. Diptera Brachycera. Brachycera. 313 MYDAIDJ-:. 251. Mydas carinichaeli, Brim. Mydas carmicJiaeli, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mlis. ix, p. 266 (1913). S $ • Head black, frons slightly wider than one-third of the head, somewhat wrinkled, with a moderate amount of blackish- brown pubescence; a small tuft of greyish bail's on each side of the mouth-opening. Proboscis rather less than the height of the head, dark brown ; palpi slender, black, reaching as far forward as the vertical line drawn through the antennal prominence, which latter is small and black. Antennae normal, black, bare, about as long as
. Diptera Brachycera. Brachycera. 313 MYDAIDJ-:. 251. Mydas carinichaeli, Brim. Mydas carmicJiaeli, Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mlis. ix, p. 266 (1913). S $ • Head black, frons slightly wider than one-third of the head, somewhat wrinkled, with a moderate amount of blackish- brown pubescence; a small tuft of greyish bail's on each side of the mouth-opening. Proboscis rather less than the height of the head, dark brown ; palpi slender, black, reaching as far forward as the vertical line drawn through the antennal prominence, which latter is small and black. Antennae normal, black, bare, about as long as from the vertex to the tip of the proboscis. Occiput black, shortly pubescent; a little grey tomentum behind the eye- border. Thorax wholly dull velvet-black, with very short sparse black pubescence, which is a little longer below the Fig. 23.—Mydas carmichaeli, Brim., c$. Abdomen shining black, with a slight indigo-blue tinge and very short pubescence; in <5 subcylindrical, as long as head and thorax together and barely as wide ; in $ a little broader and longer and much more bulky. The <$ genitalia consist of a hollow triangular piece, hairy above, with a deep keel, a pair of dark reddish-brown, nearly bare, moderately long, narrow, finger-like claspers (only one joint being visible, the organs being somewhat withdrawn), and a curved ventral plate, with black pubescence on its lower side. The $ genitalia appear to consist of two telescopic cylin- drical shells, the inner one ending in two small (probably) retractile lamella?. Legs wholly black; coxae with a little short black pubescence ; hind femora with two rows of spines on underside, au inner one of about a dozen and an outer one of a few only. Hind tibiae with a row of reddish spines on underside (not at all conspicuous), and 5 or 6 such spines at the tip on the underside only ; fore tibiae with some inconspicuous spines at tip, which appear to be only the terminal ones of a row on the underside nearly
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