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scales ; the back of the head clothed with golden curved and up- 
right forked scales, a patch of pale creamy flat scales on each side, 
and then a patch of flat black scales; palpi black scaled, the apex 
white, and also a ring of white scales at the base of the fourth 
joint ; antennae dark brown, with pale pubescence and pale 
rings, basal joint testaceous with yellow scales, basal half of the 
second joint also testaceous ; proboscis black ; thorax bright 
deep reddish-brown, with numerous thin hair-Jike, curved, golden 
scales ; scutellum pale testaceous, with golden - yellow scales, 
paler than on the mesonotum, and long brown bristle;, to the 
posterior borders ; metanotum reddish-brown ; pleura? reddish- 
brown, with patches of creamy-white scales. Abdomen covered 
with dusky black scales, each segment with a narrow white basal 
patch, scarcely to be called a band, somewhat curved and each 
segment bordered with golden bristles ; there is also a small white 
basal spot on each side of the segments ; venter covered with 
creamy- white and dark scales. Legs with the coxse chestnut- 
brown, with a few white and black scales ; femora white at the 
base and beneath, black towards the apex, and mottled at the 
base above and at the apex below with black and white scales, 
extreme apex yellow ; tibia? deep brown to black ; fore metatarsi 
and first two tarsal joints of the fore and mid legs basally 
banded yellowish - white, the bands being much more distinct 
in^the mid than in the fore legs, last two joints black ; in the 
hind legs the metatarsi and the first three tarsal joints have very 
broad, white, basal bands, the last only being black ; tibia? with 
a few golden bristles and a line of smaller pallid hairs ; hind 
metatarsi about one-third shorter than the hind tibiae. Ungues 
of the fore and mid legs thick, equal and uniserrated. Wings 
longer than the abdomen, the veins very densely covered with 
brown scales ; testaceous at the base ; first sub-marginal cell 
longer and narrower than the second posterior cell, its base a 
little nearer the base of the wing than that of the latter, its stem 
about two and a half times shorter than the cell ; stem of the second 
posterior cell about one and a half times less ; posterior cross- 
vein situated about its own length distant from the mid cross- 
vein and a little longer than the latter ; mid cross-vein almost 
under the junction of the sub-costal and costal. Halteres och- 
raceous, with the knob fuscous on one side. 
Length, 5 to 6 mm. 
$ . Palpi deep brown, with a white basal band to the apical 
and penultimate joints and a third broad pale band lower down ; 
hair tufts on the last two joints and on the apex of the ante- 
penultimate pale brown ; apical joint considerably shorter than 
the penultimate joint. Antenna? with bright brown plume 
hairs. Proboscis thin, black. Thorax ornamented as in the $ ; 
Abdomen with distinct basal white bands. Legs banded as in 
the 2 , but the femora mottled with yellow instead of white 
