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on each side of the epistoma, which is prominent ; eyes pubescent ; 

 palpi clavate, reddish, antennae reddish, third joint convex above, 

 longer than the second arista, black, stout, longer than the third 

 joint; thorax with four slight interrupted black stripes; scutellum 

 reddish ; abdomen deep red, shining, armed with numerous black 

 spines ; legs reddish ; wings grey ; veins black, praebrachial vein 

 forming a right angle at its flexure, straight from thence to its tip, 

 which is at some distance in front of the tip of the wing ; discal 

 transverse vein undulating, parted by less than its length from 

 the border, and by hardly more than half its length from the 

 flexure at the praebrachial ; alulae testaceous. 



Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



Rio Grande. 



Echinomyia platymesa. 

 Fcem. — Nigra, linearis, lurido-tomentosa, vix setosa, capite 

 aurato subtus argenteo, frontalibus atris, facialibus nigro- 

 lineatis, oculis nudis, scutello ferrugineo, pectore cano, abdo- 

 raine ferrugineo-rufo depresso, pedibus nigris non setosis, 

 femoribus fulvis, alis obscure fuscis apud marginem obscure 

 cinereis, alulis testaceis. 

 Female. — Body linear, with very few black bristles; head 

 gilded above, whitish silvery beneath, frontalia deep black, linear, 

 facialia on each side with a black line, which is dilated towards 

 the epistoma, the latter is slightly prominent ; eyes bare ; palpi 

 short ; antennae black, third joint rounded at the tip, much longer 

 than the second joint, arista much longer than the third joint ; 

 thorax with lurid tomentum, scutellum ferruginous ; pectus hoary ; 

 abdomen ferruginous, red, rather flat ; legs black, not setose, 

 femora tawny ; wings dark brown, irregularly dark grey along 

 the hind border ; veins black, praebrachial vein forming an ob- 

 tuse angle at its flexure, slightly curved from thence to its tip, 

 which joins the costal at the tip of the wing ; discal transverse 

 vein undulating, parted by less than half its length from the 

 border, and by rather more than half its length from the flexure 

 of the praebrachial vein ; alulae testaceous. 



Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 11 lines. 

 China. 



Echinoviyia stolida, 



Mas. — Nigra, crassa, cinereo-tomentosa, capite cervino antice 

 subtusque albido subtus tumido, frontalibus luteis, palpis al- 

 bidis, antennis rufescentibus, thorace subvittato, lateribus, 



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