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21. Mellesis pechmeulata Bezzi. Plate II, fig. 5. 
Mellesis pedunculata Bezzi, Bull. Ent. Research 7 (1916) 115. 
A small species with a well-stalked abdomen, very distinct 
on account of its banded face and its simple wing pattern. 
Luzon, Laguna Province, Mount Maquiling {Baker). Minda- 
nao, Davao {Baker) . Type in Professor Baker’s collection. 
Male . — Length of body, 7.5 millimeters; of wing, 6; of the 
whole antenna, about 2. Occiput black in the middle, with a 
reddish spot above from neck to vertex, and with a yellow 
border, the latter a little broadened below. Frons proportion- 
ately narrow, less than twice as long as broad; reddish at 
base with yellow vertical plates, with yellow borders, and more- 
over rather yellowish in front; at Vertex a black crossband 
including the black ocellar dot; a dark spot toward the middle 
shaped as a broad transverse band. Lunula broad, shining 
brownish. Face very short in the middle, with less prominent 
mouth border; shining yellowish, with a shining black trans- 
verse band just above mouth border, rather dilated toward 
middle of antennal grooves; a small black spot just below root 
of antennse. Cheeks not properly linear; jowls broader than 
third antennal joint, with a brown subocular spot. Antenna? 
very long, much longer than face; first joint very elongate, 
entirely reddish, nearly bare; second joint a little shorter than 
first, blackish at base, reddish at end, with dark hairs; third 
joint narrow and elongate, quite blackish; arista yellowish, 
about as long as the whole antenna. Palpi and proboscis dirty 
yellowish. Cephalic bristles black; two pairs of well-developed 
lower orbitals; genal bristle well developed; postverticals not 
distinct or hairlike. 
Mesonotum broad and less convex, with interrupted suture; 
punctate, opaque, clothed with a short yellowish pubescence; 
back reddish, with two black, longitudinal, middle stripes, pro- 
longed beyond suture but not reaching scutellum, and with two 
broad black patches, one on each side, including the interrupted, 
yellow, transverse sutural stripe ; humeral callosities entirely yel- 
low. Pleura black in the middle, reddish on sides and below, 
punctate like the back but a little more shining; yellow meso- 
pleural stripe moderately broad, continued below with a yellow 
spot on upper border of sternopleuron ; hypopleural spot double. 
Mesophragma black, with a reddish vertical stripe along the 
middle. Scutellum twice as broad as long, yellow, with a nar- 
