Neoascia. 



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hairs pale, dark only in front of the ocelli. Epistoma less protruding. 

 Antennæ with the third joint a little longer, nearly twice as long as 

 broad; arista about of the length of the third joint. Thorax æneous 

 green, a little more densely punctate, but shining; it is clothed with 



Fig. 145. Wing of N. dispar d". 



yellow hairs, only a little darker on the middle of the disc, some- 

 times more brownish. Abdomen with the second segment narrowest 

 behind the front end, the sides slightly incurved; abdomen is æneous 

 or æneous green, not bluisb, and it is more densely punctate than in 

 floralis, especially the second segment, which is a little transversely 



Fig. 146. Fig. 147. 



Abdomen of N. dispar. 

 Fig. 146. Male. Fig. 147. Female, 



rugose; there is only one yellow band, lying at the front margin of 

 the third segment, it is narrower than in fforalis, not reaching over 

 half the length of the segment, and it is not obliquely cut at the front 

 corners but going to the margin in fuU width or sloping a little for- 

 wards. Venter coloured as dorsum. Legs with the anterior femora 



