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forming a nearly right angle at its flexure, near which it is 

 slightly inclined inward, and is thence straight to its tip, which 

 is near the tip of the cubital vein ; discal transverse vein hardly 

 undulating ; parted by little more than half its length from the 

 border, and by less than its length from the flexure of the prae- 

 brachial ; alulae white. 



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



South America. 



Masicera albescens. 



Mas. — Nigra, cano-tomentosa, capite argenteo, frontalibus atris, 

 palpis testaceis, oculis nudis, antennis basi rufescentibus, 

 thorace vittis quatuor nigricantibus, abdomine obconico sub- 

 tessellato lateribus ferrugineis, alis subcinereis, venis testaceis, 

 alulis albis. 

 Male. — Black, with hoary tomentum ; head with silvery white 

 tomentum, clothed behind with whitish hairs ; frontalia deep 

 black, very slightly widening towards the antennae ; bristles de- 

 scending from the front to nearly half the length of the face ; 

 facialia with a few bristles on each side towards the epistoma, 

 which is not prominent ; peristoma and palpi testaceous ; eyes 

 bare ; antennae reddish towards the base, almost reaching the 

 epistoma ; third joint linear, full four times the length of the se- 

 cond ; arista slender, very much longer than the third joint ; 

 thorax with four indistinct blackish stripes ; abdomen obconical, 

 slightly tessellated with a few black spines towards the tip ; sides 

 ferruginous ; wings greyish ; veins testaceous ; praebrachial vein 

 forming an obtuse angle at its flexure, slightly curved inward 

 from thence to its tip, which joins the costal at some distance in 

 front of the tip of the wing ; discal transverse vein undulating, 

 parted by a little more than half its length from the border and 

 from the flexure of the praebrachial ; alulae white. 

 Length of the body 4| lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 

 Hindostan. 



Masicera inclinans. 



Fcem. — Nigra, gracilis, cinereo-tomentosa, capite albo subtus 

 albo-tomentoso, frontalibus atris, oculis nudis, thorace vittis 

 quatuor nigris, abdomine longi-obconico fasciis tribus latis 

 apiceque nigris, pedibus longiusculis, alis fuscis longiusculis 

 sat angustis, apice margineque interiore cinereis, alulis 

 albidis. 



