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dark brown on clavate area, which is spiny below, apex spiny; 
antennae flaxen-brown. Thorax rich brown with two median 
pale parallel shiny lines, which seem to continue around the bare 
space before the scutellum, a darkened area on each side of the 
parallel lines in front; pleurae pale ochreous. Abdomen deep 
brown with basal lateral yellow spots which form almost a 
continuous line on each side, densely hairy. Legs unhanded, 
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Hispidimyia hispida. cf • u. sp. Head. 
deep brown, except base and under side of femora, with brassy 
reflections ; tibiae spinose. Wings with scanty brown scales. 
£ . Head clothed with flat creamy-white scales with ochreous 
and iridescent reflections, a small area near the nape of narrow- 
curved golden scales, a larger area of black upright forked scales 
and some almost golden along the nape ; four long black chaetae 
on each side on the ocular border projecting inwards, a few small 
