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aa. Alula; small ; lower valve generally not extending beyond the upper. 

 b. Sixth feeler-joint feathered Hylemyia. 



certa, despecta. 

 bb. Sixth feeler joint downy Chortophila. 



Maura, CEthiops, tenuior, Brasiliensis. 

 h b b. Sixth feeler-joint bare. 



communis. 



Anthomyia pe.ecipua, Mas. 



Nigra, ciiureo-tomentosa ; caput albo-tomcntosum ; antenna; pi cece ; tho- 

 rax nigra quadrivittaius, scutelli apive fulvo ; pedes fulvi, tarsis 

 nigris ; alee cinerece, casta venisque fusco niarginatis. 



Black, with a cinereous covering : head with a ivhite covering ; frontalia 

 deep black, widening much towards the feelers ; facialia without bristles ; 

 epistoma slightly prominent: eyes bare, facets above rather large : mouth 

 tawny beneath ; palpi black : /ee/ers pjVcAy ,- third joint linear, rounded at 

 the tip, nearly reaching the epistoma, more than twice the length of the 

 second ; sixth slender, feathered with long hairs, tawny at the base, more 

 than twice the length of the third: chest with four black stripes; tip of the 

 scutcheon tawny : abdomen obconical, not longer than the chest, with a few 

 bristle-bearing tubercles : legs tawny ; feet black : wings gray, brownish 

 beneath the fore border and along the veins ; veins black, tawny at the base ; 

 lower cross-vein slightly bent inward in the middle: alulae colourless with 

 yellow borders : halteres yellow. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 

 9 lines. 



Brazil. 



Anthomyia stupiua, Mas ct Fem. 



Cinereu ; caput canum ; palpi fulvi; antenna; nigra; ; pedes fulvi, tarsis 

 nigris ; alw subcinerea;, basi costaque subfulvis. 



Cinereous : head hoary, white along the eyes ; crown and lateralia cine- 

 reous ; epistoma not prominent : mouth pitchy ; palpi tawny : feelers 

 black; third joint more than twice the length of the second, not reaching 

 the epistoma : breast with an oblique tawny scapula on each side : legs 

 taivny a feet black : icings pale gray, uith a slight tawny tinge at the base 



