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A more or less distinct median line running through to the dark 
bare space before the scutellum, traces of dark submedian lines,, 
two large dark spots in front, one below and posterior to the 
other, another dark area about base of wing, and a long, straight, 
dark broad line above ; clothed with golden curved hairs, except 
for a few scattered pale narrow-curved scales in front, which are 
long where they project as a tuft over the head ; prothoracic 
lobes clothed with dense, black, long outstanding scales, forming 
lateral tufts ; scutellum pale, dark in the middle with golden 
hair-like curved scales ; border-bristles black ; metanotum black ; 
pleurae dark brown. 
Abdomen deep brown with dark brown hairs, apical segment 
with bright golden chaetae and some small golden scales. 
Legs black, femora, tibiae and metatarsi spotted with white, 
the tarsi with apical and basal narrow pale banding, apex of hind 
Fig. 11. 
Wing of Neomyzomyia elegans . James. ?. 
tibiae broadly snowy white, which with basal snowy band of the 
metatarsi forms a broad prominent band. 
Wings with Myzorhynchus -like scales. The outer costal border 
with four rather large and two or three small basal yellowish- 
white spots, the apical three uniform in size, the apical one 
spreads evenly on to the upper branch of second long vein, the 
second on to the first long vein, the third is larger on the first 
long vein and there are on it two small pale areas between the 
second and third. The fourth is even on the first, but there is a 
pale spot between third and fourth ; two between fourth and 
fifth and then a long pale patch on the first long vein, rest of 
veins with alternate dark and light areas, the fourth almost all 
dark except on its branches ; fringe with rather obscure pale 
spots at junction of the veins with it up to the outer branch 
of the fifth, not beyond; the' termination of the third vein is 
