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short blue line on each side before the roots of the wings ; pro- 

 thoracic lobes clothed with flat pale blue scales ; scutellum 

 brown, testaceous along the edge, lateral lobes with small flat 

 black scales (mid lobe rubbed) ; four posterior border-bristles to 

 the mid lobe ; metanotum deep brown ; pleurae brown, with a 

 small median patch of pale blue scales. 



Abdomen deep brown, with rich deep brown scales and pale 

 golden border-bristles, on the sides of the last three or four 

 apical segments are traces of basal brown scales ; venter pale 

 ochreous with brown border-bristles ; legs deep brown, bases 

 testaceous, femora pale beneath ; ungues small equal and 

 simple ; wings with brown scales except at the base of the fifth 

 long vein where there is a row of broad flat white scales ; costa 

 and first long vein with very dark scales, long lanceolate and 

 prominent lateral vein-scales on the second and third veins and a 

 few on the fork of the fourth \ the second long vein lying very 

 close to the first, the upper branch of the small first sub- 

 marginal cell being particularly closely applied ; the stem of the 

 first sub-marginal cell about two and a half times as long as the 

 cell, that of the first posterior slightly longer; posterior cross- 

 vein twice the length of the mid and about its own length 

 distant from it ; mid cross- vein much shorter than the super- 

 numerary ; the scales on the fifth (except base) are dark and 

 also on the sixth except at the apex which is nude in the 

 specimen examined ; hal teres with testaceous stem and black 

 knob. 



Length. — 2 mm. 



$ . Head deep brown, clothed in the middle with flat dusky 

 scales, the sides with flat grey and blue scales, the head deep 

 brown behind, there are also a few upright deep brown forked 

 scales ; cephalic chaetae black. 



Antennae plumose, the segments half brown, half grey, plume 

 hairs dark brown, basal segment very large deep brown ; clypeus 

 prominent black ; palpi very minute, deep black ; proboscis black, 

 swollen apically. 



Mesothorax deep brown with narrow-curved brown scales, 

 apparently a line of blue scales before the root of the wings as in 

 the female ; scutellum brown with deep brown small flat scales, 

 and four bristles to the mid lobe ; metanotum pale brown basally 

 dark brown apically ; pleurae brown with some pale and azure 

 blue flat scales. 



Abdomen as in the female. 



