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dark brown, mid tibiae less so, hind tibiae entirely dark 
brown except the narrow base. Tarsi yellow except last 
three black joints of hind tarsi. Wings: hyaline, stigma 
cream colored, brown at either end. 
Three males. Buitzenborg, Java (Bryant and Palmer). 
Type in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 
Psuedovolueella apimima n. sp. (Plate 10, Fig. 5) 
Male. Length 14 mm. 
Head: eyes touch for distance equal width of posterior 
ocelli. Front very short, with narrow median groove or line. 
Head and face produced deeply but very flat and not pro- 
duced forward. Antennal prominence inconspicuous. Front 
and face and cheeks light pale brown, pale yellow pollinose, 
except for bare shining obtuse facial knob and pollinose, 
darker strips between cheeks and face. Antennae brown, 
third joint half again as long as wide. Arista twice as long 
as third joint, densely plumose, pale brown, its rays long, 
forty to forty -two above. Eyes bare. Thorax: dull brown, ob- 
scurely shining, with exceptionally narrow whitish pollinose 
streaks on the suture. Pile thick, erect, pale, growing bushy 
on the pleurae. Scutellum reddish yellow to brown, with 
bushy, dense, long, yellow pile. Squamae and pleurae light 
brown. Abdomen: light brown on first, second segments 
and dark blackish on the third and fourth, a brown band 
formed as two slender wedges on the second segment whose 
points meet medially and a convex brown band on the base 
of the same segment. On the third segment a single, un- 
interrupted, yellowish-brown band, narrowly reaching the 
sides, widest in the middle and placed on the anterior half 
of the segment. Pile of abdomen very short, appressed, 
yellow and longer on the base of the abdomen, bushy on the 
basal corners, yellow on the light bands, black with some 
yellow hairs on the dark portions. Hypopygium with scat- 
tered, long, black bristles. Legs: light brown, the hind 
femora much darker on the outer half. Pile of legs light in 
color, but sides of hind femora outwardly bear numerous, 
short, black bristles. Hind femora strongly thickened, 
greatest past middle, an accentuated concavity ventrally, 
due to a terminal knob. Hind tibiae basally with a small 
