. Diptera Brachycera. Brachycera. I'llOSOPOC'M HYSA . S\ I CifOCTT liYSA . 8 / oue-lifth width oP liead, slightly tinged with blue, brilliant violet immediately above anteuiise. punctate, wholly brilliantly shining metallic blue or blue-green, with very short whitish pubescence. Abdomen metallic black or dark bronze-green, with very short sparse whitish pubescence, which a little longer round margin and tip ; venter darker, nearly black. Legs black, with microscopic pubescence : all the tarsi yellowish white except. Fig. G.—Prosopoch'i/sa vitripenuis, Dol., wiug. at tips. Wings clea
. Diptera Brachycera. Brachycera. I'llOSOPOC'M HYSA . S\ I CifOCTT liYSA . 8 / oue-lifth width oP liead, slightly tinged with blue, brilliant violet immediately above anteuiise. punctate, wholly brilliantly shining metallic blue or blue-green, with very short whitish pubescence. Abdomen metallic black or dark bronze-green, with very short sparse whitish pubescence, which a little longer round margin and tip ; venter darker, nearly black. Legs black, with microscopic pubescence : all the tarsi yellowish white except. Fig. G.—Prosopoch'i/sa vitripenuis, Dol., wiug. at tips. Wings clear, veins and stigmatic region yellowish; 3rd vein simple, straight, ending at some distance before wing-tip ; halteres apple-green. Length, 5 mm. Redescribed from two 6 d and three $ $ in the Indian Museum, and some in the Pusa collection. Genus MICROCHRYSA, Liv. Micfoc/tri/sa, Loew, Verb, Ges. Wien, v, p. 146 (1855) ; Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. i, p. 103 (1907). tioriso7nn, Rondaui, Dipt. Ital. Prod, i, p. 168 (1856). Chloromi, Rondaui, ojy. cit. iv, p. 11 (1861). GrENOTYPE, Musca polita, L. (Europe); by original designation. Jfead broader than thorax, face small, slightly pubescent; occiput concave in S, posterior eye-orbits distinct, in 5 ; ocelli equidistant; eyes bare, in d contiguous, upper facets larger than lower ones, in 5 widely separated, facets equal in size. Antennae of typical Sargid form, 3rd joint with four annulations, arista practically apical. Thorax longer than broad, slightly wider behind, shining metallic, with short dense inconspicuous pu- bescence. Abdomen very short, rounded, shining : pubescence extremely short, though sometimes dense. Legs simple, tibiae sometimes slightly dilated apically. Wings of normal Sargid type, terminations of 4tli vein less parallel; thoracic squamre more normally shaped than in Sargns, pubescent. In all minor characters mainly as in Sargus. Bange. Europe, Asia, South Africa, North and South America. Life-histori/.
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