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Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 4: Zoology
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_Male._ Cinereous black; head white, with white hairs behind and
beneath; frontalia deep black, widening to the epistoma, with a row
of bristles along each side and beyond; facialia without bristles;
epistoma not prominent; eyes pubescent; palpi black; antennæ extending
to the epistoma; 3rd joint linear, narrow, rounded at the tip, full
four times the length of the 2nd; arista much longer than the 3rd
joint, stout to nearly half its length; thorax with four indistinct
black lines; scutellum reddish towards its tip; abdomen nearly oval,
cinereous, not longer than the thorax; 1st segment, hind borders of
the following segments, and dorsal stripe black; 2nd segment slightly
reddish on each side; legs black; wings grey; veins black; præbrachial
vein forming a right angle at its flexure, near which it is very
slightly curved inward, and is thence straight to its tip; discal
transverse vein hardly undulating, parted by much less than its length
from the border, and by less than its length from the flexure of the
præbrachial; alulæ white, very large. Length of the body 3-1/4 lines;
of the wings 6-1/2 lines.
109. EURYGASTER DEDUCENS, n. s. _Foem._ Cinerea, capite albo, oculis
nudis, palpis, antennis pedibusque nigris, thorace lineis quatuor,
abdominis basi fasciisque tribus nigris, scutello rufescente, alis
cinereis basi nigris, alulis albis.
_Female._ Cinereous, bristly, head white, with whitish hairs behind
and beneath; frontalia deep black, widening to the face, with black
bristles along each side and beyond; facialia without bristles, except
by the epistoma, which is slightly prominent; eyes bare; antennæ
reaching the epistoma; 3rd joint linear, rather broad, slightly
rounded at the tip, about four times the length of the 2nd; arista
much longer than the 3rd joint, stout to half its length; thorax with
four black lines; scutellum reddish; abdomen conical, not longer than
the thorax, black at the base, and with three black bands on the hind
borders of the segments; wings grey, black at the base; veins black,
testaceous at the base, except along the costa; præbrachial vein
forming an obtuse angle at its flexure, slightly curved inward from
thence to its tip; discal transverse vein straight, except a slight
curve at its base, parted by a little more than half its length from
the border, and by much less than its length from the flexure of the
præbrachial; alulæ white. Length of the body 3-3/4 lines; of the wings
7 lines.
110. EURYGASTER CONTRACTA, n. s. _Foem._ Cinerea, brevis, capite albo,
palpis, antennis pedibusque nigris, thorace vittis quatuor nigris,
abdomine nigro fasciis tribus latis subinterruptis argento-cinereis,
alis cinereis basi nigricantibus, alulis albis.
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