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Masicera iiicivica, 



Mas et Fcem. — Nigra, nigro-setosa, capite albido, antennarum 

 articulo 3" longissimo epistoma attingente, abdomine aeneo- 

 nigro fasciis interruptis albitlis, ;ilis cinereis apud costam ob- 

 scurioribus, vena transversa praebrachiali nigro-nebulosa. 



Male and Female. — Black, with stout black bristles : head 

 whitish in front ; bristles descending from the frontalia to half the 

 length of the face; epistoma not prominent ; antennae extending 

 to the epistoma ; third joint four times the length of the second ; 

 arista stout for about one third of its length ; thorax not striped j 

 abdomen aeneous black, with a whitish interrupted band on the 

 fore- border of each segment; wings grey, darker along the 

 costa ; veins black; praebrachial vein forming an obtuse angle, 

 curved from thence to its tip, which is hardly in front of the tip 

 of the wing ; praebrachial transverse vein clouded with black ; 

 discal transverse vein straight, parted by a little more than its 

 length from the flexure of the praebrachial, and by much less 

 than its length from the border; alulae dark cinereous. 



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



Hindostan ? 



Genus Lydella, Macq. 



Lydella cessatrix. 



Fcem. — Nigra, gracilis, capite albo, frontalibus rufescentibus, 

 antennis rufescentibus, articulo 3° clavato obtuso, thorace 

 cinereo vittis tribus angnstis indistinctis nigris, abdomine 

 nitente, segmentis cinereo-fasciatis, apice rufescente, alis 

 cinereis, venis transversis subnebulosis, vena praebrachiali 

 angulum vix acutum fingente, vend transversa discali extus 

 vix arcuata, alulis albidis. 



Female. — Black, slender : head white, excepting the vertex ; 

 frontalia reddish, widening in front ; facialia without bristles ; 

 epistoma prominent ; antennae reddish, reaching the epistoma ; 

 second joint rather long ; third widening much from the base to 

 the tip, which is obtuse, about twice the length of the second 

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

 joint ; thorax cinereous, with three slender indistinct black 

 stripes ; abdomen shining, with a cinereous band on the fore- 

 border of each segment, with two black spines in the disk, and 

 with several towards the tip, which is reddish ; wings grey ; 

 veins black ; transverse veins slightly clouded ; praebrachial vein 

 forming a hardly acute angle at its flexure, curved inward from 



