Genus Hispidimyia. 247 
short golden chaetae in front between the eyes and two long 
black chaetae ; there is a median parting of the flat scales. 
Clypeus apparently very small ; proboscis ochreous with some 
dark scales above, dark at the apex, which is slightly swollen; 
palpi a little longer than the proboscis, clavate and blunt at the 
apices, ochreous below, some dark scales above, clavate area 
black with violet reflections ; clavate area with black chaetae 
below, two large black apical chaetae and some smaller ones. 
Antennae with the segments thick and short, except the last 
two, which are long, thin and pilose, rest with dense flaxen brown 
plume hairs ; basal segment very large, globular and dark. 
Thorax rich ochreous brown, clothed with black narrow-curved 
scales, showing bronzy metallic reflections, leaving two median 
bare parallel lines ; bare space in front of the scutellum, pale 
especially at the sides, the area looking like a continuation of the 
two bare pale median lines; numerous black, backwardly curved 
chaetae, a patch of small golden ones before the base of the wing ; 
scutellum shiny, with pale reflections like the bare space before it, 
clothed with narrow-curved bronzy scales; six posterior border- 
bristles, three on each side of the mid lobe • metanotum ochreous 
brown, darker in the middle ; prothoracic lobes ochreous with 
numerous long curved brown chaetae with bright golden reflec¬ 
tions ; pleurae pale ochreous with grey reflections, some dusky 
and white semi-transparent flat scales. 
Abdomen clothed with black scales with dull violet reflections, 
each segment with large basal lateral yellowish spots, which on 
some of the segments extend to their apical borders, last segment 
with many ochreous scales ; posterior border-bristles golden, dense 
lateral and apical bristles brown Y^h golden reflections ; venter 
densely hairy. 
