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golden hairs, the apical segment with dense golden-brown hairs; 
venter entirely yellowish-white, greatly contrasted with the 
dorsum. 
Legs black; coxae, bases and venter of the femora greyish- 
white, a distinct knee spot to the hind legs and an indistinct one 
to the fore and mid legs; hind metatarsi about the same length as 
the hind tibiae ; apex of the hind tibiae and bases of the metatarsi 
with rather dense golden hair-like scales ; the femora and tibiae 
are ochraceous in ground colour, the dark appearance being due 
entirely to dark scales ; the metatarsi and tarsi are quite black, 
but in certain lights the whole legs have a bronzy tinge ; ungues 
equal and simple. 
Wings with the veins very clearly defined and sparsely 
clothed with scales, the middle scales being rather long and thin 
and close together, the lateral ones curved, almost like hairs ; 
first sub-marginal cell a little longer and slightly narrower than 
the second posterior cell, its base nearly level with the junction 
of the sub-costal and costal, considerably longer than its stem, but 
varying from three and a half to under three times the length of 
the stem, its base either a little nearer to or a little further from 
the base of the wing than that of the second posterior cell; 
second posterior cell two and a half to three times as long as its 
stem, which may be either a little shorter or longer than the 
stem of the first sub-marginal; posterior cross-vein longer than 
the mid cross-vein, distant from it either its own length or just 
under or over its own length, sometimes as much as one and a 
half times its own length distant. 
Halteres with pale ochraceous stem and slightly fuscous 
knob. 
Length .— 5*5 to 6 mm. 
$. Head with pale curved scales in the middle, with dull 
white flat ones at the sides, which become dirty ochraceous as 
they pass on to the crown, with broad and narrow upright 
forked scales, dark brown and dark ochraceous in colour, a white 
border round the eyes ; palpi black, with a narrow indistinct 
pale band at the base of the last three joints, pointed, hair-tufts 
short scanty and dark brown; the penultimate joint about one- 
third shorter than the apical joint, the antepenultimate joint 
longer than the two preceding together ; proboscis black, shorter 
than the palpi ; antennae with basal joint bright deep testaceous, 
banded grey and black, verticillate hairs, deep brown, flaxen at 
the base, last two joints with pale pubescence. 
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