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scaled. Last two joints very short, dark brown, with¬ 
out long hairs. Eyes in life bright bronzy green. 
Mesonotum rather dirty yellowish, with a med- 
ian brown stripe on the front two-thirds, and a pair 
of parallel brown stripes on the posterior two-thirds, 
rather sparsely clothed with small narrow curved 
pale yellow scales. Thoracic bristles numerous, long 
and black. Scutellum very distinctly three-lobed, the 
bristles usually 4-6.4- 
Pleurae yellowy a patch of yellow scales on the 
lower posterior part of the mes-episternum, and a 
few on the upper part. Pronotum with one or two 
yellow scales, pro-epimeron bare. 3 or 4 pro-epimeral 
bristles, about 5 mes-episternal bristles. One long and 
strong lower mes-epimeral bristle. Coxae yellow , with 
a few yellow scales on the outer side. Legs dark brown 
above, the bases of the femora rather paler, and 
yellow scaled jbelow; knee joints inconspicuously pale. 
First joint of hind tarsi about six-sevenths as long as 
hind tibiae. 
Claws rather conspicuously covered with minute 
hairs; on the anterior and middle legs, one daw with 
a large blunt tooth about half-way, the other with a 
small curved pointed tooth near the base, on the hind 
legs the claws are simple. Small pulvillli present. 
Wings with the stalk of the upper fork cell about 
equal to the fork. 
M-Cu c-v separated from R-M c-v by about one 
and a half times the length of the former. 
Abdomen with the four basal segments compres¬ 
sed, clothed with dark chestnut brown scales, with 
a few pale brown scales on the extreme posterior 
