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et angustius. _Pedes_ mediocres; femora posteriora spinis minutis
armata. _Alae_ sat longae.
_Male._ Body rather long. Head transverse, hardly broader than the
thorax, with two erect setae on the hind part of the vertex; face
vertical; epistoma slightly prominent. Antennae nearly reaching the
epistoma; third joint long, linear, conical at the tip; arista
pubescent. Abdomen almost linear, longer and narrower than the thorax.
Legs moderately long and slender; posterior femora with minute spines
beneath. Wings rather long; discal transverse vein straight, upright,
parted by hardly half its length from the border, and by rather more
than its length from the praebrachial transverse.
139. ADRAMA SELECTA, n. s. _Mas._ Testacea; capite guttis tribus nigris;
thorace disco antico vittisque duabus posterioribus nigris; tibiis
tarsisque anticis piceis, tibiis posticis subpiceis; alis
subfuscescentibus, fascia lata limpida nigricante marginata postice
abbreviata.
_Male._ Testaceous. Head with a black dot above the antennae and one on
each side of the epistoma; thorax with the fore part of the disk black,
and with two hindward black stripes; fore tibiae and fore tarsi piceous;
hind tibiae somewhat piceous; wings slightly brownish, with two blackish
bands, the first on the praebrachial transverse vein, abbreviated
hindward, the second on the discal transverse vein, abbreviated in
front, intermediate space limpid, veins testaceous, black towards the
tips; halteres pale testaceous. Length of the body 4-1/2 lines; of the
wings 8 lines.
Gen. ORTALIS, _Fallen_.
140. ORTALIS PROMPTA, n. s. _Foem._ Nigro-viridis; capite piceo apud
oculos albido; antennis rufescentibus; thorace vitta abdomineque fasciis
cinereis; pedibus nigris; alis limpidis, vittis tribus nigris, prima
postice abbreviata, secunda tertiaque latis; halteribus albidis.
_Female._ Blackish green. Head piceous, whitish about the eyes; epistoma
somewhat prominent; antennae reddish, third joint somewhat lanceolate,
piceous towards the tip; arista bare; thorax with a cinereous stripe;
sides and pectus also cinereous; abdomen with two cinereous bands; legs
black; wings limpid white, slightly cinereous towards the base, with
three black bands, the first abbreviated hindward, the second and third
very broad; veins black, discal transverse vein curved inward, parted by
much less than its length from the border and by a little less than its
length from the praebrachial tr
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