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pies at least three-fifths the width of the mesonotum. 
The humeri are pale yellow. The scutellum is trans- 
lucent, light brownish yellow without preapical depres- 
sion but with a linear marginal crease or furrow running 
from close to the base on either side around the margin 
of the dorsal edge of the scutellum. The scutellum has 
some thirty or more fine long discal black hairs and more 
numerous but sparse short black hairs together with five 
pairs of long, slender black bristles on the margin. 
Mesonotum with two black notopleurals, two supra-alars 
and two post callar and one mesopleural bristle which 
are all black. Pleura pale yellow on propleura, ptero- 
pleura, metapleura, upper hypopleura and narrowly on 
the upper sternopleura. Remainder of pleura brownish 
black. Pleural pile pale yellow. Squamae translucent 
greyish with sepia border and fringe, the halteres yel- 
lowish white. Legs: almost black; actually of a very 
dark blackish sepia color. The base of the anterior and 
middle tibiae are a little paler in color hut the difference 
in shade is not readily noticeable. This is also true of 
the base of all the basitarsi which are actually yellowish 
brown but heavily obscured by the black pile of the legs. 
The legs are almost wholly black pilose with a few scat- 
tered golden hairs towards the base of the femora. 
Wings: hyaline, the dark brown villi nearly restricted to 
the outer third. The basal half of the stigmal portion 
of the subcostal cell lying beyond the confluence of the 
costa and subcosta is pale yellow. The remaining outer 
part of this cell is hyaline. There is a diffuse brown 
spot in the subcostal cell below the confluence of costa 
and subcosta which is about twice as long as wide. There 
is a very small faint brown spot at the base of the submar- 
ginal cell but the cross veins are not tinged with brown. 
The marginal cell is barely open and is perhaps better 
described as closed at the costa. Abdomen: first and 
second segments quite translucent and very pale yellow 
with the posterior margin of the second segment rather 
narrowly brownish black; this band is a little wider in 
the middle of the segment where its band occupies not 
quite a third of the medial length of the segment. The 
