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Abdomen steely in places, the apical segment bright testa¬ 
ceous ; covered with deep purplish-brown scales showing brilliant 
purple and mauve reflections; apex densely bristly ; laterally 
are creamy-white to yellow scales, forming more or less triangular 
patches, the bases of the triangles being on the apical borders of 
the segments; venter ochraceous, with creamy-yellow and pale 
creamy scales. 
Legs brown, covered with deep brown scales, which show 
brilliant purple and blue reflections, and in places a dull ochra¬ 
ceous tint; on the apices of the joints and along the tibiae are 
short black spines ; mid legs with all four tarsi white above; 
hind legs densely scaly, the last two tarsi pure white; tibiae 
slightly pale at the base; hind metatarsi as long as the tibiae; 
ungues small, equal and simple. 
Wings dusky, the veins very densely covered with rather broad 
scales, like Taeniorhynchus; fork-cells long, the first sub-marginal 
considerably longer and narrower than the second posterior cell, 
its base nearer the base of the wing than that of the latter ; stem 
of the first sub-marginal rather short, considerably less than 
than half the length of the cell; mid cross-vein a little nearer ( 
the apex of the wing than the supernumerary cross-vein ; posterior 
cross-vein on a line with the mid; the sub-costal joins the costal ( 
a little past the level of the cross-veins; the second longitudinal 
vein carried nearly to the base of the wing; the anal cell is very 
large. 
Halteres with an ochraceous stem and fuscous knob, and 
numerous black scales on it, which pass down the stem. 
Length .—7 to 8 mm. 
£. Yery similar to the 9 1 antennae banded brown and \ 
white, with two rows of verticillate hairs, the larger dense, long 
