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stripes, the middle one even broader than supra-alar ones, and 
all abbreviated before scutellum ; humeral and notopleural calli 
yellow; yellow supra-alar stripes continued with a small yellow 
spot in front of suture. Pleura black, with reddish sutures and 
reddish propleural region ; on mesopleuron a broad yellow patch 
continued below with a rather large spot on upper part of ster- 
nopleuron; a double yellow hypopleural spot. Mesophragma 
and postscutellum entirely black. Scutellum yellow, punctulate 
and whitish dusted, with a very narrow, black basal stripe; two 
pairs of bristles, the basal pair a little weaker than the apical. 
All the bristles black; middle scapular long and strong; one 
anterior supra-alar; pteropleural weaker than mesopleural. 
Halteres and squamulse whitish. 
Abdomen rounded and convex, restricted at base, with normal 
segmentation, punctulate and pubescent like back of mesonotum. 
First and second segments together more yellowish, chiefly on 
posterior half of second; black at base and on sides, the black 
base of second forming a black transverse middle band, not 
reaching sides ; long whitish hairs near the base. Third segment 
reddish; a broad and complete black basal band, broadened on 
sides; fourth and fifth segments reddish, with a broad black 
patch on each side ; last three segments with a black longitudinal 
middle stripe, united at base with the black band of third seg- 
ment, and at end abbreviated a little before l'eaching hind 
border of fifth segment. Third segment of male with long 
black cilia; oval patches of fifth segment in both sexes more 
opaque and more dusted than the surrounding parts; oviposi- 
tor as long as last two abdominal segments together, rather 
swollen, reddish, more or less infuscated above at base and 
at end. Venter reddish, with black basal and terminal stern- 
ites. Coxse more or less brownish; femora yellowish, broadly 
infuscated at end, those of front pair almost entirely infuscated ; 
four anterior tibiae blackish, two posterior ones even quite black 
in the female; in the male all tibiae more lightly colored with 
darkened end; tarsi whitish at base. 
Wings (Plate I, fig. 9) proportionally broad and long, shin- 
ing and iridescent ; nervation normal, with second vein straight, 
third a little curved downward at end; small cross vein placed 
a little beyond middle of discoidal cell ; last portion of fouiTh 
vein curved at base. Supernumerary lobe of male very promi- 
nent and exaggerated. Pattern very much like that of C. pyn- 
nephes; costal cells hyaline; costal border narrow, not extending 
below beyond second vein or only a little so, and not dilated at 
