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elevation. Face slightly asched, pale orange yellow, bearing 

 2 rather large polished brown-ish or blackish spots, which are 

 occupying the deep pits on the sides of the middle part of the face, 

 and with 2 fine but distinct longitudinal sulca which are reaching 

 from the deep facial pits to the base of the antennal proir incene; 

 2 obUque rather broad pohshed bands from the facial pits to the 

 oral margin, at where they are hardly united eachother; piibesceace 

 blackish, rather sparse, entirely absent on the middle part of tbe 

 face and around the polished Spots, and longest and stout on the 

 oral part, at where a few transverse wrinckles are conspicuoiis. 

 Jowls very short, clothed with rather abimdant blackish hairs 

 which are longer than those on the face. Bac!c of the head greyish 

 yellow, bearing black pubescence on the eyemargins only. Pro- 

 boscis rather stout, blackish brown, sparsely hairy beneath, bearing 

 a broad similar coloured sucker-flap clothed with very few short 

 blackish hairs. Palpi long, slightly shorter than the proboscis, 

 l3dng more against the proboscis, reddish yellow or pale brown 

 bearing a few black hairs which become longer and denser towards 

 the base. Antennae longer than the head, orange yellow or reddish 

 yellow, the annulate portion of the 3. joint brown, becoming black 

 at the apex; 1. joint about twice as long as the 2., stouter; 2. joint 

 with an inconspicuous subsequent annulation; 3. joint longer than 

 the 2 basal joints, bearing a very few inconspicuous fine hairs on 

 the apical margin of each annulation, the annulate portion longer 

 than she basal portion. Eyes quite bare; in life brilliant green, 

 with strong coppery reflections; facets all equal. — Thorax dull 

 orange yellow marked with 3 broad greyish stripes, the out er ones 

 interrupted at the suture, each one about half as wide as the median, 

 non of them reaching the posterior margin of the thorax and united 

 behind together. Pleurae greyish brown, somewhat tinged with 

 orange yellow, scutellum orange yellow, about twice as wide as it 

 is long, posterior margin convex with very short straight lateral 

 margins. Pubescence on the disc of the thorax very short 

 and brownish, on the margins rather long and yellowish; 

 the pubescence on the meso- and ptero-pleurae , and on 

 the Upper and bind parts of the sterno-pleurae, blackish and long, 

 on the meta-pleurae rather denser and dull yellow with a few 

 black hairs intermixed; the pubescence on the scutellum brownish 

 yellow, rather sparse, becoming longer and much conspicuous 

 towards the posterior end. — W ings about equal as long as the length 

 of the body, greyish, distinctly smoky brown surrounding allveins, 

 excepting of the lower branch of the posterior fork, and postical, 

 anal and axillary veins, with brown costal cell, yellowish stigma 

 and brownish veins (except the postical vein yellowish), in a 

 specimen almost entirely smoky, excepting of the anal area nearly 

 hyaline, and with a very small hyaline spot in the 2. submarginal 

 cell; and anal cell distinctly open; upper branch of the cubital fork 

 bearing a rather long recurrent veinlet near the base, 1. posterior 



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