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row reddish-brown basal stripe; with two black bristles at end. 
Thoracic bristles black; middle scapular as strong as lateral 
ones; one anterior supra-alar; pteropleural a little weaker than 
sternopleural. Squamuke dirty whitish; halteres whitish. 
Abdomen with a thin, cylindrical basal stalk and with an 
oval terminal club; punctate and pubescent like back of meso- 
notum, but long and erect whitish hairs at base on sides; seg- 
mentation distinct; third segment with long black cilia. First 
and second segments black with yellowish hind border, that 
of second being broader and not extending to sides ; third 
segment entirely black; fourth and fifth segments long, the 
latter longer than the former, black, with a broad reddish yellow 
middle patch, which has on the middle a narrow, black longitud- 
inal stripe, ending before hind border of last segment. Oval 
patches of fifth segment less distinct, shining but not differently 
colored. Venter very concave, with yellowish membrane and 
with black sternites, basal one clothed with long whitish hairs ; 
genitalia reddish. Coxae reddish brown ; femora black in the 
middle, yellowish at base, reddish at end; tibiae reddish, more 
or less darkened, the posterior ones being more broadly black- 
ish; tarsi reddish, with pale base; spur of middle tibiae long 
and black. 
Wings (Plate II, fig. 5) proportionally short, shining and 
iridescent. Veins black, second straight, third less curved 
downward at end and parallel with the last portion of fourth, 
which is less curved at base; small cross vein a little beyond 
middle of discoidal cell; second basal cell broad, but about twice 
as long as broad; prolongation of anal cell very long; no super- 
numerary lobe. Pattern very simple and less developed, con- 
sisting only of a narrow, dark, costal border, in the middle not 
extending beyond second longitudinal vein, while at end it is a 
little dilated below third vein but without being spotlike. First 
basal cell infuscated above second; hind cross vein not infus- 
cated; anal stripe quite wanting, only a grayish shade being 
present at end of the point of anal cell, into the terminal outer 
angle of the axillary cell. Costal cells a little infuscated ; stigma 
darker. 
Note . — The description of the Javanese M. conopoides de 
Meijere is very much like that of the present species, which, 
how r ever, is different in having well-developed lower orbital 
bristles,, and in having nonspinose front femora. 
