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the face beset with a very few bristles at the base : eyes red ; all the 

 facets very small : sucker and palpi black : feelers black, nearly as 

 long as the face; third joint linear, truncated at the tip, full four 

 times the length of the second ; bristle nearly twice the length of the 

 third joint, stout for full half the length, its first joint distinct, but 

 shorter than its second: chest adorned with four interrupted darker 

 stripes : abdomen elliptical, a little broader but not longer than the 

 chest, adorned with au interrupted dark brown stripe on the back, 

 and with two dark brown spots on each segment : legs black, clothed 

 with black hairs and bristles ; thighs tinged with gray ; shanks 

 tawny at the base ; foot-cushions tawny : wings slightly gray ; wing- 

 ribs pitchy ; veins black, tawny at the base ; tip cross-vein united 

 with the fourth longitudinal vein by a very shallow outward curve, 

 straight from thence till near the tip, where it is very slightly in- 

 clined inward, joining the lower border at a short distance from the 

 tip of the wing ; lower cross-vein straight for some space from the 

 base, and then having two very indistinct curves, the lower inward, 

 the upper outward ; scales white, with pale yellow borders ; poisers 

 pale tawny. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 

 a. France ? 



Stomoxys ? Cybira, n. s., fem. Flavo-fusca, tessellata, capite antico 

 argenteo, thoracis vittis quatuor nigris, antennis pedibusque ni- 

 gris, alis limpidis. 



Body black, clothed with black hairs and bristles, adorned with 

 yellowish brown reflections: head covered in front with silvery- 

 white lustre ; epistoma slightly prominent ; sides of the face beset 

 with bristles at the base ; sucker black ; palpi tawny : eyes red ; fore 

 part flat, its facets larger than those elsewhere : feelers black, a little 

 shorter than the face; third joint flat above, very slightly convex 

 beneath, truncated at the tip ; bristle very stout, much longer than 

 the third joint: chest adorned with four black stripes ; breast gray- 

 ish : abdomen elliptical, dark brown, a little broader but hardly lon- 

 ger than the chest, adorned with yellowish brown reflections : legs 

 black, tinged with yellowish brown ; shanks tawny at the base ; foot- 

 cushions tawny : wings colourless ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, 

 tawny towards the base ; tip cross-vein united with the fourth longi- 

 tudinal vein by a very shallow outward curve, almost straight from 

 thence till near the tip, where it has an extremely slight inward 

 curve, joining the border a little below the tip of the wing; lower 

 cross-vein with a very slight outward curve at each end, and with an 

 equally slight but much longer inward curve in the middle part ; 



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