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parted by much less than its length from the border, and by 

 hardly more than half its length from the flexure of the praebra- 

 chial ; alulae white. 



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



Brazil. 



Genus Cynomyia, Desv. 



Cynomyia auriceps. 



Fcem. — Laete viridis, capite aurato antice testaceo, frontalibus 

 nigrisj antennis fulvis, thorace vittis quatuor nigris, pedibus 

 nigris dense pilosis, alis cinereis basi obscure fuscis, venis 

 fusco-limbatis, alulis cinereis. 



Female. — Bright green ; head gilded, testaceous in front ; 

 frontalia black, linear ; epistoma rather prominent ; antennae 

 tawny ; arista black ; thorax with four black stripes ; legs black, 

 thickly pilose ; wings grey, dark brown at the base, brown along 

 the borders of the veins ; veins black ; praebrachial vein forming a 

 right and somewhat rounded angl^ at its flexure, near which it is 

 very slightly curved inward, straight from thence to its end, which 

 is at a little in front of the tip of the wing ; discal transverse 

 vein hardly undulating, parted by much less than half its length 

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

 flexure of the praebrachial ; alulae cinereous. 



Length of tlie body 6 lines; of the wings 14 lines. 



Quito. 



Sub-fam. 5. Muscides. 



SYNOPSIS. 



* Proboscis longa, gracilis. 



•|- Palpi proboscide non breviores. Glossina, Wied. 

 t -j- Palpi proboscide breviores. 



J Arista plumosa. 



§ Arista supra plumosa. Stomoxys, Geoff. 

 §§ Arista supra subtusque plumosa. Pac hymia, Macq. 

 J ;}; Arista nuda. Gigamyia, Macq. 

 * * Proboscis brevis. 



t Corpus angustum ; pedes longi. Apatemyia, Macq. 

 -|- -j- Corpus non angustum ; pedes non longi. 



;|; Facies carinata. 



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