Archive image from page 276 of Diptera Brachycera (1920) Diptera Brachycera dipterabrachycer01brune Year: 1920 BOMBl'LIUS. 263 7. Snow-wLite pile aud hairs at tip of abdo- meu ; 3rd antennal joiot neai-ly double as long- as 1st and 2nd together terminalis, Brun., p. 270. No white hairs on abdomen 8. 8. Wings clear, brown at base, nearly up to anterior cross-vein fulvipes, Big., p. 271. Basal half of wing diagonally brown, the colour dying away gradually iropinqims, Brun., p. 272, In comparisons between the length of the proboscis orabdonien relatively to tliat of the thorax the scutellum is
Archive image from page 276 of Diptera Brachycera (1920) Diptera Brachycera dipterabrachycer01brune Year: 1920 BOMBl'LIUS. 263 7. Snow-wLite pile aud hairs at tip of abdo- meu ; 3rd antennal joiot neai-ly double as long- as 1st and 2nd together terminalis, Brun., p. 270. No white hairs on abdomen 8. 8. Wings clear, brown at base, nearly up to anterior cross-vein fulvipes, Big., p. 271. Basal half of wing diagonally brown, the colour dying away gradually iropinqims, Brun., p. 272, In comparisons between the length of the proboscis orabdonien relatively to tliat of the thorax the scutellum is not included. 205. Bombylius orientalis, Macq. Bombylius orientalis, Macquart, Dipt. Exot. ii, pt. 1, p. 90, pi. vi, tig-. 2 (1840) ; Brunetti, Rec. Ind. Mus. ii, p. 456 (1909). Bombylius tricolor, Guerin, Icon. Regne Anim. iii, p. 538, pi. xcv (1829-1838). cJ $ . Head : in J, vertex very small, black, with black hairs ; frons and face black, former with long whitish or yellowish- white hairs, similar hairs adorning each side of the face; lower part of head devoid of pubescence ; occiput with brownish-yellow hairs. Antennae black ; 3rd joint twice as long as 1st aud 2ud together, tapering ; 1st joint with long grey hair above and below. Fig. 14.—Bovhylius oricii'alis, Macq. Proboscis black, as long as from the frons to hind border of thorax ; palpi brownish black. lu $ , frons about one-third the width of the head, slightly narrower above, with greyish pubescence ; in all else as in tlie . Thorax and scutellum closely covered with ratlier short brownish-yellow pubescence. Abdomen black, with thick yellowish-grey hairs towards sides and at base, and with the tip covered with whitish hairs; the remainder of the dorsum covered with fiery-red or orange-red hairs; the pubescence in the
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