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coxae pallid; femora yellowish at the base and underneath. 
Ungues of the female equal and simple. 
9 . Head blackish-brown, with greyish flat curved scales, 
somewhat creamy coloured towards the front, with scattered 
brown forked upright scales ; antennae bright brown, basal joint 
yellowish, base of the second joint the same, four teen-jointed, 
second joint very long; palpi covered with chocolate-brown 
scales ; clypeus bright chestnut-brown ; proboscis blackish-brown, 
darkened and expanding towards the tip, paler at the base; 
eyes deep purplish-black. 
Thorax black, brown towards the scutellum in some 
specimens, with scattered curved flat bronzy-black scales, with 
deep chestnut-brown to black bristles; two rows of bristles 
down the dorsum of the mesonotum ; scutellum brown, with dark 
scales and chestnut-brown to black bristles; metanotum deep 
purplish-black; pleurae chestnut-brown. 
Abdomen steely-black, entirely covered with umber-brown 
and dark brown scales, the posterior borders of the segments 
with small golden-brown bristles; venter brown, thickly clothed 
with paler scales. When held in some lights the abdomen has 
an ochraceous tinge in parts. 
Legs covered with brown scales, which give them bronzy- 
yellow reflections in some lights ; coxae pale, with a row of long 
bristles above each ; femora beneath deep yellowish-brown; hind 
metatarsi a little shorter than the hind tibiae. Ungues equal 
and simple, fore and mid rather long, hind small. 
Wings with brown scales, those on the second long vein and 
its fork clavate, those on the remainder rather more truncated 
and with lateral long club-shaped ones in addition, except on the 
stem of the fourth and base of the fifth 
veins ; first sub-marginal cell longer but 
about the same width as the second 
posterior cell, the cell two and a half 
times the length of the stem, its base 
nearer the base of wing than that of 
the second posterior cell; stem of the 
second posterior cell much longer than that of the former cell, 
about two-thirds the length of the cell; posterior cross-vein 
longer than the mid cross-vein, about one and a fourth times its 
own length distant from it. 
Halteres with deep ochraceous stem and blackish knob. 
Length .—3 -5 to 4*2 mm. 
Fig. 258. 
Wing of Deinocerites cancer ( 9 
(X. 9.) 
