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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 Excerpt: ...bus flavis.. 9. Tibiis omnibus flavis. Shining-green; cilia of the tegulae black; femora black, with green lustre; the extreme tip of the four anterior femora yellow. 1. The eyes contiguous; the third joint of the antennae oblique; the four anterior tibiae yellow, g. All the tibiae yellow. Long. corp. 0.0(1--0.10. Long. al. 0.09--0.10. Syn. Chrysotus obliquus Loew, Neue Beitr. VIII, 63, 3. Male. Eyes completely contiguous upon the face; the small triangular spot between them, immediately below the antennae, is covered with brown-gray dust; the very small palpi black. Tho third joint of the antennae comparatively with long hair, rather large, oblique, its upper margin much more arched than the lower margin, which is almost straight; the arista is subapical. Front metallic-green, without a distinct trace of dust, and becoming broader upwards. Thorax shining green, sometimes rather goldgreen. Coxae and femora black with metallic-green lustre; on tin? four anterior feet the extreme tip of the femora, the tibiae and the greater part of the first joint of the tarsi are yellow, the following part of the tarsi black-brown; the hind tibiae and hind tarsi are decidedly of a brown-black color. The hair upon the feet, though somewhat rough, is short, and even on the hind tibia' of very moderate length; the hind femora have on the under side before the tip but a few bristle-like hairs; the bristles on the tibia?: are very scarce; the pulvilli are very small even on the fore tarsi. Cilia of the tegulae black, though some of them exhibit in a reflected light a yellow-brownish glitter. Wings somewhat tinged with gray; veins black; the posterior transverse vein very close to the root of the wing; the last segment of the fourth longitudinal vein parallel to the third and end...