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Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3: Zoology
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_Female._ Black, with stout bristles. Head white, with white hairs
beneath, frontalia deep black, linear, face oblique, facialia without
bristles, epistoma not prominent; eyes bare; antennae almost reaching the
epistoma, third joint cinereous, linear, rather broad, almost truncated
at the tip, about four times the length of the second, arista slender,
very much longer than the third joint; thorax and pectus with cinereous
tomentum, the former with four slender black stripes; abdomen shining,
subelliptical, a little longer than the thorax, with a widely
interrupted cinereous band on the fore border of each segment; legs
stout; wings cinereous; veins black; praebrachial vein forming a very
obtuse angle at its flexure, from whence it is straight to its tip,
discal transverse vein almost straight, parted by hardly less than its
length from the border, and by very much more than its length from the
flexure of the praebrachial; alulae white. Length of the body 3-1/2 lines;
of the wings 6 lines.
84. MASICERA GUTTATA, n. s. _Foem._ Nigra, capite albo, frontalibus
atris, thoracis vittis tribus pectoreque cinereis, abdomine guttis
lateralibus albis, alis cinereis.
_Female._ Black, with short slight bristles. Head white, frontalia deep
black, widening slightly towards the epistoma, face oblique, facialia
without bristles, epistoma not prominent; antennae reaching the epistoma,
third joint linear, slightly truncated at the tip, full four times the
length of the second, arista slender; thorax with three cinereous
stripes; pectus cinereous; abdomen elongate-oval, a little longer than
the thorax, a row of white dots along each side on the fore borders of
the segments; wings cinereous, a little darker along the costa towards
the base, veins black, praebrachial vein forming a very obtuse angle at
its flexure, from whence it is almost straight to its tips; discal
transverse vein straight, parted by more than its length from the border
and by nearly twice its length from the flexure of the praebrachial;
alulae whitish. Length of the body 2-1/2 lines; of the wings 4 lines.
Gen. EURYGASTER, _Macq._
85. EURYGASTER TENTANS, n. s. _Foem._ Nigra, latiuscula, cinereo
tomentosa, capite albo, frontalibus atris, thorace vittis quatuor
nigris, scutelli margine postico ferrugineo, abdomine subtessellato,
alis cinereis apud costam subfuscis.
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