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Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 4: Zoology
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_Female._ Cinereous, with black bristles; head silvery white in front
and behind, clothed behind and beneath with white hairs; frontalia
deep black, hardly widening towards the epistoma, with a few black
bristles along each side and beyond; facialia without bristles;
epistoma not prominent; eyes pubescent; palpi tawny, clavate; antennæ
piceous, almost reaching the epistoma; 3rd joint linear, slightly
rounded at the tip, nearly thrice the length of the 2nd; arista
slender, very much longer than the 3rd joint; thorax with four black
lines; abdomen black, conical, a little broader and longer than the
thorax, with three broad whitish-cinereous bands, somewhat spinose
towards the tip; legs black, hardly bristly; wings greyish, with a
lurid tinge at the base and along part of the costa; veins black,
tawny towards the base; præbrachial vein forming a rounded and obtuse
angle at its flexure, nearly straight from thence to its tip; discal
transverse vein hardly undulating, parted by little more than half
its length from the border, and by much less than its length from the
flexure of the præbrachial; alulæ cinereous; halteres tawny. Length of
the body 4-1/2 lines; of the wings 8 lines.
105. EURYGASTER REMITTENS, n. s. _Foem._ Cinerea, capite albo, oculis
pubescentibus, palpis, antennis pedibusque nigris, thorace lineis
quatuor nigris, scutello rufo, abdomine nigro fasciis cinereis fere
interruptis, segmenti 2^{i} lateribus rufescentibus, alis cinereis basi
fuscescentibus, alulis albidis.
_Female._ Cinereous, slightly bristly; head white, clothed behind and
beneath with white hairs; frontalia deep black, widening towards the
face, with a row of bristles along each side and beyond; facialia
without bristles; epistoma not prominent; eyes pubescent; palpi
black, short; antennæ almost reaching the epistoma; 3rd joint slightly
widening towards the tip, which is rounded; arista slender, very much
longer than the 3rd joint; thorax with four black lines; scutellum
red, black at the base; abdomen black, conical, somewhat pilose at the
tip, hardly broader or longer than the thorax, with cinereous nearly
interrupted bands; 2nd segment reddish on each side; legs black,
slightly bristly; wings grey, brownish at the base; veins black;
præbrachial vein forming a slightly obtuse angle at its flexure, from
whence it is hardly curved inward to its tip; discal transverse vein
very slightly undulating, parted by a little more than half its length
from the border, and by about half its length from the flexure of the
præbrachial; alulæ whitish. Length of the body 5 lines; of the wings 8
lines.
106. EURYGASTER APTA, n. s. _Foem._ Cinerea, capite albo, oculis
nudis, palpis, antennis, pedibusque nigris, thorace vittis quatuor
indistinctis, abdominis vitta dorsali et segmentorum marginibus
posticis nigris, alis cinereis apud costam fuscescentibus, alulis
albido-cinereis.
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