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Thorax dark rich brown with very small dull golden narrow- 
curved scales, and six spots of small, flat, silvery-white scales ; 
chaetae dark brown ; scutellum clothed with flat, silvery-white 
scales; metanotum dark brown • pleurae bright brown with pale 
puncta. 
Abdomen black > with basal lateral snowy-white spots and 
golden border-bristles ; venter mostly dark. 
Legs dark brown, venter of femora for the basal two-thirds 
pale creamy ; a snow-white spot at the apex of the femora and 
tibiae ; chaetae golden ; fore and mid ungues equal, uniserrate. 
Fig. 78. 
Wing of Aedimorphus punctithorax. $. nov. sp. 
Wings with the first fork-cell a little longer and narrower 
than the second fork-cell, its stem about half the length of the 
cell, its base nearly level with that of the latter; stem of the 
second fork-cell about two-thirds the length of the cell; posterior 
cross-vein not quite its own length distant from the mid. 
Length. —2*3 mm. 
£ . Palpi dark brown, hair-tufts dark on the last two seg¬ 
ments, the penultimate rathqr swollen and a little longer than 
the apical one ; antennae plumose, plume hairs brown. Fore 
