. Annals of tropical medicine and parasitology. Parasites. 33° length varying from about two-thirds to once the breadth, last four segments sub-equal, about four times as long as broad, not binodose but exhibiting the usual sculpturing (compare D. -flava), the last segment longer and stouter but without a stylet. Thorax uniformly dark brown, with paler, somewhat yellowish, humeral patches. Scutellum dark brown, bearing in both sexes one central, two admedian, and two lateral bristles and no ? short hairs. Post- scutellum dark brown. Pleurae dark brown. Wings hyaline, without spots; clothed wit
. Annals of tropical medicine and parasitology. Parasites. 33° length varying from about two-thirds to once the breadth, last four segments sub-equal, about four times as long as broad, not binodose but exhibiting the usual sculpturing (compare D. -flava), the last segment longer and stouter but without a stylet. Thorax uniformly dark brown, with paler, somewhat yellowish, humeral patches. Scutellum dark brown, bearing in both sexes one central, two admedian, and two lateral bristles and no ? short hairs. Post- scutellum dark brown. Pleurae dark brown. Wings hyaline, without spots; clothed with decumbent hairs which do not extend basally beyond the cross-vein. Venation as in D. -flava; interspace very small in the male, more well developed in the female. Halteres with dusky orange-coloured knobs and infuscated stems. Legs brown, femora and tibiae dark brown, but lighter coloured in the male than in the female. Claws short, equal, simple; in the male bihd at the tips. Empodium rudimentary, but in comparison with the size of the claws appearing to be larger than usual. Abdomen dark brown, venter slightly paler than the dorsum. Spermatheca single, highly chitinised, pyriform (about 42// by 38/u); chitinised part at the commencement of the duct conical, about 11 // long. Hypopygium (fig. 2). Ninth segment: tergite tapering slightly posteriorly, sparsely clothed with strong hairs, posterior margin not. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Liverpool University Press [etc. ]
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