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legs with the bands still more distinct and broader, and with 
a broad, pale, median metatarsal band; nngues equal and 
simple. 
Wings with the veins densely clothed with rather broad, 
elongated oval, brown scales and with a few scattered yellow 
ones, especially along the costal region; no long, thin, lateral 
scales * first sub-marginal cell a little longer and narrower than 
the second posterior cell, stem of the former about two-thirds 
of the length of the cell; of the latter also about the same 
relative length ; posterior cross-vein more than two and a half 
times its own length distant from the mid cross-vein; halteres 
pale ochraceous. 
Length .—7 to 10 mm. 
$ . Head dark brown, with a narrow pale border to the 
eyes, pale curved scales and black upright forked ones behind 
and similar ochraceous ones in the middle (partly denuded); 
proboscis covered with ochraceous-brown scales in the middle, 
black at the apex, and dark scaled basally ; palpi ochraceous- 
brown, black at the apices, with black hair-tufts, and a few 
patches of dark scales nearer the base; antennae banded with 
dense brown plumes. 
Thorax, when denuded, chestnut-brown, with scattered pale 
golden scales, showing a thin, median, dark line and broader 
lateral pale longitudinal lines ; scutellum with only a single row of 
posterior median bristles; metanotum chestnut-brown; pleurae 
chestnut-brown, with a few dark patches and white scales and 
pale hairs, which are particularly thick on the prothoracic 
lobes. 
Abdomen steely-black, covered with deep dusky brownish- 
black scales, each segment rather ochraceous at the base, and 
with a few white scales, densely clothed with long golden-brown 
hairs. 
Legs ochraceous, with scattered ochraceous, white and dark 
scales on the femora and tibiae, the latter dark towards the 
apices; metatarsi with a pale band in the middle and one at 
the base, tarsi all broadly basally pale-yellow banded, the third 
joint small, and with only a faint trace of basal banding, in 
the hind legs the basal banding is distinct on all the joints; 
ungues of the fore and mid legs unequal, the larger one with 
two teeth. 
Wings with the veins covered with rather broad scales, 
mostly purplish-brown, but some white; first sub-marginal cell 
