. Monographs of the Diptera of North America [microform] / prepared for the Smithsonian Institution by R. Osten Sacken. Diptera; Insects; Diptères; Insectes. TOXOUIIIIINA. 115 Opposite the origin of the second vein; section of the second vein, posterior to tiie small cross-vein, arcuated ; the great cross- veiii is at the very basis of the discal cell; the cross-vein sepa- ruting the discal from the (irst basal cell is very oblique; no vestige of a stigma (Tab. I, f. 6). Uab. New Jersey, in July (Cresson^ ; a male and a female speeimen. 3. T. milliebria 0. S. %.âObscuro cinerea, fronte latior
. Monographs of the Diptera of North America [microform] / prepared for the Smithsonian Institution by R. Osten Sacken. Diptera; Insects; Diptères; Insectes. TOXOUIIIIINA. 115 Opposite the origin of the second vein; section of the second vein, posterior to tiie small cross-vein, arcuated ; the great cross- veiii is at the very basis of the discal cell; the cross-vein sepa- ruting the discal from the (irst basal cell is very oblique; no vestige of a stigma (Tab. I, f. 6). Uab. New Jersey, in July (Cresson^ ; a male and a female speeimen. 3. T. milliebria 0. S. %.âObscuro cinerea, fronte latiori, vittis thorai-i:! obscuris, pedibus pallidis, alid iminuuulatis. Dark cin«<renu8, front rather broad, stripes of the thorax blackish, feot pale tawny, wings imtuaculate. Long. corp. SvN. Toxorrhina muliebris 0. Sacken, Proo. Phil. Entom. Soc. 18t!5, p. 233. Head blackish or dark gray; occiput and occipital orbits cinereous; antenna! brownish ; basal joints darkcT; i)roboscis pale brown. blackish-gray ; the usual three stripes are still darker, almost black; they occupy the great-r part of the mcsonotum ; the latter shows, especially on the sides, a yellowish bloom ; metathorax blackish, with a gray bloom. Feet, including the eoxie, yellowish ; tarsi infuscated from the tip of the first joint. Abdomen blackish; forceps of the male reddish-yellow. Wings hyaline; no vestige of a stigma ; costal and first longitudinal veins tawny, the other veins darker brown ; the tip of the au.\- iliary vein is very slightly beyond the origin of the second vein; the section of the second vein, posterior to the small cross-vein, is strongly arcuated ; the cross-vein at the inner end of the discal cell is very oblique; the great cross-vein is a little before the discal cell. * Hub. Princeton, Mass. (Scuddcr) ; a single male specimen. This species is distinguished from the preceding by its much smaller size, its darker and more gray coloring, and its compara- tively broader
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