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to the anterior margin of the mesonotum. The trans- 
verse sutnre is bordered by a complete band of similar 
tomentnm from its medial end to the edge of the meso- 
pleura. There is a similar band, rather narrow just be- 
fore the scutellum including the posterior border of the 
postcalli. This band is not wider in the middle. On the 
anterior half of the mesonotum there is a rather wide 
but not conspicuous, grey, medial, pollinose vittse. It is 
bordered on either side by a faint but wider blackish 
stripe with faint, brown pollen and outside of these sub- 
medial vittae there are large, triangular areas of a faint 
but still lighter pollen. The remaining lateral area of 
the mesonotum, the notopleura excluded, are dull, dead 
black. The pleura are black with pale yellowish grey 
pollen on the posterior border of the mesopleura. The 
pile of the pleura is yellowish white and not very long. 
Scutellum black becoming obscurely dark brown on the 
posterior third of the middle only. The scutellar pile is 
black and rather sparse. Squamae subtranslucent grey- 
ish brown with narrow black border and brownish yellow 
fringe. Halteres orange. Legs: black with the ventral 
apical half of the hind femora very dark reddish brown ; 
this reddish color includes the whole of the extreme apex 
of the hind femora. The hind tibiae are very dark red- 
dish brown throughout and while the anterior and middle 
tarsi are nearly or quite black, the hind tarsi are very 
dark brown. Wings : the entire anterior margin of the 
wings including the costal, subcostal cells and the stig- 
mal areas are rather uniformly reddish brown. This 
color includes all of the submarginal cell, except the 
loop, and it extends into the upper basal corners of the 
first posterior cell, into nearly all of the first basal cell 
above the vena spuria, except the outer lower corners, 
and it includes the posterior basal half of the first basal 
cell and more dilutely the basal half of the second basal 
cell. Abdomen: entirely black with a thin, inconspicuous 
band of sparse, appressed, yellow tomentum in the mid- 
dle of the posterior border of the first segment. The 
pile of the second segment is entirely black setate and 
appressed except upon the lateral margin and the an- 
