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Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 4: Zoology
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_Female._ Deep golden green, thickly beset with very stout bristles;
head silvery white; vertex green on each side; frontalia piceous,
very broad, with long stout bristles on each side; facialia without
bristles; face black, deeply keeled, the keel partly white; epistoma
slightly prominent; eyes bare; palpi long, subclavate; antennæ almost
reaching the epistoma, 3rd joint full four times the length of the
2nd; pectus with a silvery spot on each side; abdomen elongate-oval, a
little longer than the thorax, with long stout spines hindward, purple
at the tip, where there is a silvery spot on each side; legs black,
very stout; wings blackish, black at the base and along part of the
costa; veins black; præbrachial vein forming a rounded right angle at
its flexure, near which it is curved inward, and is thence straight to
its tip; discal transverse vein undulating, parted by more than half
its length from the border and by less than half its length from the
flexure of the præbrachial; alulæ white. _Var. β._ Disk of the thorax
bright cupreous; abdomen blue and purple beneath, _Var. γ._ Like _Var.
β;_ palpi tawny; disk of the abdomen bright cupreous. Length of the body
7-8 lines; of the wings 12-14 lines.
125. MUSCA DELECTANS, n. s. (n. subg. Isomyia). _Foem._ Cuprea, capite
cinereo lateribus anticis fulvis, palpis fulvis latiusculis, antennis
rufescentibus, scutello aurato, viridi-abdominis fasciis pedibusque
nigris, alis cinereis apud costam nigricantibus apud venas posticas
subluridis, alulis albido-testaceis, halteribus fulvis.
_Female._ Bright cupreous, rather long; head cinereous, tawny and
somewhat produced on each side of the peristoma; frontalia black,
slightly widening towards the face, with a few bristles along each
side; facialia without bristles; epistoma somewhat prominent; eyes
bare; palpi tawny, rather broad; antennæ reddish, not near reaching
the epistoma, 3rd joint about one-third of the length of the 2nd;
scutellum mostly golden green; abdomen nearly oval, broader but hardly
longer than the thorax, with a black band on the hind border of each
segment; legs black; wings grey, blackish along the costa towards the
base, slightly lurid along the hinder veins; veins black; præbrachial
vein forming a slightly obtuse and rounded angle at its flexure, much
curved inward from thence to its tip; discal transverse vein deeply
undulating, parted by more than half its length from the border and by
much more than half its length from the flexure of the præbrachial;
alulæ whitish testaceous; halteres tawny. Length of the body 7 lines;
of the wings 12 lines.
126. MUSCA INGENS. n. s. (Gen. Calliphora, _Desv._). _Foem._
Nigricanti-cyanea, valde setosa, capite albo, palpis antennis
pedibusque nigris, pectore cinereo, abdomine spinoso fasciis tribus
argenteis late interruptis, alis nigricantibus margine postico
cinereo, alulis albidis.
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