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the scutellum ; the pale scales are rather broader than the golden- 
brown ones ; scutellum deep brown, with irregularly disposed 
creamy white narrow-curved scales ; pleurae brown, with flat white 
scales ; metanotum pale brown, with a median deep brown line. 
Abdomen deep brown, with almost black scales, each segment 
with a basal white band, those on the fifth and sixth spreading 
out laterally and contracted in the middle, apex of the sixth 
with a median creamy scaled patch, the seventh with many pale 
scales ; basal segment pale brown at the sides, with a dark 
median patch and white median scales ; venter entirely covered 
with creamy scales 
Legs with the coxae ochraceous, with grey scales; femora 
ochraceous, mottled with black scales, pale beneath ; tibiae the 
same, only with more dark scales towards the apex, extreme apex 
with a pale band ; metatarsi and tarsi with prominent pale basal 
and apical bands, the last joint of the hind legs dull white ; 
ungues all equal and uniserrated. 
Wings with the veins with brown and grey scales, giving a 
mottled appearance ; scales both broad, with the free edge crenu- 
late and narrow and straight, the latter as lateral ones on the 
apical portions of the veins; first sub-marginal cell longer and 
narrower than the second posterior cell, its base very slightly 
nearer the apex of the wing than the base of the second posterior 

Fig. 133. 
Wing of Acartomyia Zammitii. n. sp. (2). 
cell, its stem rather more than half the length of the cell ; stem 
of the second posterior cell about two-thirds the length of the 
cell; posterior cross-vein slightly more than its own length 
distant from the mid, the mid slightly longer than the super- 
numerary. Halteres with ochraceous stem, and slightly fuscous 
knob covered with grey scales. 
Length. 4 mm. 
g. Palpi straw-coloured, the last two joints swollen and 
brown scaled, the apical one clavate, the two apical segments 
have basal white bands, the penultimate joint with many white 
