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Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3: Zoology
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_Male_. Black. Head testaceous, whitish about the eyes, front
ochraceous; antennae piceous, reddish at the base; thorax with a broad
hoary stripe; abdomen tawny, with a blackish cupreous disk; legs tawny,
fore femora at the tips and fore tibiae at the base black; wings nearly
limpid, with a broad middle blackish band, which is abbreviated hindward
and includes a limpid dot by the costa, and has beyond it a blackish
transverse line; veins black, testaceous towards the base; discal
transverse vein straight, upright, parted by half its length from the
border, and by much more than its length from the praebrachial
transverse; halteres testaceous. Length of the body 4 lines; of the
wings 7 lines.
138. BREA CONTRARIA, n. s. _Mas et Foem._ Nigra; capite fulvo apud
oculos albido, fronte ochracea; antennis rufescentibus; thorace vitta
cana; abdomine purpureo apice cyaneo; pedibus nigris, femoribus anticis
tarsisque testaceis; alis sublimpidis, fascia lata media postice
abbreviata, guttis interioribus lineaque transversa exteriore
nigricantibus.
_Male and Female._ Black. Head tawny, whitish about the eyes; antennae
reddish; thorax with a hoary stripe; sides and pectus also hoary;
abdomen purple, blue towards the tip; legs black; tarsi and fore femora
testaceous; wings nearly limpid, with a broad blackish middle band which
is abbreviated hindward, with some interior blackish dots, and with an
exterior transverse blackish line; veins black; discal transverse vein
straight, parted by less than half its length from the border, and by
less than its length from the praebrachial transverse; halteres black.
Length of the body 3--3-1/2 lines; of the wings 6-7 lines.
Gen. ADRAMA, n. g.
_Mas. Corpus_ longiusculum. _Caput_ thorace vix latius, setis duabus
posticis erectis. _Antennae_ sat longae; articulus tertius linearis,
apice conicus; arista pubescens. _Abdomen_ sublineare, thorace longius
et angustius. _Pedes_ mediocres; femora posteriora spinis minutis
armata. _Alae_ sat longae.
_Male._ Body rather long. Head transverse, hardly broader than the
thorax, with two erect setae on the hind part of the vertex; face
vertical; epistoma slightly prominent. Antennae nearly reaching the
epistoma; third joint long, linear, conical at the tip; arista
pubescent. Abdomen almost linear, longer and narrower than the thorax.
Legs moderately long and slender; posterior femora with minute spines
beneath. Wings rather long; discal transverse vein straight, upright,
parted by hardly half its length from the border, and by rather more
than its length from the praebrachial transverse.
139. ADRAMA SELECTA, n. s. _Mas._ Testacea; capite guttis tribus nigris;
thorace disco antico vittisque duabus posterioribus nigris; tibiis
tarsisque anticis piceis, tibiis posticis subpiceis; alis
subfuscescentibus, fascia lata limpida nigricante marginata postice
abbreviata.
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