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quite one half higher than broad and considerably narrowed above by 
the convergent eye margins. Supraantennal bristles two, reclinate, in a 
closely approximated pair ; next row above of four forming a line 
strongly curved downwards medially; the lateral ones well removed 
from the eye and the median ones farther from each other than from 
the lateral bristle ; upper frontal row straight spaced as in the lower 
row except that the lateral bristle is closer to the eye ; ocellar row as 
usual; no ocellar tubercle or distinct protuberance of any sort. Post¬ 
ocular cilia short and thickly placed. Antennae small, rounded, piceous, 
with distinctly dorsal pubescent arista somewhat longer than the head 
height. Palpi small, brownish honey-yellow, with five or six rather 
slender bristles apically below. Proboscis short, stout and thickly chitin- 
ized. Cheeks without any specially stout macrochætæ, but along the 
anterior edge to the base of the antennae is a closely placed row of 
stout bristles. Mesothorax long and slender for this genus, shining black 
and sparsely clothed with fine hair. One pair of dorsocentral macrochætæ 
and only two marginal scutellar bristles, although a second lateral pair 
is represented by a small bristly hair; lateral margin of mesonotum 
with several stout bristles. Pleurae piceous, subshining, entirely bare 
except for a few scattered fine hairs on the propleuræ above. Abdomen 
with opaque surface ; black on the first two segments, but beyond 
orange-yellow or orange red, more or less stained with piceous or 
black ; sides and apex black ; venter pale. Lateral margins of dorsal 
segments with scattering hairs and the apex with a few scattering long 
hairs. Legs rufous brown, the fore coxæ paler and the four posterior 
femora black. Fore legs distinctly thickened, especially the tarsi which 
have the metatarsus nearly half as long as the tibia and as long as 
the three following squarish tarsal joints; outer edge of the tibia with 
a closely set series of minute but very stout bristles. Middle and 
posterior legs slender, the posterior femora not over one fourth as 
broad as long; middle tibia with a pair of bristles on the posterior 
side at the basal third, the anterior of these set a little closer to the 
knee, and with a short preapical bristle in addition to a long apical 
spur. Posterior surface of the middle tibia beyond the bristles excavated 
to form a flat surface which is striate transversely by minute comb-like 
rows of microscopic bristles. Posterior tibia with a short bristle on the 
external side at the basal third and along the posterior edge with four 
equidistant bristles increasing in length apically, the third bristle set 
at about the middle of the tibia; apex with one long and two very 
short spurs as well as a small subapical bristle on the outer side. 
Wings hyaline, the veins weak piceous ; costa distinctly less than half 
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