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Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3: Zoology
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_Male._ Dark green, very minutely punctured. Head black, whitish about
the eyes, ferruginous towards the epistoma; antennae piceous, reddish
towards the base; third joint linear, very long, arista bare; abdomen
linear, compressed, with a testaceous spot on each side before the
middle; legs black, femora tawny towards the tips, hind tarsi tawny at
the base; wings slightly greyish, blackish along the costa and at the
tips, and about the transverse veins; veins black, tawny at the base;
discal transverse vein straight, oblique, parted by about half its
length from the border, and by a little more than its length from the
praebrachial transverse; halteres white. Length of the body 4 lines; of
the wings 7 lines.
136. DACUS POMPILOIDES, n. s. _Mas._ Niger; capite albido, epistomate
ferrugineo; antennis piceis basi rufis, articulo tertio longo lineari;
abdomine nigro-cyaneo; pedibus piceis; alis subcinereis, striga costali
basali, fascia tenui postice abbreviata et triente apicali strigam
subcineream includente nigricantibus; halteribus albis.
_Male._ Black. Head with whitish tomentum, epistoma ferruginous,
prominent; antennae piceous, red at the base, third joint long, linear,
arista bare; abdomen linear, blackish blue, longer than the thorax; legs
piceous; wings slightly greyish, with a blackish costal streak extending
from the base, with a slender blackish band which is abbreviated
hindward, and with more than one-third of the apical part blackish and
including a slightly greyish streak; veins black, discal transverse vein
straight, oblique, parted by a little less than its length from the
border and by about its length from the praebrachial transverse;
halteres white. Length of the body 3-1/2 lines; of the wings 6 lines.
Gen. BREA, n. g.
Platystomae affinis. _Facies_ lata. _Antennae_ breves; articulus tertius
longiconicus; arista nuda. _Femora_ intermedia incrassata, denticulata.
Allied to _Platystoma_. Face broad; antennae short, third joint
elongate-conical; arista bare; middle femora incrassated, denticulated
beneath.
137. BREA DISCALIS, n. s. _Mas_. Nigra; capite testaceo apud oculos
albido, fronte ochracea; antennis piceis basi rufescentibus; thorace
vitta lata cana; abdomine fulvo, disco nigro cupreo; pedibus fulvis,
femoribus anticis apice tibiisque anticis basi nigris; alis sublimpidis,
fascia media lata postice abbreviata guttam limpidam subcostalem
includente lineaque transversa exteriore nigricantibus; halteribus
testaceis.
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