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yellow band on the apical half, below the yellow band the 

 proboscis has long dense black hairs and on the dark area 

 towards the apex numerous shorter dark hairs. Antennae 

 banded brown and white ; verticillate hairs brown ; the two 

 long thin apical segments with dense pale yellowish hairs all over 

 them. 



Thorax brown with narrow-curved pale golden scales in front 



and pale creamy white ones at the sides 

 forming more or less pale lateral patches, 

 in front of the wings at the sides a patch 

 of outstanding yellow upright scales 

 very similar to the forked scales of the 

 head, also numerous black and brown 

 bristles rather short thick and curved ; 

 prothoracic lobes with small pale flat 

 scales and yellow hairs ; scutellum brown 

 with small narrow-curved dark scales 

 basally, pale creamy yellow apically ; 

 border-bristles black and long ■ meta- 

 notum brown • pleurae with patches of 

 small flat white scales. 



Abdomen hairy, deep brown, with 



narrow creamy-yellow basal bands ; the 



first segment testaceous with a median 



tuft of flat dark scales and yellowish-brown hairs ; apical segment 



with scattered yellow scales all over it ; genitalia brown, hairy 



(not scaly), claspers simple, brown. 



Legs brown with scattered pale scales ; all tarsal segments 

 with narrow pale bands involving both sides of the joints. 



Wings with the fork-cells short, the first submarginal longer 

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

 of the wing, its stem about two-thirds the length of the cell ; 

 stem of the second posterior rather longer than the cell • posterior 

 cross-vein about its own length distant from the mid cross- vein ; 



Fig. 213. 



Trichopronomyia annulata. 

 Theobald. <?. 



a, Apex of proboscis ; b, scales 

 in front of wing. 





5S5S»ws 



Mfc 



Fig. 214. 

 Wing of Trichopronowyra annulata. (<$ .) Theobald. 



