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Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 4: Zoology
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_Female._ Cinereous, beset with numerous long stout black bristles;
head white, clothed behind and beneath with white hairs; frontalia deep
black, slightly widening towards the face, with stout bristles along
each side; facialia without bristles except by the epistoma, which is
not prominent; eyes bare; proboscis and palpi tawny; antennæ nearly
reaching the epistoma; 3rd joint slightly broader towards the tip, which
is rounded, about four times the length of the 2nd; arista stout at
the base, very much longer than the 3rd joint; thorax with four black
stripes; abdomen elongate-elliptical, its bristles stouter than those of
the thorax; a cinereous band along the fore-border of each segment; lips
black, stout, bristly; wings lurid, narrow, dark brown on the exterior
half, cinereous along the hind border; veins tawny, black exteriorly;
præbrachial vein extending rather beyond the slightly acute angle
which it forms at its flexure, much curved inward from thence to its
tip; discal transverse vein undulating, parted by rather less than its
length from the border and from the flexure of the præbrachial; alulæ
cinereous; halteres testaceous. Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings
12 lines.
101. MASICERA HORRENS, n. s. _Foem._ Albido-cinerea valde setosa,
capite albo, facie obliqua, oculis pubescentibus, thorace vittis
quatuor nigris, abdomine subfusiformi spinoso fasciis tribus latis
subinterruptis albidis, alis cinereis basi et apud costam subfuscis,
alulis albido-cinereis.
_Female._ Whitish cinereous, thickly beset with long stout black
bristles; head white, clothed behind and beneath with white hairs;
frontalia deep black, hardly widening towards the face, with bristles
along each side and beyond it; face oblique; facialia with bristles
along nearly two-thirds of the length; epistoma not prominent; eyes
pubescent; palpi black, rather long; antennæ nearly reaching the
epistoma; 3rd joint linear, rounded at the tip, full four times the
length of the 2nd; arista very much longer than the 3rd joint, stout
for more than one-third of its length; thorax with four black stripes;
abdomen nearly fusiform, more spinose than bristly, with three broad
slightly interrupted whitish bands on the fore borders of the segments;
legs black, stout, bristly; wings grey, slightly brown at the base
and along the costa; veins black; præbrachial vein forming a somewhat
rounded right angle at its flexure, near which it is much curved inward
and is thence straight to its tip; discal transverse vein undulating,
parted by about its length from the border and by much less than its
length from the flexure of the præbrachial; alulæ whitish cinereous.
Length of the body 7 lines; of the wings 12 lines.
102. MASICERA IMMERSA, n. s. _Foem._ Albido-cinerea, capite argenteo,
oculis nudis, palpis, antennis pedibusque nigris, thorace lineis quatuor
nigris, abdomine nigro fasciis tribus latis interruptis cinereis, alis
cinereis, alulis albido-cinereis albo marginatis.
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