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and black bristles; clypeus brown; proboscis black. Frontal 
tubercle (fig. 178, e) ochraceous. 
Thorax bright brown (much denuded), with apparently brown 
narrow-curved scales ; prothoracic lobes covered with flat 

Fig. 178. 
Runchomyia frontosa. Q.. D. Sp. . 
a,'Head ; e, frontal process ; ere basal lobelof antennae; c, palp of @ ; 
d, 2 ungues. 
ochraceous scales; scutellum ochraceous, with flat brown scales 
with blue reflections; four border-bristles to the mid lobe ; 
metanotum brown, with six (?) bristles on its apical half; pleurae 
bright ochraceous, with silvery scales. 
Abdomen ochraceous when denuded, covered with black scales 
with deep violet reflections, border-bristles black, very short ; 
apical segment bristly. 
Legs ochraceous, covered with deep brown scales; ungues 
equal, simple, rather straight (d). 
Wings with the veins covered with large broad brown scales 
and some long ones, the costa black, with spiny scales ; fork-cells 
long, the first sub-marginal a little narrower and much longer 
than the second posterior cell, its base a little nearer the base 
of the wing, its stem more than one-third the length of the cell ; 
stem of the second posterior more than half the length of the 
cell ; the second long vein carried a little way past the marginal 
