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dark at the tip, with black and pale scales scattered over it ; 
clypeus bright testaceous ; eyes dark, with a silvery sheen. 
Thorax fuscous, with a broad median row of narrow curved 
golden scales and a narrow lateral row of the same on each side, 
intervening spaces bare and showing as two median fuscous 
lines ; sides of the mesonotum paler, with short broad white 
scales which pass on to the dorsum posteriorly and flank the 
median golden-scaled line, also a median and two lateral rows of 
black bristles and numerous other dark bristles at the sides; 
scutellum testaceous, with scattered pale scales; metanotum 
testaceous, with purplish reflections; pleurae testaceous, with 
dense scattered grey scales. 
Abdomen dark brown, with numerous flat, dull, creamy- 
white scales, with pale dusky golden hairs above and below. 
Legs pale testaceous; the femora with only a few small 
dark scales except at the apices, which have a dense tuft of long 
black scales ; tibiae also with long outstanding black scales; 
metatarsus and first and third tarsal joints of the hind legs pale 
yellowish-white at the base, the apical parts being thickly scaled 
with dense black scales, the last joint scarcely showing any basal 
banding; in the fore and mid legs the banding is not so distinct, 
and the metatarsi are pale testaceous; the hind metatarsi are 
equal to about two-thirds of the length of the tibiae ; ungues 
large, equal, and with a distinct tooth. 
Wings slightly yellowish-brown with brown scales rather 
lono- in form ; the first sub-marginal cell short, its stem nearly 
equal to the length of the cell ; second posterior cell broader and 
shorter than the first sub-marginal cell, its stem slightly longer 
than the cell, its base a little nearer the apex of the wing than 
that of the first sub-marginal cell; posterior cross-vein about 
half its length distant from the mid cross-vein ; fringe brown. 
Halteres pale ochraceous, with a deep fuscous knob. 
( £ . In the £ it is said that the abdomen is darker than 
in the 9 and with dense woolly hairs on either side.) 
Length of 9 •—$ to 9 mm. 
Habitat. —Texas (Howard) ; Shreveport, U.S.A. (Mally) ; 
Carolina (Fabricius); Georgia (Wiedemann and Walker) ; 
Atlantic Coast (Osten-Sacken) ; Honduras (Walker); Argentina 
(Arribalzaga) and Brazil (Dr. Lutz). The following American 
localities are also given by Howard : Dorchester, Massachusetts ; 
Washington (Cluttenden); Westfield, N.J. (Johnson); Illinois 
(Mason); Kentucky; Lincoln, Nebraska (Bruner) ; Los Angelos, 
