apex of the antepenultimate, the last two 

 segments of nearly equal length, with a few long black hairs 

 which also pass to the apex of the antepenultimate segment, but 

 which barely can be called hair-tufts. Proboscis brown, dark at 

 the apex and swollen. Ungues of fore and mid legs unequal, 

 uniserrate, of the hind legs equal and simple. 



Length. — 4 * 5 mm. 



Habitat. — India (Dr. Christophers). 



Observations. — Described from several $ \s and a ^ sent to 

 the Museum by Dr. Christophers. It is a somewhat obscure 

 species, the thoracic ornamentation not always being very 

 noticeable. The best character to identify it by is the presence 

 of the black patches of forked scales on the head, in conjunction 

 with the thoracic adornment and banded abdomen it should thus 

 be fairly easy to distinguish. 



There is considerable variation in the number of scutcllar 



