. Diptera Danica: genera and species of flies hitherto found in Denmark. Diptera. 234 Orthorrhapha brachycera. of the antennae. Thorax dark metallic green, sometimes somewhat bluish, often with two faint darker stripes in the middle; it is a little greyish pruinose, and generally somewhat whitish at the humeri, shining; the thoracic disc somewhat densely hairy. Scutellum with somewhat longish. Fig. 74. Antenna of A. diaphana d", from the inside. X 55. hairs above; pleura grey, slightly greenish or aeneous; prothoracic bristles strong, black. Abdomen somewhat metallic green, first segment
. Diptera Danica: genera and species of flies hitherto found in Denmark. Diptera. 234 Orthorrhapha brachycera. of the antennae. Thorax dark metallic green, sometimes somewhat bluish, often with two faint darker stripes in the middle; it is a little greyish pruinose, and generally somewhat whitish at the humeri, shining; the thoracic disc somewhat densely hairy. Scutellum with somewhat longish. Fig. 74. Antenna of A. diaphana d", from the inside. X 55. hairs above; pleura grey, slightly greenish or aeneous; prothoracic bristles strong, black. Abdomen somewhat metallic green, first segment greyish black, the rest densely covered with a silvery pruinosity; the second and ttiird segments with a large, yellow, translucent spot at each side, the spots on the third segment may be indistinct or quite wanting; abdomen clothed with somewhat longish, black hairs, and it has long hindmarginal bristles, longest on the first segment; eighth segment with dense hairs, and some longer bristles at the apex. Venter grey, with black hairs, long at the base and at the hind margins. Legs black, coxae somewhat greyish; anterior femora with the apex, and the anterior tibiae yellow, hind tibiae yellow, blackish at base and apex; anterior tarsi brownish or blackish towards the end, hind tarsi blackish, sometimes with the basal joint paler; hind metatarsus slightly longer than the second joint. The legs have short, black hairs, the anterior coxae densely bristly anteriorly; hind cox^e with a row of bristles on the outer side: anterior femora with long, bristly hairs below, longest on the middle femora; hind femora with longish hairs both above and below; front tibiae with some bristles above, middle tibiae with two dorsal rows, and some smaller ventral bristles, hind tibiae likewise with two dorsal rows; front metatarsi with a ventral row of long bristles. Wings almost hyaline, or a little brownish tinged; veins blackish; the bend of the discal vein somewhat large, lying nearer the cross
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