_. Face broad; antennae short, third joint
elongate-conical; arista bare; middle femora incrassated, denticulated
beneath.
137. BREA DISCALIS, n. s. _Mas_. Nigra; capite testaceo apud oculos
albido, fronte ochracea; antennis piceis basi rufescentibus; thorace
vitta lata cana; abdomine fulvo, disco nigro cupreo; pedibus fulvis,
femoribus anticis apice tibiisque anticis basi nigris; alis sublimpidis,
fascia media lata postice abbreviata guttam limpidam subcostalem
includente lineaque transversa exteriore nigricantibus; halteribus
testaceis.
_Male_. Black. Head testaceous, whitish about the eyes, front
ochraceous; antennae piceous, reddish at the base; thorax with a broad
hoary stripe; abdomen tawny, with a blackish cupreous disk; legs tawny,
fore femora at the tips and fore tibiae at the base black; wings nearly
limpid, with a broad middle blackish band, which is abbreviated hindward
and includes a limpid dot by the costa, and has beyond it a blackish
transverse line; veins black, testaceous towards the base; discal
transverse vein straight, upright, parted by half its length from the
border, and by much more than its length from the praebrachial
transverse; halteres testaceous. Length of the body 4 lines; of the
wings 7 lines.
138. BREA CONTRARIA, n. s. _Mas et Foem._ Nigra; capite fulvo apud
oculos albido, fronte ochracea; antennis rufescentibus; thorace vitta
cana; abdomine purpureo apice cyaneo; pedibus nigris, femoribus anticis
tarsisque testaceis; alis sublimpidis, fascia lata media postice
abbreviata, guttis interioribus lineaque transversa exteriore
nigricantibus.
_Male and Female._ Black. Head tawny, whitish about the eyes; antennae
reddish; thorax with a hoary stripe; sides and pectus also hoary;
abdomen purple, blue towards the tip; legs black; tarsi and fore femora
testaceous; wings nearly limpid, with a broad blackish middle band which
is abbreviated hindward, with some interior blackish dots, and with an
exterior transverse blackish line; veins black; discal transverse vein
straight, parted by less than half its length from the border, and by
less than its length from the praebrachial transverse; halteres black.
Length of the body 3--3-1/2 lines; of the wings 6-7 lines.
Gen. ADRAMA, n. g.
_Mas. Corpus_ longiusculum. _Caput_ thorace vix latius, setis duabus
posticis erectis. _Antennae_ sat longae; articulus tertius linearis,
apice conicus; arista pubescens. _Abdomen_ sublineare, thorace longiu
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