Archive image from page 295 of Diptera Brachycera (1920) Diptera Brachycera dipterabrachycer01brune Year: 1920 282 and a short apical style. Eyes in both sexes normally distant, but sometimes contiguous in J . oval or nearly rounded, arched ; scutellum short and broad. Abdomen of seven segments, short oval, broadei* than thorax. Legs rather stout, bare, without spicules. Wings in rest, halt open ; venation as in Geron. Range. Europe, Asia, North Africa. Life-historg unknown. The two Indian species are distinguished as follows :— Thorax with two or three elongate light gre
Archive image from page 295 of Diptera Brachycera (1920) Diptera Brachycera dipterabrachycer01brune Year: 1920 282 and a short apical style. Eyes in both sexes normally distant, but sometimes contiguous in J . oval or nearly rounded, arched ; scutellum short and broad. Abdomen of seven segments, short oval, broadei* than thorax. Legs rather stout, bare, without spicules. Wings in rest, halt open ; venation as in Geron. Range. Europe, Asia, North Africa. Life-historg unknown. The two Indian species are distinguished as follows :— Thorax with two or three elongate light grey spots on anterior margin sedophila, Brun. Thorax with anterior margin broadly light grey, produced posteriorly as four short stripes manjitiatd, Brun. 225. Usia sedophila, Brin. Usia sedophila, Brunetti. Rec. lud. Mas. iii, p. 227 (1909). cJ. Head: vertex prominent, black, shining, with a few erect long hairs; ocelli distinct, whitish ; eyes black, bare, contiguous for more than half the distance from vertex to antennae ; facets in front and above distinctly larger than those behind and below, but no distinct dividing line. Antenuse black, bare, except for an occasional hair; first two joints short; 8rd somewhat flattened, but thick and slightly curved, elongate, and with a peculiar notch towards the tip on upper side, in which is a single hair. Proboscis about twice the length of the head, black, cylindrical, stiff, straight, bent upwards at tip, bare, except for a few minute hairs at tip ; face dark greyish, with some stiff black hairs on each cheek, and Fig. 19.— Usia sedophila, Brun., wing. a long elevated shining black callus between the median line and the eye-margins ; back of head black, not produced behind margins of eyes, with long sparse black hairs, contiuued on underside of head. Thorax dull black, velvety on dorsum, with some black and lale hairs towards the sides, and three whitish-grey elongate spots on anterior border, of which the middle one is often
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