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Genus Eumelanomyia. 
small basal median patch of thin narrow-curved pale golden 
scales ; flat scales dull white in front and the middle and along 
the eye borders, rest dark ; clypeus brown ; palpi and proboscis 
deep brown ; antennae brown ; palpi hairy. 
Thorax black and shiny, with paler scales of a brownish hue, 
rather long and thin narrow-curved scales ; some short pale 
chaetae in front and sides, longer dark brown ones over the roots 
of the wings; scutellum black with long thin pale scales and five 
dark brown median posterior border bristles; metanotum shiny 
Fig. 107. 
Eumelanomyia inconspicuosa. cf • n. sp. Head. 
black ; pleurae and prothoracic lobes with small dull white flat 
scales. 
Abdomen deep brown, unbanded, with some paler scales 
laterally and pale border-bristles; venter mostly with dull white 
scales. 
Legs uniformly brown, except the coxae and trochanters, 
which are rich ochreous, the former with flat dull white scales ; 
ungues small, equal and simple. 
Wings with short fork-cells ; the first longer and narrower 
than the second, its base slightly nearer the base of the wing, 
its stem less than half the length of the cell, stem of the second 
posterior cell about two-thirds the length of the cell; posterior 
vcross-vein sloping backwards, about twice its own length distant 
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