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Some Cordia and Triplaris Insects 
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of abdomen strongly infuscated. Shining, coarsely and abundant- 
ly punctate. Everywhere with long golden-yellow semirecumbent 
pile, which at the anterior border of head is thicker and forms a 
brush. 
Frons about twice as long as broad, broadest a little below 
antennal insertions, sides slightly convergent anteriorly, an- 
terior border broadly concave. Vertex separated from frons by 
a very feeble transverse impression, strongly convex, at middle 
with a large, elongate tubercle bluntly projecting in front, bear- 
ing the ocelli. Eyes hairless. First antennal joint slender, as 
long as second and third together, second joint subcampanulate 
and about half as long as the third which is suboval and broadly 
rounded at apex; arista two-thirds as long as third joint. An- 
tennal insertions enclosed by a circular elevated carina, which 
above projects horizontally and is angulately produced at 
middle. Scutellum broadly rounded at apex, excised at sides 
and bispinose, the anterior spine slender and acute, the posterior 
broad and truncate at tip. First abdominal segment twice as 
broad as the thorax, remainder of abdomen elongate and strongly 
narrowed apically. Posterior tibiae at apex and the tarsi strongly 
incrassate, with a heavy brush of coarse, black setae on outer 
border. Wings yellow, clouded apically, veins brown. Halteres 
yellow. 
Male . Black, with black pilosity, except the terminal joint 
of antennae, the frons, apical half of abdomen, front and middle 
tibiae and all the tarsi, which are reddish brown, with yellow 
hairs. 
Transverse impression between frons and vertex strongly 
impressed. Anterior border of frons narrowly and more deeply 
excised than in the female. Scutellum at sides with subequal 
spines on either side of the convexity. 
Pupal case. Length 6.5-7 mm., width 2.75-3 mm. 
Yellowish, transparent, not reticulate. Subcylindrical. An- 
terior spiracles slender, slightly arcuate, about as long as their 
distance apart at base, black in color, with coarse, unequal, 
fossulate punctures and, on apical third, several circular im- 
