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Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 4: Zoology
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_Female._ Cinereous, with few bristles; head white; frontalia black,
narrow, linear, with a row of bristles along each side and beyond;
facialia without bristles; epistoma not prominent; eyes bare; palpi
black; antennæ almost reaching the epistoma; 3rd joint linear, rounded
at the tip, about four times the length of the 2nd; arista slender,
very much longer than the 4th joint; thorax with four indistinct black
stripes; abdomen conical, especially setose towards the tip, very
little longer than the thorax; 1st segment, hind borders of the other
segments and dorsal stripe black; legs black; wings grey, brownish
along the costa; veins black; præbrachial vein forming an obtuse angle
at its flexure, hardly curved inward from thence to its tip; discal
transverse vein slightly undulating, parted by much less than its
length from the border, and by a little less than its length from the
flexure of the præbrachial; alulæ whitish cinereous. Length of the
body 4 lines; of the wings 7 lines.
107. EURYGASTER CONGLOMERATA, n. s. _Foem._ Cinereo-nigra, capite
albo, oculis pubescentibus, palpis, antennis pedibusque nigris,
thorace lineis quatuor anticis nigris, thorace postico abdomineque
anthracinis, tibiis posticis subfimbriatis, alis cinereis, alulis
testaceo-albis.
_Female._ Cinereous black; head white, with white hairs behind
and beneath; frontalia deep black, linear, with a row of bristles
along each side and beyond; facialia without bristles; epistoma
not prominent; eyes pubescent; palpi black; antennæ reaching the
epistoma; 3rd joint linear, rounded at the tip, six times the length
of the 2nd; arista much longer than the 3rd joint, stout to half its
length; thorax with four black lines; hind part and abdomen coal
black, shining, the latter conical, not longer than the thorax, setose
towards the tip; legs black; hind tibiæ slightly fringed; wings grey;
veins black; præbrachial vein forming a hardly obtuse angle at its
flexure, almost straight from thence to its tip; discal transverse
vein undulating, parted by much less than its length from the
border, and by a little less than its length from the flexure of the
præbrachial; alulæ testaceous white, very large. Length of the body
4-1/2 lines; of the wings 8 lines.
108. EURYGASTER PROMINENS, n. s. _Mas._ Cinereo-nigra, capite albo,
oculis pubescentibus, palpis, antennis pedibusque nigris, thorace
lineis quatuor indistinctis, abdominis basi vitta dorsali et
segmentorum marginibus posticis nigris, scutelli apice rufescente,
abdomine segmenti 2^{i} lateribus subrufescentibus, alis cinereis,
alulis albis.
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