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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A family of two-winged flies, belonging to the Muscidæ acalyptratæ, having a complete neuration, the front with a single row of bristles on each side, and a small erect bristle on the outer side before the end of the tibia. Lonchæa and Sapromyza are the principal genera.

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