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curved black scales and black border-bristles ; metanotum black • 
pleurae ochreous. 
Abdomen ochreous with deep brown scales, rather scanty 
basally, giving a false banded appearance, with basal lateral areas 
of pale scales ; border-bristles pale. 
Legs brown to almost black ; coxae and under side of femora 
pale; apex of femora and tibiae white, the remaining segments 
with apical and basal pale creamy bands, last hind tarsal with all 
pale scales, in the other legs pale in certain lights. 
Wings with the first fork-cell very little longer and narrower 
than the second, its stem nearly as long as the cell; stem of the 
second fork-cell not quite as long as the cell; posterior cross-vein 
longer than the mid, rather more than its own length distant 
from it; scales large and brown. 
Length .—2 * 5 mm. 
$ . Head small, triangular in outline, clothed with small flat 
dull ochreous scales behind and dull brown darker ones in front, 
some large black upright forked-scales behind ; antennae long, 
brown, basal segment shiny reddish-brown with a long bristle, 
second segment long, longer than the next three, pale at its base, 
hairs moderate (not plumose) ; proboscis deep brown, long and 
thin, swollen apically, nearly as long as the whole body, clypeus 
small, triangular, dark brown, palpi very short, thick and 
conical. 
Thorax deep shiny brown, with brown chaetae (denuded), 
showing some narrow-curved bronzy-brown scales; scutellum 
black with narrow-curved bronzy-brown scales, with deep brown 
border-bristles, four to the mid lobe ; metanotum deep brown, 
paler in the middle, pleurae pale ochreous with an irregular dark 
central patch. 
Abdomen deep brown, the segments with basal creamy bands 
which are contracted in the middle and which spread out laterally 
to form basal pale lateral spots, posterior border-bristles pale 
golden; venter banded with dull white, black and ochreous 
scales, the latter apical, the black colour median. 
Legs brown, base and under side of femora yellowish, knee spots 
dull white, the joints of the tibiae and tarsi with narrow yellow 
bands involving both sides of the joints. 
Wings with a single row of small spatulate median vein- 
scales and some large narrowly pyriform lateral vein-scales ; 
costa spinose, fork-cells of nearly equal length, the first sub¬ 
marginal a little narrower than the second posterior, its stem 
