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Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3: Zoology
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_Female._ Black, rather broad, with cinereous tomentum. Head white, with
white hairs behind and beneath, frontalia deep black, narrow, widening
towards the face, which is oblique, facialia with bristles along more
than one-third of the length from the frontalia, epistoma not prominent;
eyes pubescent, palpi ferruginous; antennae extending to the epistoma,
third joint cinereous, hardly widening from the base to the tip, which
is somewhat truncated, arista slender, very much longer than the third
joint; thorax with four indistinct black stripes; scutellum ferruginous
hindward; abdomen conical, not longer than the thorax, with three broad,
slightly interrupted, cinereous bands, second segment indistinctly
ferruginous on each side; legs stout; wings grey, slightly brownish in
front, veins black, testaceous towards the base, praebrachial vein
forming an obtuse angle at its flexure, hardly curved inward from thence
to its tip, discal transverse vein very slightly undulating, parted by
much less than its length from the border and from the flexure of the
praebrachial; alulae whitish. Length of the body 4-1/2 lines; of the wings
8 lines.
86. EURYGASTER DECIPIENS, n. s. _Foem._ Nigra, aureo-tomentosa, capite
antico argenteo frontalibus atris, antennis ferrugineis, thorace vittis
quatuor nigris, abdomine fulvo subtessellato vitta basali nigra, pedibus
fulvis, alis cinereis.
_Female._ Black, stout, with gilded tomentum. Head silvery white in
front and beneath, frontalia deep black, widening slightly towards the
upright face, the bristles on each side hardly extending to the
facialia, epistoma not prominent; eyes bare; antennae ferruginous,
extending to the epistoma, third joint linear, somewhat truncated at the
tip, more than four times the length of the second joint, arista
slender, much longer than the third joint; thorax with numerous long
bristles, with four slight black stripes; pectus cinereous; abdomen
tawny, conical, not longer than the thorax, with short stout bristles,
and with three broad, slightly gilded, somewhat interrupted bands, a
short black stripe at the base; legs tawny, stout, tibiae darker than the
femora, tarsi piceous; wings grey, somewhat darker in front, veins
black, praebrachial vein forming a right angle at its flexure, near which
it is much curved inward, discal transverse vein nearly straight, parted
by more than half its length from the border, and by a little less than
its length from the flexure of the praebrachial; alulae slightly
cinereous. Length of the body 4 lines; of the wings 7 lines.
87. EURYGASTER PHASIOIDES, n. s. _Mas._ Nigra, cano-tomentosa, capite
albo frontalibus atris, antennis, scutello, abdomine femoribusque
fulvis, abdomine fasciis duabus posticis albidis vittaque nigra, alis
cinereis basi albis, costa plagaque nigricantibus.
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