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412 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. | 
Drosopuins MINUTA. 
Nigra, nitens ; tibia apice tarsique flava ; ale limpide. 
Black, shining: abdomen wanting: feet and tips of shanks yellow: 
wings colourless; veins tawny: halteres yellow. Length of the body 3 
line; of the wings 14 line. 
United States. 
DrosopHiLa TARSALIS, Foam. 
Testacea ; facies albida; thoracis discus cinereus ; abdomen apice piceo 
trivittatum; pedes antici albido-flavi, postici, femoribus vibiisque 
apice tarsisque piceis ; ale subcinerea, ad costam nigra. 
Testaceous: face with a whitish covering: mouth tawny: third joint 
of the feelers almost conical, much longer than the second; sixth black, 
tawny at the base, feathered with rather short hairs, more than twice the 
length of the third: disk of the chest cinereous: abdomen obconical, with 
three pitchy stripes towards the tip, not longer than the chest: fore-legs 
whitish yellow; hind-feet and tips of hind-thighs and of hind-shanks 
pitchy ; hind-shanks pitchy at the base: wings slightly gray; fore border 
black ; veins pitchy: halteres yellow. Length of the body 14 line; of the 
wings 3% lines. 
Brazil. 
Drosopuina aTra, Mas. 
Nigra, nitens ; caput testaceum, facie nigra ; tibie postice genuaque fulva ; 
ala subcineree, ad costam picee. 
Black, shining: head testaceous; face black: mouth pitchy: abdo- 
men obconical, longer than the chest: knees and hind-shanks tawny : 
wings slightly gray ; fore border pitchy ; veins tawny: halteres pale tawny. 
Length of the body 1} line; of the wings 3 lines. 
Brazil. 
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