_Mas._ _Corpus_ metallicolor, subsetosum. _Caput_ latiusculum. _Palpi_
longiusculi. _Antennæ_ breves; articulus 3^{us} sublinearis; arista
latè pumosa. _Thorax_ robustus. _Abdomen_ lineare, thorace paullò
longius et multò angustius. _Pedes_ longiusculi, sat validi. _Alæ_
mediocriter longæ latæque.
_Male._ Body metallic, slightly setose. Head rather broad, hardly
narrower than the thorax; epistoma not prominent. Proboscis short.
Palpi porrect, rather long and stout. Antennæ short, not nearly
reaching the epistoma; 3rd joint almost linear; arista deeply
plumose, much more than twice the length of the 3rd joint. Thorax
stout. Abdomen linear, a little longer than the thorax and about
half its breadth. Legs rather long and stout. Wings moderately long
and broad; subcostal vein ending at rather beyond one-third of the
length; mediastinal ending at very much beyond half the length;
radial ending at beyond five-sixths of the length; cubital ending at
hardly in front of the tip; discal transverse nearly straight,
slightly oblique, parted by about half its length from the border,
and by rather more than its length from the præbrachial transverse.
115. XIRIA ANTICA, n. s., mas. Purpurea, capite nigro, antennarum
articulo 3^o ferrugineo, pedibus testaceis, tibiis nigris, tarsis
albis anticis ferrugineis, alis sublimpidis apice nigricantibus
maculis costalibus albis et nigricantibus.
_Male._ Purple. Head and appendages black. Third joint of the antennæ
ferruginous. Legs testaceous; tibiæ black; fore tarsi ferruginous;
posterior tarsi white, with brown tips. Wings nearly limpid, with
two white and two blackish spots on the costa; tips blackish; veins
black, testaceous along the costa. Halteres whitish. Length of the
body 4 lines; of the wings 8 lines.
Mount Ophir.