Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 4: ZoologyLinnean Society of London
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Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 4: Zoology
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_Female._ Testaceous white, narrow, bristly; head somewhat prominent;
frontalia black, slightly widening towards the epistoma, with
a few long stout black bristles on each side; facialia without
bristles; epistoma not prominent; sides of the peristoma tawny and
slightly produced; eyes bare; proboscis and palpi tawny, the former
geniculated, rather long; antennæ pale luteous, 3rd joint lanceolate,
not reaching the epistoma, thrice the length of the second; arista
plumose; thorax with two slender deep black stripes and with two
exterior broad blackish stripes; scutellum with six black spines;
abdomen tawny, fusiform, longer than the thorax, with little black
hairs, with several black spines, and with a triangular black spot
on the hind border of each segment; 3rd segment with a testaceous
spot at the base, 4th with a testaceous basal band; legs long,
black; femora tawny, with black tips; tibiæ partly dark tawny; wings
cinereous, blackish along the veins, with an oblique white basal band;
costa black at the base; veins black, testaceous in the white part;
præbrachial vein forming a slightly acute angle and emitting a short
stump at its flexure, curved inward from thence to its tip; discal
transverse vein undulating, parted by hardly more than half its length
from the border, and by less than its length from the flexure of the
præbrachial; alulæ white. Length of the body 5 lines; of the wings 10
lines.
_Mas._ Subaurato-cinerea, abdomine testaceo lanceolato longissimo
fasciis maculisque trigonis nigris connexis, pedibus anticis
longissimis, alis apud costam nigricantibus, venis vis nigricante
marginatis.
_Male._ Pale gilded cinereous, narrow, bristly; frontalia piceous,
widening much towards the epistoma, with bristles along each side;
sides of the peristoma much produced; thorax with four deep black
stripes, the outer pair rather broad; abdomen testaceous, lanceolate,
twice the length of the thorax; hind border of each segment with a
black band which is connected with a triangular black spot; legs very
long, fore legs extremely long; wings blackish along the costa, hardly
blackish along the veins; præbrachial vein curved slightly inward near
its flexure, almost straight from thence to its tip. Length of the
body 8 lines; of the wings 12 lines.
115. DEXIA INCLUDENS, n. s. _Foem._ Atra, capite apud oculos albo,
palpis antennis pedibusque nigris, thorace vittis duabus cinereis,
abdomine lanceolato fasciis tribus albis late interruptis, pedibus
longiusculis, alis nigricanti-cinereis, halteribus testaceis.
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