Gen. ECHINOMYIA, _Duméril_.
66. ECHINOMYIA BREVIPENNIS, n. s., mas. Nigra, capite anticè albo,
frontalibus ferrugineis, scutello abdominisque fasciis testaceis,
alis subcinereis parvis basi limpidis.
_Male._ Black, stout. Head white, with white hairs beneath; front and
vertex black, shining; frontalia ferruginous, slightly widening from
the vertex to the antennæ; epistoma slightly prominent. Antennæ
extending to two-thirds of the length of the face; 3rd joint
truncated, not much longer than broad, much broader and shorter than
the 2nd; arista stout, tapering from its two indistinct basal
joints, full twice the length of the 3rd joint. Scutellum
testaceous. Abdomen elongate-oval, longer than the thorax. Wings
greyish, rather short, limpid towards the base; veins black,
testaceous towards the base; præbrachial vein forming a very
slightly acute angle at its flexure, near which it is very deeply
curved inward, and is thence straight to its tip which joins the tip
of the costal; discal transverse vein straight, parted by much less
than its length from the border, and by little more than half its
length from the flexure of the præbrachial. Alulæ greyish, with
testaceous borders. Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 9
lines.
Mount Ophir, at the height of 4000 feet.