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before its end there is a brown spot ; the third longitudinal vein is beset 

 with bristles ; proboscis not geniculated. Long. corp. 0.17|; long. aK_ 

 0.20. 



SYN. Muscafucata FABRICICS, Ent. Syst. IV, p. 359, 194. 

 Tephrilis fucata FABRICIUS, Syst. Antl. p. 321, 24. 

 Trypctafucata WIEDEMANN, Auss. Zweifl. II, p. 505, 44. 



Clay-yellowish, almost ochre-yellow. Head rather pale yellow. 

 Front and sides of the face with short, unusually dense yellowish 

 pile. Front of a medium breadth; the bristles brownish-yellow, 

 brown towards the tip. Antennae pale yellow, of medium length, 

 reaching almost to the anterior edge of the mouth, which is very 

 much drawn upwards ; the short pile on the second joint is yel- 

 lowish ; the third joint has an indistinctly rounded anterior 

 corner; antennal arista apparently bare, but little incrassated at 

 the basis. Face rather narrow, somewhat excavated, distinctly 

 carinate between the autennal fovea? ; in the profile, its lower part 

 is produced in the shape of a short snout. Eyes large, oval ; 

 cheeks narrow, with yellow pile and bristles. Oral opening large, 

 longer than broad ; the rather broad palpi yellowish and with 

 yellowish pile, reaching to the anterior edge of the oral opening; 

 proboscis short, not geniculated. The whole thorax is so thickly 

 covered with yellow pollen and short, yellow pile, that its ground 

 color, which seems to be grayish-brown, is hardly visible ; the 

 ordinary bristles, two pairs of which are inserted upon the middle 

 of the upper side, are brownish-yellow ; their tip is dark brown. 

 The ground color of the scutellum is pale yellow, which color is, 

 however, but little apparent, on account of a short yellow pile, 

 similar to that on the thorax ; the scutellum has four bristles. 

 Abdomen of the same coloring as the thorax; the short hairs and 

 bristles are all yellow. Feet yellow, with yellow pile, the ante- 

 rior femora have yellowish bristles. The reticulation of the wings 

 consists of hyaline, almost whitish, rather large, and not very 

 numerous drops ; it does not reach the extreme root of the wings ; 

 upon the posterior margin and at the extreme apex of the wing the 

 coloring is uniformly grayish-brown ; elsewhere, it is clay-yellow, 

 with a brown picture, which partly frames in the hyaline drops, 

 partly includes little clay-yellowish drops, so that the coarser reti- 

 culation formed by the hyaline drops, in its turn appears reticu- 

 late. Upon the anterior margin itself there are five, in part 

 almost punctiform, brownish-black transverse streaks ; upon the 



