Genus Orthopodomyia. 471 
segment with outstanding creamy scales; proboscis black with 
a white hand on the apical half, a small white;-spot nearer the 
base, another before the labella 
and apex white; palpi about one- 
half the length of the proboscis, 
with black scales and one white 
median hand and white apex. 
Thorax dark brown clothed 
with rather large dull golden and 
brown scales, the former mainly 
in front, with two patches of 
brown scales, and behind a 
median area, giving a somewhat 
death’s head look, behind mostly 
dark scales, but a small dull 
golden-scaled area behind the cen¬ 
tral dark spot, and some pale 
golden scales on each side of the 
bare space before the scutellum, 
and a few others at the sides and 
forming a small indistinct spot 
near the base of the wings ; chae- 
tae large and black • scutellum 
dark brown with large pale curved 
scales ; metanotum dark brown ; 
pleurae deep brown with patches 
of flat yellow and pale creamy scales and a patch of grey 
narrow-curved ones. 
Abdomen black, the fourth segment with basal and apical 
white lateral patches, fifth the same, sixth and seventh with 
basal white bands and two median white spots ; eighth white 
basally ; border-bristles dusky brown. All the segments show 
lateral white spots. 
Legs brown, femora and tibiae speckled, the former with a pale 
spot near apex, the latter with one near the base, to some extent 
showing in the hind legs ; tarsi with apical and basal creamy 
white bands; in the hind tarsi, the second nearly all white, 
the third and fourth all white. Ungues all equal and simple. 
Wings black scaled, spotted with white as follows :—five on 
the costa, three large and uniform towards apex, two smaller at 
base, the apical three spread evenly on to the sub-costal and 
second vein, and the third on to the end of the third vein as well 
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Orthopodomyia maculipes. $. n. sp. 
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