. Fig. 101. Antenna of M. melancholicus cf. x 65. From a dried object. above, pale below. Antennae black, the third joint longer than broad, with a little excision above just before the apex, in which the arista is inserted; this latter is short, only somewhat longer than the antennae. Thorax greyish black, somewhat brownish pruinose, dull; in the middle there are two more grey stripes; the acrostichal bristles distinct: the dorsocentral rows consisting of numerous short bristles in front and four to five longer bristles behind, longest backwards; the small hairs on the front part of the disc
. Fig. 101. Antenna of M. melancholicus cf. x 65. From a dried object. above, pale below. Antennae black, the third joint longer than broad, with a little excision above just before the apex, in which the arista is inserted; this latter is short, only somewhat longer than the antennae. Thorax greyish black, somewhat brownish pruinose, dull; in the middle there are two more grey stripes; the acrostichal bristles distinct: the dorsocentral rows consisting of numerous short bristles in front and four to five longer bristles behind, longest backwards; the small hairs on the front part of the disc somewhat numerous. Scutellum with four bristles. Pleura dark grey pruinose; propleura with about four blackish prothoracic bristles. Abdomen black, slightly metallic, almost not pruinose, shining; it is clothed with short, blackish hairs, and has somewhat long hindmarginal bristles on the first segment. Venter greyish black. Hypopygium long but not thick, shining black; the eighth segment a little greyish pruinose, with somewhat bristly hairs at the upper margin; the ventral lobes and the outer lamellae small, brownish. Legs black, coxae greyish pruinose; the knees very slightly and narrowly, almost not, reddish; hind metatarsus about half as long as the second joint, without excision. The legs have short, blackish, on the posterior side of the hind tibiae more brownish, hairs; the bristly hairs on the anterior coxae and the bristle on the hind
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