LIII. FAMILY ANTHOMYID^E. 



Fig. 135. Spilogaster, species; enlarged. 



Small to moderately large flies, often resembling the 

 common house-fly, usualty non-metallic in color. Anten- 

 nal arista plumose, pubescent or bare; eyes hairy or bare; 

 males often holoptic, sometimes broadly dichoptic, the 

 females always dichoptic; abdomen composed of four or 

 five segments; the male genitalia often with subanal ap- 

 pendages: first posterior cell of wings broadly open; bris- 

 tles of bod}- often weak; squamae usually of considera- 

 ble size. 



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