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Thorax bright reddish-brown, shiny, clothed with golden- 
yellow curved scales and golden-yellow chaetae ; scutellum simi¬ 
larly adorned, with two large golden posterior border-bristles on 
each side of the mid lobe and two very small ones between, 
metanotum golden-yellow ; pleurae yellow and brown with two 
patches of silvery-white flat scales. 
Abdomen clothed with brown and metallic violet scales, the 
fourth segment with a basal yellow scaled band, the next with a 
more prominent one, and the apical segments with many yellow 
scales, hairs golden. 
Legs ochreous, clothed with brown scales which darken toward 
the end, base and under side of femora with ochreous scales, in 
some lights the leg scales show violet reflections ; chaetae brown, 
ungues dark, equal and simple. 
Wings with brownish scales ; fork-cells rather short; the first 
sub-marginal a little longer and narrower than the second 
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Fig. 192. 
Wing of Chrysoconops pygmcieus. 9- Theobald. 
posterior, its base a little nearer the apex of the wing than that 
of the latter, its stem nearly two-thirds the length of the cell, 
stem of the second posterior a little more than half the length of 
the cell, posterior cross-vein not quite twice its own length distant 
from mid. Halteres pale yellow. 
Length .—4 mm. 
£ . Head ochreous-brown with small narrow-curved golden 
scales and rich golden-brown upright forked scales and golden 
chaetae; palpi and proboscis black, the apical segment a little 
more than half the length of the penultimate, bluntly acuminate, 
long dark hairs on the last two segments. Antennae brown with 
white inter nodes and dark brown plume hairs. 
Thorax shiny bright brown with narrow-curved golden scales 
and golden chaetae. 
Abdomen ochreous when pointed from the light, dark when 
