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chestnut-brown eyes silvery ; antennae brown, basal joint large, 
pale brown, arising from a dark area; first and second joints 
with apical grey scales; palpi brown, with some yellowish scales, 
white at the apex, with moderately long dark bristles; proboscis 
black at the tip and slightly darker at the base, the middle with 
yellowish scales thickly spread over the brown surface. 
Thorax very dark brown, with long brown hairs and with 
deep coppery-brown curved scales and a few black bristles; four 
round patches of creamy scales and a few of the same colour in 
front of the scutellum ; the latter with pale curved scales and 
deep brown border-bristles; metanotum deep brown; pleurae 
with patches of grey scales. 
Abdomen black, the first segment with a few apical creamy 
scales and long yellowish-brown hairs,; second segment with a 
distinct creamy patch of apical scales forming a triangle with 
its base parallel with the apical border ; next four segments with 
the creamy patches of scales broken in the middle, on the' fourth 
and fifth segments the patches forming two quite separate lateral 
spots; last segment mostly black; ventrally covered with pale 
yellow and brown scales with a few black marks. 
Wings with the veins covered with black and white scales ; 
a distinctive character is that the base of the third longitudinal 
where it meets the cross-veins forms a very small deep black 
spot. Halteres pale testaceous. 
Legs banded and speckled with yellow scales; fore femora 
black, with a pale ring near the apex and with scattered yellow 
scales, pale underneath ; knee white; tibiae black, spotted with 
yellow scales; metatarsus with a basal and median band of 
yellow; first two tarsi basally white banded, remainder black ; 
in the mid legs the markings are the same, but there is a trace of 
banding on the third tarsus, and the femora are whitish beneath 
except at the apex; in the hind legs all the tarsal joints are 
basally banded and the ring of the femora is more distinct, whilst 
ventrally they are like those of the mid legs. Mid and hind 
ungues equal and simple. 
Length. —5 • 5 mm. 
Habitat. —Jamaica (Grabham) (8. 2. 1900). 
Time of capture. —-December. 
Observations. —A very distinct species, easily recognised by 
the black speck on the wing, the curious banding and mottling 
of the legs and the adornment of the abdomen. 
It was bred by Dr. Grabham from larvae collected along 
Spanish Hoad, Kingston. 
