338 IXSECTA SAUNDEKSIANA. 



MUSCA POLITA, Mas. '^ /, Ui r 



Aureo-viridis ; caput thoracisque latera cyaneo et purpurea varia ; abdo- 

 men ci/aneo-viride, lateribus purpureum ; antenna: lulem ; pedes 

 nigri ; aim limpida. 



Gvlden-greeii : eyes red, composed of very large facets, with a triangixlar 

 compartment of small facets on each side : mouth pitchy ; palpi and pe- 

 ristoma tawny : feelers luteous : head and sides of the breast tinyed with 

 blue and purple : abdomen bluish green, purple on each side: legs black ; 

 onychia pale yellow: uings colourless; veins tawny; prsebrachial vein 

 rounded at the flexure, very slightly curved inward from thence to the tip ; 

 lower cross-vein with two very indistinct curves, the lower inward, the upper 

 outward : alula straw-colour. Length of the body Si lines; of the wings 

 7 lines. 



Var. ^. Chest mostly blue and purple. 



East Indies. 



MuSCA HEBES. *•- A •^,-r ' .; «^ 



Cyaneo-purpurea ; caput albidum ; antenna: picece ; pedes nigri; alee 

 cinereoB, basi fuseee. 



Purple, partly blue : head dull, with a rvhite covering, clothed behind 

 and beneath with short, white haurs; frontalia broad, dull black, linear ; 

 epistoma prominent : mouth pitchy ; palpi dull tawny : feelers pitchy : 

 legs black: uings gray, dark brown at the base ; veins black ; praebrachial 

 vein much curved inward near its flexure ; lower cross-vein with two 

 equally slight curves : alulae white : halteres pale tawny. Length of the 

 body 3 lines ; of the wings 6 lines. - 



Senegal ? 



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Mdsca FELIX, Mas. ^^^-t-Covt^^ 



Cyaneo-viridis, purpurea varia ; caput antice ferrugineum ; abdomen 

 basi nigricans ; antenna picea ; pedes nigri; alee sublimpida. 



Bright bluish green . head with a ichite covering, ferruginous and 

 clothed with white hairs in front ; frontalia black : palpi tawny : feelers 



