INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA CHAEACTERS UNDESCRIBED INSECTS THE COLLECTION WILLIAM WILSON SAUNDERS, ESQ., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. Vol. I. DIPTERA.— By FRANCIS WALKER, F.L.S. LONDON : JOHN VAN VOORST, PATERNOSTER ROW. M.DCCC.LVI. -1' -H LONDON": V n I N I' K I) 11 Y K U VV A R D N E W M A N, y, Devonshire SlrRft, nishopsgate, PREFACE In the present volume will be found chai'acters of nearly all the unclescribcd species of Dipterous Insects in mj' collection which had been received to the end of the year 1854. Mr. F. Walker, a' gentleman well known for his intimate acquaintance with this Order of Insects, has supplied the whole of the Manuscript. The Plates have been furnished by Mr. Wkstwood, whose entomo- logical knowledge and slcill in the delineation of Insects are universally admitted. I'o both I tender my best thanks. W. WILSON SAUNDERS. East Hill, Wiiiulswoilh, Jan. I81I1, 1850. INSECTA SAUNDERSTANA, &c Fam. XYLOPHAGI. This family is allied to the Xylotomoe, the Asilici and the Stratiomyda; : it contains five genera, Beris, Diphysa, Xylophagus, Subula, and Meto- ponia, to which six more are here added. XYLOPHAGUS, Meiy. X. triangularis? Say. Xylophagus pebsequus, Fcm. Nige^r, tkorace fulvo pubescente, antennis nigris, pedibus flavis, femm-ibus posticis fulvis, tibiis tarsisque pnsticis piceis basi fuMs, alis subci- nereis apice fttscis. Body black: eyes pitchy, fore part flat, its facets much larger than those elsewhere ; sucker, palpi and feelers black ; feelers more than twice the length of the head ; third joint much longer than the fourth ; fourth and following to the ninth short, nearly equal ; tenth longer : chest co- vered with tawny down : abdomen linear, thinly clothed with hoary hairs, a little narrower than the chest and rather more than twice its length : legs yellow ; tips of the feet pitchy ; claws black ; foot-cushions tawny ; hind- thighs tawny ; hind-shanks pitchy, tawny at the base ; hind-feet black, first joint tawny, with the exception of the tip : wings very slightly tinged with gray, their tips brown ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base, slightly clouded with brown, which is most prevalent on the cross- veins of the disk ; brand brown ; tip cross-vein short, with two curves, the first upward, extremely slight, the second downward, slight ; poisers pale tawny. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 9 lines. North America. p ■•: tSSECTA SAUNDEBSIANA. SUBULA, Mary. X. fasciatus, Uarnslon, C. D. B. M. 128. X. reflccteiis, Wlh. C. D. O. M. 129. INOPUS, n. g. Allied to Boris, but the scutcheon has no .spines, and the little tip cross-vein of the wing is wanting. Inopus despeotus, n. s., Mas., Plate I. fig. 7. Fusctis, capite subtus, sculelli margine ahdominisqne apicefulvis, antennU piveis, pcdibus fuhis, tarsis piceis, alis cinereis. Body brown, clothed with short tawny hairs : head beneath, hind bor- tler of the scutcheon and tip of the abdomen tawny : eyes black, meeting on the crown : feeler.s pitchy ; second joint not half the length of the first ; third and following joints forming a spindle-shaped club which is a little longer and broader than the first joint: abdomen linear, flat, a little nar- rower than the chest, and nearly twice its length : legs tawny ; feet pitchy : wings gray ; wing-ribs tiiwny ; veins brown ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 2i lines ; of the wings 6 lines. PHYCUS, n. g. First joint of the feelers extremely long ; second short, not more than one-eighth of the length of the first ; third spindle-shaped, full half the length of the first ; fourth conical, extremely small ; abdomen compressed. Phycus canescens, Plate I. fig. 5. X. canescens, Wlk. C. D. B. M. 129. DIMASSUS, u. g. First joint of the feelers lery long ; second very short, not more than one-sixth of the length of the first ; third spindle-shaped, rather more than half the length of the first; fourth very small, conical, terminating in a bristle, not longer than the second. X. latistria, Wlk. C. D. B. M. 130. X. terminalis, Wlk. C. D. B. M. 129. The characters which I liave published of the last species arc defective, owing to the imperfect state of tlie specimen examined, and therefore it is here described again. DiMASSUS lERMINALIS, Plate I. fig. G. Mas. Niger, lateribus scutelli margine abdominisque apicc ferrugineU, abdominis segmentorum viarginibus posticis albis, antennis pedibus- que ferrugineis, tarsis nigris, alts subcinereis fusco bi/asciatii. Body black : head adorned with white lustre, beset behind with black bristles, clothed beneath with hoary hairs ; eyes pitchy, fore part flat, its facets hardly larger than those elsewhere : sucker black ; palpi tawny, clothed with black liairs ; feelers ferruginous ; first and second joints beset with black bristles: chest adorned with two gray stipes, its sides and the hind border of the scutcheon ferruginous: abdomen dull black, adorned with gray lustre, slightly decreasing in breadth from the base to the tip, clothed on each side with white hairs, about twice the length of the chest ; sides and tip ferruginous, the latter clothed with black hairs ; hind borders of the segments white : legs ferruginous ; hips black, tinged with gray ; shanks beset with a few black bristles ; feet black ; four hinder feet yellow at the base; foot-cushions tawny: wings gray, slightly tinged towards the hind border with pale brown, adorned with two liroad dark brown bands, the second extending near to the tip ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base and along part of the fore border ; tip cross-vein very slightly curved upward till near the tip, where it has a short and equally slight downward curve ; poisers tawny, their knobs dingy yellow, 1)lack towards the base. Length of the body .5 — f>i lines ; of the wings 8— J) lines. New South Wales. DiMAssus Divisus, Mas. Niger, abdomine basi fulvo, antennis nigris, pedibus futvis, tibiis piceis basi fuhis, tarsis nigris basi albis, alis limpidis cinerco trifasciatis ad costam subfulvis. Body black, shining : sucker, palpi and feelers black : feelers a little longer than the head ; first and second joints beset with short black bris- tles : eyes red ; all the facets very small : abdomen cylindrical, nearly twice the length of the chest ; first, second and third segments bright tawny : legs tawny ; shanks beset with a few short black bristles, pitchy for two-thirds of the length from the tips ; feet black ; first joint white, with the exception of the base, which is pitchy ; foot-cushions tawny : wings colourless, with a slight tawny tinge along the fore border, adorned with three broad dark gray bands ; the third extends nearly to the tip, and is 4 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. broader and paler than the first or the second ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny along the fore border ; lip cross-vein with two very slight curves, the first upward, the second downward ; poisers pitchy, with yellow knobs. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 4j lines. DIALYSIS, n. g. First and second joints of the feelers short ; second a little shorter than the first ; third conical, not longer than the second ; fourth like a bristle, downy, much longer than all the three preceding. Dialysis dissimilis. Fern. (Xylophagus Amcrieanus ? Cat. Dipt. B. M. 128.) Fulims, capite albo micante, thorace fusco trivittato, abdominis mavuHs trignnis apiceque piceis, antennis fuscis basi fnlvis, pedibvs fulvis, tarsis piceis, alis subfuscis. Body tawny, clothed with short tawny hairs : head adorned with white lustre : eyes red, parted above by a very narrow interval : sucker and palpi dark tawny : feelers brown ; first and second joints tawny : chest adorned with three brown stripes, its sides in front and the breast whitish : abdomen more than twice the length of the chest, tapering to the tip ; each segment adorned with a pitchy, nearly triangular band ; the latter segments all pilchy : legs pale tawny ; feet pitchy ; claws black : wings pale brown, with a slight tawny tinge, darker along the veins ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins brown, tawny towards the base ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 7 lines. CYCLOTELUS, n. g. First joint of the feelers very long ; second very short ; third and following forming a compound joint, which is as long as the first and com- pressed at the tip ; tip of the abdomen of the female armed as in the Asilici with a circlet of spines. CyCLOTELUS NIGnOFLAMMA, Fcni. Niger, capite cano, thorace citiereo-fulvo pubescente, abdomine argcnteo imifasciato ajnce ferrugineo, antennis ferrugineis, pedibus piceis, tibiis anlerinribus tarsisquc poslerioribvs fulvis, alis limpidis anlice fulvis posiici; dncreis nigro-unifascialis. Body black : head hoary and beset with black bristles behind, clothed with black hairs beneath : eyes pitcliy, fore part rather flat, its facets a little larger than those elsewhere : palpi pitchy : feelers dark ferruginous, hardly longer than the head : chest indistinctly striped with grayish tawny down : abdomen cylindrical, about twice the length of the chest ; hind border of the third segment adorned with a silvery band ; tip ferruginous, armed with a circlet of short black spines : legs pitchy ; four front-shanks and four hinder feet tawny, tips of the latter pitchy ; claws black ; foot- cushions yellow : wings colourless, bright tawny along the veins beneath the fore border towards the base, gray along the hind border and at the tip, adorned at two-thirds of the length with a blackish band which fades towards the hind border ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, tawny for half the length from the base ; tip cross-vein long, with two curves, the fust upward and slight, the other downward and more distinct ; poisers pitchy. Length of the body 5i lines ; of the wings 9^ lines. South America. Cyclotelus puuiNosus, Plate I. fig. 4. Mas. Niger cano micans, thorace fusco pubescente, abdomine piceo (fem. apice femigineo), antennis nigris basi fulvis, ])edibus nigro-piceis, tibiis anterioribus tarsisque poslcrioribus fulvis, alis subfuscis ad cos- tam subfulvis, fusco unifasciatis. Body black, adorned with hoary lustre : head beset behind with black bristles, clothed beneath with black hairs : eyes adorned with iridescent semicircles, nearly flat in front, where the facets are larger than those else- where : sucker and palpi black ; tip of the sucker pitchy and clothed with tawny hairs : feelers black, verj' much longer than the head; first joint tawny, clothed with short black hairs : chest indistinctly striped with pale brown down : abdomen cylindrical, pitchy, very much longer than the chest; second, third and fourth segments impressed with cross rows of little punctures ; appendages of the tip tawny ; tip of the female ferrugi- nous, armed with a circlet of short black spines : legs pitchy black ; knees, four hinder feet towards the base, and four front-shanks tawny ; claws black ; foot-cushions pale tawny : wings pale brown, with a tawny tinge along the fore border, and having at two-thirds of the length a broad brown band which fades towards the hind border ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, tawny towards the base and along the fore border ; tip cross- vein like that of C. nigroflamma ; poisers pitchy. Leugtli of the body 4 3 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. South America. INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. CycLOTELUS socius, Fein. Niger cano micans, thorace fusco pilis fulvis vestito, abdomine subtiis apicem versus fulveseenle, antennis nigrii basi fulvis, pedibus piceis, libiis anlerioribus tarsisque posterioribus fulvis, tarsis anlicis nigris lalis, alts subcinercis basi subfulvis nigro-unifasciatis. Body black : liead adorned with hoary lustre, beset behind with black bristles, clothed beneath with black hairs : eyes adorned with iridescent simicircles, nearly flat in front, where the facets are larger than those else- where: sucker pitchy, clothed with tawny hairs ; palpi black, beset with short black bristles : chest and breast tinged with hoary ; disk of the chest brown, clothed with short tawny hairs, its sides beset with a few black bristles: abdomen cylindrical, full twice the length, thinly clothed with tawny hairs, adorned with a hoary tinge above and witli a tawny tinge be- neath towards the tip, which is ferruginous and armed with a circlet of short ferruginous spines : legs pitchy, thinly beset with short black bristles ; four front-shanks and four hinder feet tawny, tips of the latter pitchy ; fore-feet black, broad ; claws black ; foot-cushions pale tawny : wings pale gray, wiih a slight dull tawny tinge towards the base, and adorned at two- thirds of the length with a broad black band which fades towards the hind border ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, tawny towards the base ; tip cross-vein like that of C. nigrnflamma ; poisers pitchy. Length of the body 4i lines ; of the wings 7 lines. South America. CvcLOTEi.us i,.«Tus, Fcm. Niger glauco micans, thorace fulvo pubescente, abdominis segmentis poste- rioribus omnind nigris apice ferrugineo, antennis piceis basi fidvis, pcdibus fulvis, iarsis anlicis nigris latis, alis obscure fulvis nigra unifasciatis. Body black, adorned with bluish-white lustre : eyes adorned with iri- descent circles, nearly flat in front, where the facets are larger than those elsewhere : sucker pitchy, clothed with tawny hairs ; palpi black : feelers pitchy, longer than the head ; first joint tawny, with a pitchy tip : chest in- distinctly striped with tawny down : abdomen cylindrical, veiy much longer than the chest, thinly clothed with hoary hairs ; latter segments black, clothed with tawny hairs, which are most frequent at the ferruginous tip : legs Itright tawny, thiidy clothed with short tawny hairs ; tips of the feet and foreknccs pitchy ; claws black ; foot-cushions dingy white; fore- feet black, broad : wings (lurk tawny, liaving at two-thirds of the length a broad black band which fades towards the hind border ; wing-ribs and veins dark tawny ; tip cross-vein like that of C. nigroflamma ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 7 lines. South America. NONACRIS, n. g. Antennse septem-articulata; ; articulus 2us lo multo longior ; 3us et scquentes breves : alls vena transversa apicalis nulla ; areolis una discoi- dalis, subniarginalis una, posticrc quatuor ; 4ta clausa Feclei's seven-jointed ; second much longer than the first; third and following joints short: no tip cross-vein in the wing ; one discoidal areolet ; one submarginal areolet ; four posterior areolets, the fourth closed before the border. NONACHIS IRANSEQUA, Mas. Fulvus, antennis nigris hasi fulvis, pedibus fuMs, tarsis apice piceis, alis fiilvis. Body tawny : eyes pitchy, convex, meeting on the crown ; facets small : eyelets forming a little triangle : feelers black, clothed with short black hairs ; first and second joints tawny ; third and fourth dark tawny : chest clothed with short yellow hairs : abdomen linear, flat, a little nar- rower than the chest and full twice its length : legs tawny, rather long and slender, especially the hind pair ; shanks darker than the thighs ; feet pitchy towards the tips ; foot-cushions pale tawny ; wings and wing-ribs tawny ; veins pitchy, tawny towards the base; poisers tawny, rather long. Length of the body 4^ lines ; of the wings 9 lines. South America. Fam. TABANII. PANGONIA, Laireille. The species of this genus are not very numerous, but it contains se- veral groups or subgenera, for which the following names are proposed. NUCERIA. Among the characters of this division the length of the sucker is most apparent ; the chest is slightly striped ; the abdomen is more or less 8 INSKCTA SAUNDERSIANA. tawny, with a black stripe on the back : the tip cross-vein of the wiug has a short stump, or the subraarginal areolet is partly divided. 1. longirostris 4. gulosa 2. Amboinensis 5. varicolor 3. rostiata FiDENA. Much resembles Nuceria, but the characters are modified ; the sucker is generally shorter, the chest and the abdomen are not striped, the latter is tawny : the tip cross-veinh as no stump ; the posterior subraarginal areolet is closed. 1. leucopogon 3. sorbens 2. basalis 4. nana DiCBANiA, Macquart. Distinguished from Fidcna by the third feeler-joint, which is armed with a long horn, 1. comprehensa Melpia. The sucker varies from half the length to the whole length of the body : the abdomen is very broad : tlie colour of the body and of the wings is usually dark ; the tip cross-vein has no stump.. 1. rufohirta 6. eriomera 2. nigrohirta 7. Besckii 3. fulvithorax 8. exeuns 4. piceohirta 9. tenuistria 5. badia SCAPTIA. Distinguished by the stout convex body, and by the robust sucker, which is hardly longer than the head: the colour is black, adorned with patches of yellow or tawny hairs : the tip cross-vein has no stump ; the posterior subraarginal areolet is open in the male, closed in the feraale. 1. aurata 4. patula 2. auriflua? 6. plana 3. solida 6. crassa Pangonia. The sucker is short and stout, hardly exceeding the length of the head ; the body is stout and square-shaped ; the stump on the angle of the tip cross-vein is rudimentary or none ; the posterior submarginal areolet is closed in both sexes. 1. guttata 3. submacula 2. media 4. marginata Tacina. Seems to connect Fidena with Pangonia : the mouth is more slender tliaii that of Pangonia, and full twice tlie length of the head : the body is more slender and rounded : the stump on the angle of the tip cross-vein is rather long. 1. micans 3. ferruginea 2. maculata Phaiu. Allied to Tacina, but the mouth is rather shorter and stouter ; the body is somewhat thicker ; the wings arc generally shorter. 1. melanopyga 10. cingulata 2. chrysostigma 11. alboatra 3. crassipalpis 12. obesa 4. lateralis 13. adjuncta 5. varicolor 14. conjuncta (>. angulata 15. barbata 7. multifaria 16. leucomelas 8. spiloptera 17. sexfasciata 9. atricornis 18. bifasciata Clams. Resembles Fidena, but the mouth is shorter and stouter, though longer than that of Pangonia. 1. contigua 7. concolor 2. inconspicua 8. constans 3. gemina 9. mediocris 4. quadrimacula 10. Lerda 5. Winthemi 11. Adrel 6. Jacksonii 12. divisa 10 INSECTA SAUNDEItSIANA. 13. t'ulvifascia 16. conjuiigens 14. tricolor 17. gibbula 15. gemella 18. parva OSCA. Allied to Pangonia, but distinguished by the short wings, and by the shape of the abdomen, which is rather flat, aud increases in breadth from the base to tlic tip ; the latter is truncated . 1. depressa 2. albithorax Philoliche, Hoffmamegg. Has long wings, a ratlier narrow body, and a short but somewhat slender mouth ; there is a rather long stump on the angle of tlic tip cross- vein ; the abdomen is spindle-shaped. 1. fuseipennis 4. fusiformis 2. notabilis 6. viridiventris 3. umbra SCIONE. Allied to Fidena : the first and fourth posterior areolets, and the first inferior areolet are closed near the border, the second and third posterior areolets are partly united ; the angle of the tip cross-vein is very straiglit and has no stump : the mouth is slender, and about half the length of the body. 1. incompleta Plinthina. Allied to Clanis, but distinguished by the spot on the fore border of the wing, and by the shortness of the areolet, whose side veins are united and form a long petiole. 1. macroporum SCARPHIA. Allied to Phara, but the tip cross-vein is short, has no stump, and is almost straight, its angle being very indistinct. 1. directa Allied to Philoliclic, but approaching still iicuier to Tabanus ; third joint of tho feelers small, convex above and beneath ; compound joint long, slender, tapering, curved upward : stump of the tip cross-vein about twice the length of the shorter side of the angle vphence it springs. 1. Roei 2. lurida Panoonia nana, JVTas. Fulva, thorace ferrvgineo, palpis fulvis apice nigris, antennis pedibusque fulvis, alts subcinereis ad costam fulvis. This species will form a subdivision of the group, for the posterior submarginal arcolet is very short, being closed at one-fourth of its length from the border. Body tawny, clothed with short tawny hairs : head thickly clothed beneath with white hairs : upper region of the eyes reddish- brown, flat, composed of very large facets, clothed with tawny hairs ; lower region brassy, convex, composed of very small facets, clothed with white hairs : sucker black, nearly as long as the body, pitchy at the base ; palpi tawny with black tips, a little shorter than the feelers : feelers tawny ; first joint twice the length of the second ; third twice the length of the fii-st ; fourth slightly curved, composed of six divisions, of which the first, second, third and fourth are short ; the fifth is much longer than the fourth ; the sixth is near twice the length of the fifth : chest ferruginous : abdomen ob- conical, longer and a little broader than the chest : legs tawny, clothed with short tawny hairs ; feet darker towards the tips ; claws black : wings slightly gray, tawny along the fore borders ; wing-ribs and veins tawny ; veir.s pitchy towards the tips ; scales and poisers tawny. Length of the body 4 J lines ; of the wings 12 lines. Brazil. Panoonia comprehensa, Plate I. fig. 2. Nigro-fusca, abdominis apice ventreque fulvis, antennis ferrugineis, pedibits fulvis, alisfuscis. Body deep brown, clothed with short hairs of the same colour : head beneath tawny and clothed with tawny hairs : eyes coppery, divided, as usual in the males, into one region of large and another of small facets : sucker twice the length of the body ; palpi black, clothed with short black hairs: feelers i)alc ferruginous ; first and second joints clothed with short INSECTA SAUNDEIiSIANA. tawny bristles; lioiii longer than the third joint whence it springs, curved downward, beset wilh long black bristles; compound joint much curved upward, not so compact as is usual, but long and slender, and composed of joints of equal size: abdomen much broader but not longer than the chest, tawny beneath ; the tip bright tawny above, clothed beneath with pale yellow hairs : legs tawny ; feet brown towards the tips ; claws black : wings pale brown, darker along the fore border and at the base ; wing- ribs and veins tawny; tip cross-vein forming an obtuse angle near the base ; posterior submarginal areolet closed at some distance from the border ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. Para. Pangonia exeuns, Fem. Ferrugineu, thoracis disco piceo, abdomine rufo, palpisfuhis, anterinisfer- rugineis hasi fulvis apice niijris, pedibus fernigineis, alls szibcinereis ad costam fulvis. Body pale ferruginous, clothed with tawny hairs : head thickly clothed beneath with yellow hairs ; eyes black, clothed with tawny hairs ; fore part flat, its facets not larger than those elsewhere : sucker black, nearly half the length of the body ; palpi tawny, triangular, very short ; lancets ferru- ginous : feelers ferruginous with black tips ; first and second joints tawny, short, beset with black bristles ; third joint narrower than the first and the second, diminishing towards the tip ; the following joints are closely united with the third, and appear like a single one which is pointed and slightly curved, and whose divisions successively decrease in breadth : disk of the chest pitchy : abdomen dark red, oval, shining, nuich longer and broader than the chest ; sides clothed with black hairs ; hind borders of the seg- ments clothed on each side with tawny hairs : legs ferruginous, clothed with short black hairs ; hind legs darker than the two other pair ; foot- cushions pale tawny ; claws black : wings slightly gray, tawny along the fore border for three-fourths of the length ; wing-ribs and veins tawny ; tips of the veins black ; scales and poisers tawny. Length of tlie body 6 lines; of the wings 15 lines. Brazil. 13 Pangonia submacula, C. D. B.M. 142. Nigra fulvo pubescens, capitis vertice piceo vittato, thoracis lateiibus Jlavo nif/roque pilosis, abdmnine utrinque fasciculis niyris albisque ornato, scfftnenti 4i margine postico albo fasciculato, palpis fulvis, antennis ferruffineis, pedibus piceis, alis subcinereis, basi casta venarumqiie marginibut subfulvis. Fern. Body black : head covered with tawny down, thickly clothed be- hind and beneath with pale yellow hairs ; a pitchy stripe on the crown : eyes pitchy ; fore part rather flat ; facets very small : sucker black ; palpi tawny : feelers ferruginous, clothed at the base with black hairs : chest slightly covered with tawny down, clothed on each side with black, and more thickly wilh pale yellow hairs: abdomen adorned on each side with alternate patches of black and white hairs ; a patch of white hairs on the hind border of the fourth segment ; legs pitchy, clothed with short black liairs ; foot-cushions dark tawny : wings slightly gray, somewhat tawny at the base on the fore border and along the borders of the veins ; wing-ribs and veins pitchy ; scales dark. tawny ; poisers pale tawny with black knobs. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. West Australia. Very much resembles P. marginata, but its veins are darker and more strongly marked, and the tip cross-vein is more curved. Pangonia alboatra, Plate I. fig. 3. Nigra, capile antico ferrugineo, abdomine fasciculis albis ornato, antennis pedibtisque tiigris, alis fusco-cinereis. Fern. Body black : head ferruginous in front : eyes pitchy ; fore part slightly convex, its facets very small : moutli and feelers black : abdomen adorned witli a large, transverse, half-elliptical spot of silvery white down on the hind border of the second segment ; a small patch of white hairs on each side of the hind border of the fourth and fifth segments: legs black, clotlied with short black hairs : wings gray, tinged with brown, which dis- appears along the hind border; wing-ribs and veins ferruginous ; scales dark tawny. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. Cape. INSECTA SAUNDEBSIANA. Panoonia OBESA. Nigra, fuho hirta, capUe subtus flavo-piloso, abdominis segnientorum mar- ginibvs poslicis albo Jimbriaiis, palpis fnlvis, pedibus piecis, alts fusco-subcinereis. Fern. Body black: head covered above with shining yellowish-white down, clothed beneath with pale yellow hairs : eyes pitchy: sucker pitchy, more than half the length of the body ; palpi tawny ; lancets ferruginous : feelers ferruginous ? : chest and breast clothed with tawny hairs : abdomen nearly elliptical, longer and broader than the chest ; a fringe of white hairs along the hind border of the second segment, and on each side of the hind border of the following segments: legs dark pitchy: wings slightly gray, tinged with brown ; wing-ribs and veins tawny ; scales whitish with pale yellow borders ; poisers pitchy. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. Cape. Panoonia concolob, Fem. Teslacea , peclore vcntreque canesceiitibus, antennis fuhis apice nigris, pe- dibus fulvis, alis cinereis ad costam subfuivis basi timpidis ftiscoque subfasciatis. Body testaceous, clothed with very short ta.wny hairs : head clothed beneath with whitish hairs ; eyes brassy, clothed with tawny hairs ; fore part nearly flat, its facets very little larger than those elsewhere : mouth black, as long as the chest : palpi and feelers tawny ; first joint of the feelers clothed with long black hairs, second with long black hairs ; com- pound joint curved upward, tapering to the tip, which is black and beset with a few black bristles : breast covered with a hoary tinge, clothed with whitish hairs : abdomen obconical, broader and longer than the chest ; under side with a hoary tinge towards the base, which is clothed with whitish hairs, and impressed with a cross row of little punctures : legs tawny, thinly clothed with short black hairs ; spines of the shanks dark tawny ; claws black : wings gray for two-thirds of the length from the tip, thence to the base colourless, with a tawny tinge along the fore border, and adorned with a broad slightly oblique brown band, which extends from the fore border to the middle of the disk ; wing-ribs, veins and poisers testaceous ; stump of the tip cross-vein short, proceeding from an DIPTERA. 15 obtuse angle ; posterior subinargiiial areolet open on the border. Length of the body 6i lines ; of the wings 16 lines. New Holland. Pangonia constans, Fem. Fusca, capita anlice abdomineque fulvis, hujus vilta interrupta apiceqve piceis, antennis rufis apice nigris, pedibus fulvis, tarsis piceis, alls fulvo-subcinereis. Body dark brown : head tawny in front, whitish, and clothed with white hairs beneath : eyes black, clothed with tawny hairs : mouth black, nearly as long as the chest : palpi ferruginous : feelers red ; compound joint hardly curved upward, tapering from the base to the tip, which is black, and beset with a few short black bristles: chest clothed with tawny hairs ; sides and breast clothed with longer whitish hairs : abdomen tawny, elliptical, broader but hardly longer than the chest, clothed with short tawny hairs ; the back adorned with a pitchy stripe, which is inter- rupted on the hind border of each segment, and extends to the sides of the fourth, fifth, and sixth segments ; under side with a whitish tinge : legs dark tawny ; thighs clothed with long whitish hairs ; shanks and feet thickly clothed with short black hairs ; spines of the shanks tawny ; feet pitchy ; claws black ; foot-cushions pale tawny : wings slightly gray, with a dark tawny tinge beneath the fore border and along some of the veins of the disk ; wing-ribs dark tawny ; veins black, dark tawny towards the base ; tip cross-vein slightly curved at the base, but having no angle nor stump ; posterior submarginal areolet very open on the border ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. Tasmania. Pangonia Jacksonii, C. D. B. M. 140. Var. Fem. Nigra fiavo-hirta, abdomine ferrugineo, vilta apiceque nigris, palpis antennisque ferrugineis, pedibus nigris, femoribus apice tibiis- que ferrugineis, alis subcinereis basi costaque fulvis, disci nervo trans- verso fusco marginato. Body black : head covered with hoary down, thickly clothed behind and beneath with pale yellow hairs : eyes black : sucker black, full half the length of the body ; palpi ferruginous : feelers ferruginous, darker to- wards the tips : chest, sides and breast clothed with pale yellow hairs : ab- domen ferruginous ; a black interrupted stripe on the middle of the back, ]{> INSKCTA SAUNDERSIANA. hind purl black : thif>hs black with Icniigiuous tij).s ; shanks ferruginous ; feet black ; font-cushions pitchy ; wings slightly gray ; base and fore border tawny ; a short brown band clouding the sides of the cross-vein in the disk of the wing ; wing-ribs and veins pitchy ; scales yellowish ; poisers tawny. Length of the body fi lines; of the wings IS lines. West Australia. Pangonia Lekda, White, Zool. Voy. Erebus and Terror, Fern. Nigra, thoracis lateribvs ferrugineis, peelore cuno, abdomine ferrugineo vitta interrttpta nigra ornato, antmnis nigris hasi fulvis, pedibus fer- rugineis, alis cinereis basi casta nervorumque marginibus fuscis. Head pale yellow above, hoary and thickly clothed with pale yellow hairs beneath : a ferruginous club-shaped mark on the crown : eyes black, clothed with hoary hairs, parted above by a moderate interval ; the facets very small : sucker black, a little shorter than the chest ; lancets bright ferruginous ; palpi dark tawny, clothed with short black hairs : feelers black ; first and second joints tawny ; first beset with black bristles ; third ferruginous ; compound joint curved upward, lapering from the base to the tip, much longer than the three preceding joints : chest black ; sides fer- ruginous, clothed with tawny hairs : breast hoary, clothed with tawny hairs ; abdomen ferruginous, obconical, a little broader and longer than the chest, clothed with tawny hairs, which are chiefly on the hind borders of the segments; the back adorned by an interrupted black stripe which is widened on the fore borders of the segments : legs ferruginous ; hips and thighs thinly clothed with long pale hairs ; shanks and feet covered with pale down ; four hinder thighs tipped with spines ; claws black : wings gray, brown at the base, beneath the fore borders and along the veins ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black, i)itchy at the base and along the fore bor- der ; angle of the tip cross-vein obtuse, distinct ; scales gray, with darker borders; poisers tawny. Length of the body fij lines ; of the wings 14 lines. New Zealand. Pangonia Adrel, While, Zool. Voy. Erebv.vith pitchy borders ; poisers pitchy. Length of the body 5j lines ; of the wings 1 1 lines. Columbia. Tabanus PEiiPLEXus, Fcm. Niger, capite piceo, thoracis abdominisque basi lateribus rufls, anicnnis rufis apice nigris, tibiis anterioribus rufis apice nigris, alis fulvis, apice margiticque postico cinereo-fuscis. Body black : head pitchy, covered with brownish tawny bloom, clothed beneath with white hairs and black bristles : eyes brassy, large, parted by a very narrow interval on the crown : sucker black ; lancets pale red : palpi tawny : feelers red ; first and second joints produced into short horns, the first stout and blunt, the second slender and acute ; tip of the third joint black, its horn curved downward and very long : sides of the chest red : breast clothed with tawny hairs : abdomen shining, obconical, longer than the chest, red on each side at the base : legs black ; fore- and middle-shanks red, with black tips ; hind-shanks fringed with short black hairs ; foot-cushions tawny ; wings dark tawny, which colour passes into grayish-brown at the tips and along the hind border ; wing-ribs and veins ferruginous ; veins pitchy towards the tips ; tip cross-vein forming a very distinct, slightly obtuse angle near the base where there is no stump ; scales dark tawny ; poisers pitchy, with ferruginous knobs. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 22 lines. Columbia. Tabanus BASi-aui'u.s, Fern. Niger, capite rufo maculato sublus fulvo, scutelU margine postico abdo- minisque basi rufis,' antennis basi ferrugineis, pedibm rufis, alis cinereis ad costam subferrugineis. Body black : head pitchy above, with a large red spot in front of the crown, dark tawny, and thickly clothed with long pale yellow hairs in front and beneath : eyes brassy, clothed with tawny hairs, parted by a mo- derately broad interval on the crown, which is clothed with short black DIPTEKA. 33 hairs : sucker hhifk, clothed with short tawny Imirs ; lancets ferruginous ; palpi tawny, rather large : feelers black, first joint ferruginous, armed with a short horn ; horn of the third joint long, curved downward : chest and 1)reast clothed with tawny hairs, which are most thick on the breast ; hind border of the scutcheon red: abdomen nearly ohconical, a little broader and longer than the chest, red towards the base : legs dark red ; feet pitchy ; claws black : foot-cushions tawny ; hind-shanks fringed with short l)lack hairs: wings gray, with a ferruginous tinge at the base and along the fore border for most of the length ; cross-veins slightly clouded with brown ; tip cross-vein forming a distinct obtuse anyle near the base where there is no stum]) ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, ferruginous at the base and along part of the fore border; scales blackish; poiscrs tawny. Length of the body 7^ lines ; of the wings 17 lines. Columbia. Tabanus hibtitibia, Fern. Niger, thoracis lateribus abdomineqtteferrugineis, hujas vitta dorsad nigra, antennis basi pedibusgue nigris, tibiis ferntgineis, tarsis posterioribus piceis, tibiis posticis nigra ciliatis, alis nigro-cinereis, basi casta re- narurnque marginibus flava-fuscis. Body black : head covered with yellowish brown, clothed with dull tawny hairs ; a slender, shining, black ridge along the whole length of the crown : eyes dark bronze, parted above by a moderately broad interval ; all the facets very small ; sucker black ; lancets pale ferruginous ; palpi dark tawny, clothed with short black hairs ; first and second joints of feelers black : chest partly ferruginous and thinly clothed with tawny hairs on each side : abdomen deep ferruginous, very slightly ohconical, a little broader and much longer than the chest, adorned above with a black stripe, which is interrupted on the hind borders of the segments towards the tij) ; sides and hind borders of the segments clothed with short black hairs ; under side paler : legs black, thickly clothed with pale yellow hairs ; shanks and feet clothed with short black hairs ; shanks very dark ferrugi- nous ; feet pitchy ; claws and fore-feet black ; foot-cushions tawny ; hind- shauks fringed with rather long black hairs ; win^s dark gray, yellowish brown at the base and beneath the fore border and along the borders of the veins ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, ferruginous at the base and occasionally in the disk ; angle af the tip cross-vein very distinct, slightly obtuse, sending forth (on one wing only of the insect described) a short F 34 INSECTA SAUNDEKSIANA. stump ; scales dark gray ; poisers tawny with yellow knobs. Lengtli ol the body S lines ; of the wings 17 lines. Columbia. Tabanus adustus, Fem. Piceus, thorach lateribtis ferrugineis, abdomine nigrn-piceo, kUerihts bad ferrugineis, segrnentorum marginihus posticis fulvis, antennis pedi- busque nigris, tibiis ferrugineis, alts suhcinereis bast casta venarum- que marginihus subfulvis. Body pitchy : head above covered with tawny bloom, excepting a shining, reddish-brown, middle stripe ; fore part adorned with a golden covering ; under side clothed with pale yellow hairs ; eyes dark bronze, parted above by a moderately broad interval ; all the fecets very small ; sucker black ; lancets ferruginous ; palpi dark tawny, pitchy above : feelers black ; horn of the third joint long, slightly curved : chest clothed with short tawny hairs, dark ferruginous on each side ; breast tinged with gray, clothed with longer yellow hairs : abdomen pitchy-black, obconical, much longer than the chest, ferruginous on each side at the base ; hind borders of the segments tawny : legs black, clothed with short black hairs ; shanks very dark ferruginous : wings pale gray, tawny at the base and be- neath the fore borders, and with a slight tawny tinge along the borders of the veins ; wing-ribs and veins ferruginous, the latter black towards the tips ; a slight curve with no angle nor stump near the base of the tip cross- vein ; scales dull dark tawny ; poisers ferruginous with tawny knobs. Length of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 1 8 lines. Columbia. Tabanus simplex, Fem. Niger, thoracis lateribus ahdomineque ferrugineis, hujus apice piceo, an- tennis basi fulvis, pedibtts ferrugineis, femoribvs anticis tarsisque nigris, alis subcinereis, basi costa venarumque marginibus subfulvis. Body black : head pitchy above, tawny in front, clothed beneath with whitish hairs: eyes bronze, parted by a rather broad interval on the crown ; all the facets very small : sucker black ; lancets ferruginous ; palpi tawny : fust and second joints of the feelers tawny ; first joint black and pro- jecting at the tip : sides of the chest ferruginous ; breast tinged with gray. DIPTERA. 35 inutly clotlicd with pale yellow hairs : abdomen feriuginous, obconical, pitchy towards the tip, very much longer than the chest : legs ferruginous, clothed with short black hairs : feet black, dark ferruginous towards the base ; foot-cushions tawny ; fore-thighs black ; wings pale gray, with a tawny tinge at the base and beneath the fore border and along the borders of the veins ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, ferruginous towards the base ; a disCinct but vert/ obtuse anyle with no stump near the base of the tip cross-vein ; scales dark tawny, with pitchy border's ; poisers tawny with yellow tips. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 13 lines. Columbia. Tauanus discifkh, Plate 2, fig. 2. Fern. Nigro-cinereus, thoracis lateribus vittisque tribiis ferrugineis, ahdo- viine fasciculis albis Irivittalo, antennis nigris basi fulvis, pedibus nigris, alts subnigris, basi el ad costam ferrugineis, cellularum discis apicibusquc cinereis. Body black : covering of the head dark tawny above, tawny in front and beneath where it is clothed with pale tawny hairs ; a slender, shining, pitchy ridge along the whole length of the crown : eyes large, bronze, parted above by a very narrow interval ; facets very small, but increasing in size towards the inner fore border: sucker black, clothed with tawny hairs ; lancets pitchy ; palpi dark tawny, thickly clothed with very short lilack hairs : feelers black, long, fir.st and second joints dark tawny, clothed with black hairs above, with pale tawny hairs beneath ; third joint dark tawny towards the base, its horn verg long, curved downward ; compound joint curved upward : chest tinged with gray, ferruginous on each side, adorned with three slender ferruginous stripes : breast tinged with grayish- tawny, partly cloihed with tawny hairs: abdomen obconical, a little broader and very much longer than the chest ; each side of every segment adorned with a patch of white hairs ; each hinder segment having also a middle patch of more indistinct white hairs : legs black ; thighs clothed wiih short whitish hairs ; shanks and feet clothed with short black hairs ; feet beneath dark ferraginous ; foot-cushions pale tawny: wings blackish, dark ferruginous at the base and along the fore border as far as the brand which is black ; disks of the areolcts and tips gray ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, ferruginous towards the base and along the fore border; curve of the lip cross-vein inclined to an angular form, no stump; scales dark 36 INSECTA SAUNDEBSIANA. gray with feniiKinous bonlers ; poisers pale brown, with yellowish wliite tips. Length of the body 10 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. Para. Tafianus pudens, Fern. Cinereo-fuscus, thorace vitlis tribmfulvis ornato, peclore eano, abdomine fusco vittis una albida duabmque fulvis oniato, antennis rufis basi fulvis apice nigris, pedibus fulvis, femoribus cinereis, tarsis piceis, tibiis tarsisqtte anticis nigris, tibiis anticis basi flavis, alls subci- nereis. Head tawny above, whitish in front and beneath where it is clothed with white hairs : eyes bronzed, parted above by a moderate interval : sucker black ; lancets pale ferruginous ; palpi pale yellow, clothed above with short black hairs : feelers pale red ; first and second joints tawny, clothed with black hairs; third joint deep, very convex beneath, its horn forming a slightly obtuse angle which occupies the whole side ; compound joint black, slender, tapering, curved upward, more than half the length of the third joint : chest grayish brown, adorned with three indistinct tawny stripes ; sides tawny, clothed with black hairs; breast hoary, clothed with white hairs : ahdomen obconical, brown, pitchy towards the tip, much longer than the chest, adorned with three stripes; the side stripes are tawny, composed of obliciue spots, and do not extend beyond the fourth segment; the middle stripe is narrow, linear, whitish, and has a tawny tinge towards the tip of the abdomen, which it nearly reaches ; under side tawny, tinged with gray, adorned with pitchy bands : legs tawny, clothed with vei-y short black hairs ; thighs gray, clothed with pale hairs ; tips of four hinder thighs tawny ; feet pitchy ; foot-cushions pale tawny ; claws, fore-shanks and fore-feet black ; fore-shanks pale yellow above, tawny be- neath for half the length from the base : wings pale gray ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny towards the base, angle of the tip a'oss-veiii dis- tinct, obtuse, bearing a little knob ; scales gray, with pitchy borders ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 6^ lines; of the wings 12 lines. Rio Janeiro. 37 Tabanus tuifascia, Mas. Nif/er, thoracis laWribtis fulvo unimaculatis, abdomine piceo basi ferruyi- neo, villa el segmcnlorum marginibus poalicis fulvis, anlennis ferru- gineis basi fulvis, jiedibus nigris, tibiis fuJ.vis, alis cinereis basi et ad costam fulvis. Body black : head thinly clothed beneath with pale yellow hairs : eyes divided into two distinct regions ; upper region dark red, composed of very large facets, occupying most of tlie surface ; fore region small, pitchy, composed of very small facets, confined to the sides of the eyes with the exception of a narrow band along the hind border : sucker deep black ; palpi yellow, clothed with pale yellow hairs, and towards the tip with black hairs: feelers pale ferruginous ; first and second joints tawny, clothed with short black hairs ; ihird wilh a slighl protuberance but no horn; compound juinl verg slightly curved : ehest and breast thinly clothed with short tawny hairs ; a dark tawny spot on each side at the base of the wing : ab- domen pitchy, obconical, a little narrower and very much longer than the chest, clothed with a few tawny hairs, ferruginous towards the base, adorned with a bright tawny stripe, which disappears near the base and the tip ; hind borders of the segments tawny : legs black, clothed with short black hairs ; shanks tawny with black tips ; tips of the thighs tawny ; feet lawny at the base ; foot-cushions dark tawny ; hind-thighs and fore-feet quite black ; fore-shanks tawny for half the length from the base, black thence to the tips : wings gray, dark tawny at the base and along the fore border; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, ferruginous towards the base ; angle of lip cross-vein slightly oblusc, stump of moderate length ; brand yellowish brown ; scales tawny ; poisers pitchy. Length of the body 4i lines ; of the wings 9 lines. Brazil. Tauanus litioiosus, Mas et Fem. Ferruginous, autfulvus, flavo varius, anlennis fulvis apice piceis, pedibus fulvis, alisfuscis fulvo maculatis, marginibus poslicis cinereis. Male. Body ferruginous : head light yellow in front, clothed with pale yellow hairs beneatli : eyes very large ; upper region pale brassy red, com- |)oscd of very large facets ; fore region dark , red, small, confined to the ;i8 INSECTA SAUNBERSIANA. sides of the eyes witli tlie exception of a narrow band along the hind border : sucker ferruginous, black towards the tip ; palpi tawny, and clothed wilh tawny hairs : feelers bright tawny ; first joint yellow, clothed with yellow hairs ; second clothed with black hairs ; third pitchy at the tip, its horn acute, vert/ short : chest thickly clothed with bright tawny hairs : breast tawny, with a hoary tinge : abdomen tawny, slightly obconical, fer- fuginous towards the tip, very much longer than the chest ; under side yellow with a tawny tip : legs tawny, clothed with short tawny hairs ; feet pitchy towards the tips ; claws black ; foot-cushions yellow : wings brown, darkest at the base, gray along the hind border for half tlie length from the base, colourless at the tips, adorned with a large tawny spot which extends from the fore border to the disk ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, partly fer- ruginous ; angle of the lip cross-vein strongly marked, slightly ohtme, sending forth a rather long stump ; scales brown ; poisers tawny. Fern. Head pale tawny in front, hoary, and clothed with white hairs beneath : eyes black, parted above by a rather broad interval ; all the facets very small : sucker black ; lancets pale ferruginous ; palpi yellow with black tips, longer than those of the male : feelers tiiwny, black to- wards the tips, darker, shorter and more curved than those of the male ; they are also wider at the base, and the horn is larger : chest tawny, thinly clothed with pale tawny hairs ; breast with a hoary tinge, partly clothed with white hairs : hind borders of abdominal segments yellow ; under side tawny, with a hoary tinge : legs tawny, clothed with short tawny hairs ; feet and ibre-shanks ferruginous ; fore-feet black : wings brown, gray at the tips and along the whole length of the hind border ; spot much smaller and less distinct than that of the male, and more gray than tawny ; stump of the tip cross-vein shorter in one wing than in the other of the specimen described. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. South America. Tabanus suiisenex, Mas. Piveus, capile cano, thoracis lateribus ferrugineis, abdomine rufo-fusco viltis tribus fulvis ornato, antennis ferrugineis basi fulms apice nigris, pedibus fiilvis fcrrugineo nigroque variis, alis cinereis basi et ad cos- tamfuUis. Head hoary and clothed with white hairs in front and beneath : eyes dark red, not divided into two regions, but the facets abo> e arc of moderate DIPTERA. 39 size, and larger than those elsewhere : sucker l)la<,'k ; ])al])i pale yellow, clothed with short black hairs : feelers ferruginous, clothed with short black hairs ; first joint tawny ; third armed with a very short acute tooth, vihose lip is black ; compound joint black towards the tip: chest pitchy, thinly clothed with tawny hairs, ferruginous on each side, where it is also clothed with black hairs : abdomen obconical, dark reddish brown, a little longer and narrower than the chest, clothed on each side with tawny hairs, adorned with three tawny stripes which are also clothed with tawny hairs ; the middle stripe is partly brown, and more distinct than the side pair ; under side tawny, with a hoary tinge, black towards the tip, and having a l)road black middle stripe along the first and second segments: legs tawny, clothed with short black hairs; thighs black towards the base, clothed with white hairs ; feet and fore-shanks ferruginous, with black tips ; forc-fect and hind-thighs black, tips of the latter tawny ; foot-cushions tawny : wings gray, dark tawny at the base and along three-fourths of the length of the fore border ; wing-ribs and veins ferruginous, the latter black to- wards the tips ; angle of the tip cross-vein obtuse, not very distinct, hmriny a knob, or indication of a stump ; scales ferruginous ; poiscrs tawny, with yellow knobs. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. South America. Tabanus DORsiviTTA, Fcm. Cinereo-ferrugineus, thoracis vittis tribus lateribus pectoreque canis, ub- domine flavo-fuscn, vittu dorsali et segmenlorum marginibns posticis subtiis pallidioribtts, aniennis basi pedibusque fulvis, femoribus cine- reis, tarsis piceis, tarsis anticis nigris, alis subcinereis basi et ad coslam subfidvis. Body dull ferruginous : covering of the head dark brown above, pale tawny beneath where it is clothed with pale yellow hairs ; crown adorned with a pitchy, shining, club-shaped ridge which is tawny in front : eyes brassy, parted above by a moderately broad interval ; facets very small, but slightly increasing in size towards the inner fore border : sucker black ; palpi pale tawny, clothed with very short black hairs ; first and second joints of the feelers tawny, clothed with short black hairs, tip of the first above, of the second above and beneath lengthened, angular : chest tinged with gray, adorned with three hoary stripes ; sides and breast hoary, the latter partly clothed with whitish hairs; abdomen yellowish brown, obco- 40 INSECTA SAUNDEUSTANA. nical, longer tliun the chest, clothed with short tawny and black hairs, hoary towards the base, adorned above with a pale tawny middle stripe, which decreases towards the tip ; hind borders of the ventral segments and nearly the whole of them towards the tip tawny : legs tawny ; hips and thighs gray, clothed with pale yellow hairs ; shanks fringed with black hairs ; feet pitchy ; claws black ; foot-cushions tawny ; fore-feet black : wings very pale gray, with a slight tawny tinge at the base and along the fore border as far as the brand, which is pale yellow ; wing-ribs ferrugi- nous ; veins black, ferruginous towards the base and along the fore border ; curve of the tip cross-vein inclining to an ani/ular form, no stump ; scales gray, with tawny borders ; poisers tawny, their knobs brown with pale yel- low tips. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. South America i" Tabanus feeruoinosus. Fern. Ferrugineus, abdomine maculis trigonis fulvis vittato, segmentorum mar- ginibus posticis fulvis, antennis ferrugineis apice nigris, pedibus fulvis, tibiis anticis apice tarsisque piceis, (arsis anticis nigris, alia cinereis ad costam fulvis. An aberrant species. Body ferruginous : covering of the head dark tawny above, hoary beneath wliere it is clothed with hoary hairs : eyes brassy, parted above by a narrow interval ; facets very small, but slightly increasing in size towards the inner fore border: sucker black; lancets pale ferruginous ; palpi dark tawny, long, slender, clothed with short black hairs : feelers ferruginous ; first and second joints clothed with .short black hairs ; third joint hardly angular above, slightly convex beneath, darker towards the tip ; compound joint black, very slightly curved upward, much shorter than the third joint : chest paler on each side ; breast with a hoary tinge, partly clothed with white hairs : abdomen linear, rounded towards the tip, a little broader and very much longer than the chest, adorned with a stripe of tawny triangular spots, these rest on the hind borders of the segments, which are also tawny ; a hoary tinge towards the base of the under side : legs tawny, clothed with short black hairs ; thighs clothed with short pale tawny hairs ; feet and tips of the fore .shanks pitchy, claws and fore-feet black : wings gray, dark tawny beneath the fore border ; brands brown ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black ; angle of the lip cross-vein ■eery distinct, very slightly obtuse, sending forth a long stump ; scales gray, with ferruginous borders ; poisers tawny, witli pitcliy kno!)5. Length of the body 6J lines; of the wings 12 lines. South America. TaBANUS TERMINATUS, Fcm. Cinereo-ferrugineits, thoracis vitlis tribus pectore abdominisqtte villa cants, antennis fcrnigineis busifulris apice nigris, pedibtts fernigineis, tarsis piceis, alts subcinereis. Body dull ferruginous, slightly tinged with gray : covering of the head lawny above, whitish in front and beneath where it is clothed with white hairs : eyes dark bronze, parted above by a moderate interval ; facets very small, but slightly increasing in size towards the inner fore border : sucker black ; lancets pale ferruginous ; palpi pale yellow, rather long, clothed towards the tips with very short black hairs ; feelers ferruginous ; first and second joints tawny, thinly clothed with short black hairs ; Ihird joint slightly convex beneathy forming an obtuse angle above, not horned ; compound joint black, slightly curved upward : chest adorned with three hoary stripes ; breast hoary, partly clothed with white hairs ; abdomen obconical, very much longer than the chest, adorned with a hoary stripe, which becomes more distinct as it approaches the tip : legs dull pale ferrugino\is ; thighs clothed with white hairs : shanks and feet clothed with very short black hairs ; feet pitchy ; foot-cushions yellow ; claws and fore-feet black : wings pale gray ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, ferruginous at the base and along tlie fore borders ; cnrve of tip cross-vein very slight, no angle nor stump ; scales pale gray, with tawny borders ; poisers tawny, with pale yellow tips. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. South America ? Tabanus manifestus, Fcm. Fttlvus, abdominis dorso piceo mttis tribus fulvis omato, palpisjlavis, an- tennis ferrugineis basi fulvis apice nigri'!, pedibus fulvis, femoribus cinereis, tibiis apice larsisque piceii, libiis anticis apice tarsisque an- ticis nigris, alis-limpidis. Body tawny, clothed with short tawny hairs ■. head paler beneath ; two black, shining, convex marks on the crown, the first spindle-shaped, 43 ISSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. llic Other round : eyes brassy, parted above l)y a rather broad interval ; all the facets very small : sucker black ; lancets pale ferrujfinous ; palpi yel- low, clothed towards the tips with very short black hairs : feelers pale ferruginous : first and second joints tawny, clothed with short black hairs ; third joint angular above, very sUghlly convex beneath; compound joint black, rather long, very slightly curved upward : abdomen pitchy, slightly obeonical, longer and a little broader than the chest, adorned with three pale tawny stripes ; the middle stripe distinct and linear, the side pair irre- gular and less distinct ; under side tawny : legs tawny ; thighs gray, clothed with pale tawny hairs ; feet and tips of shanks pitchy ; feet be- neath and foot-cushions ferruginous ; claws, fore-shanks from the middle to the tips, and fore-feet black : wings colourless ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny towards the base and along the fore border ; n curve hut no angle nor stump near the base of the tip cross-vein ; scales almost colourless, with tawny borders ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. South America ? African Species. Tadancs Noctis, Mas. I^iger, capite antico fusco, alis fuseo-subnigris apice cinereis. Body dull black, clothed with short black hairs : front of the head tinged with brown, clothed with short black hairs : eyes veiy large, di- vided into two distinct regions ; hinder region black, occupying the whole upper surface, its facets very large, but gradually decreasing in size to- wards the hind border ; fore region coppery, much larger than that of 7'. atratus, separated from the other by a straight line, composed of very small facets: sucker, palpi and feelers black : angle of the third feeler-join t very shallow : legs black, clothed with short black hairs ; foot-cushions dark tawny : wings blackish, darkest beneath the fore border at three-fourths of the length, gray towards the tips ; a yellowish brown tinge at the base and along the borders of the veins ; wing-ribs, veins and poisers black ; veins like those of T. atratus ; scales blackish, fringed with short dark tawny hairs. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. Cape. 43 TaBANUS PERVA8US, Feiii. Piceits, capite mitico fulvo, thurace pectoreque rii/o-fuscis, illius vittis tribus obsetirioribus, abdomine glauvescente, antennis pedibusqiic tiigris, tarsis intermediis basi tibiisque ferrugineis, alis einereu, basi casta venarumque marginibus fuscis. Body pitchy : head covered above with brown down, dark tawny and clothed with tawny hairs in front : eyes brassy, hirge, separated by a very narrow interval on the crown ; all the facets very small : sucker black ; |)alpi dark tawny : feelers black ; first joint very oblique at the tip ; horn of the third joint short : chest and breast dark reddish brown : chest with three slender indistinct darker stripes : abdomen obconical, covered wiih a bluish gray bloom, much longer than the chest : legs black ; shanks fer- ruginous, with black tips ; hind-shanks fringed with short black hairs ; middle-feet ferruginous at the base ; foot-cushions tawny : wings gray, Inown at the base and along the fore borders till near the tij)s, and on the borders of the veins in the disk ; scales blackish ; poiscrs pitchy with pale yellow knobs ; lip cross-vein forming an obtuse angle, vnthout a stmnp near the base. Length of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 22 lines. West Africa. 'J'abanus muRNus, Fem. Niger fulvo tectus, abdomine pilis fulvis trivittato, antennis ferrugineis basi fulvis, pedibn.1 fulvis, tarsis piceis, tibiis anticis apice tarsisque anlicu nigris, alis limpidis. Body black : head tinged with tawny, hoary behind and beneath where it is clothed with yellow hairs : eyes red, parted above by a mode- rately broad interval, brightest in front ; all the facets very small : sucker black; lancets tawny ; palpi whiti,sh yellow, clothed with pale yellow hairs, and with very few short black hairs : feelers bright pale ferniginous ; first and second joint tawny, clothed with short yellow and black hairs ; on angle beset with a few very short black bristles near the base of the third joint : chest and breast adorned with a grayish tawny covering, clothed on each side with yellow hairs : abdomen slightly obconical, much longer than the chest, clothed with bright pale tawny hairs which form three indistinct stripes on the back, and are most prevalent on each side ; under side with 44 INSECTA SAUNDEUSIANA. a dull tawny covering : legs tawny, clothed with short yellow hairs ; hips and thighs black with a tawny tinge ; shanks and feet clothed with short black hairs ; tips of hind shanks pitchy ; claws, fore-shanks from the middle to the tips and fore-feet black ; four hinder feet pitchy, tawny at the base ; foot-cushions dull tawny: wings colourless ; brands dark tawny : wing-ribs and veins tawny, the latter pitchy towards the tips ; a nearly right angle with a long stump near the base of the tip cross-vein ; scales pale tawny ; poisers whitish yellow. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. Cape. Tabanus albipalcus, Fein. Nigro-cineretts, capitis vertice thoracisque lateribus futvo maculatis, abdo- minis lateribus basifulvis, segmenlorum marginibus poslicis ferrugi. neis, antennis futvis apice ferrugineis,pedibus^flavis,femoribus basi tibiis anticis apice tarsisque aniicis nigris, alis limpidis. Body grayish-black ; head thinly clothed beneath with whitish hairs ; a small tawny spot on the hinder crown : eyes red, parted above by a very broad interval, each adorned with an oblique dark stripe which extends from the fore inner to the hind outer border ; all the facets very small : sucker dark ferruginous, very short ; lancets tawny ; palpi yellowish white, clothed with short white and black hairs : feelers tawny, very short ; first and second joints clothed with short black hairs, each produced above into a black angle ; third joint convex above at the base, not horned ; compound joint ferruginous, short, very slightly curved upward ; a tawny spot on each side of the chest at the base of the wings: abdomen slightly obconical, very much longer than the chest, adorned with a short tawny stripe on each side near the base ; hind borders of the segments ferruginous ; under side mostly gray : legs pale yellow ; thighs towards the base and hips black ; tips of the joints of the feet brown ; claws, fore-shanks from the middle to the tips and fore-feet black : wings colourless ; wing-ribs and veins tawny ; angle of the tip cross-veins very obtuse, with no stump ; brands very indistinct; scales colourless, with pale yellow borders ; poisers whitish yellow. Length of the body 4i lines ; of the wings 9 lines. Gambia. 46 Tabanus socialis, Fem. Cinereus, pectore cano, ahdomine ferrugineo, anlennis basi pedibusque fulvis, alls subcinereis basi et ad costam fulvis. Body gray : head brown above, tawny in front, clothed with white hairs beneath : eyes red, parted above by a narrow interval ; all the facets very small : sucker black ; lancets ferruginous ; palpi yellow : feelers dark tawny at the base : a tawny tinge on each side of the chest : breast hoary : abdomen pale ferruginous, obconical, clothed with short tawny baii-s, very much longer than the chest : legs tawny ; feet black ; foot-cushions pale tawny ; hind shanks clothed with very short black hairs : wings slightly gray, tawny at the base and along three-fourths of the length of the fore border ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, ferruginous at the base ; a curve near the base of the lip cross-vein, but no angle nor stump ; scales dark tawny ; poisers pale ferruginous. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. Cape. Tabanus ikfans, Fem. Niger, capite abdomineque cinereis, abdominis segmenlorum marginihis posticis fulvis, antennis ferrugineis basi fulvis apice nigris, pedibus nigris, tibiis fulvis, alls subcinereis. Body black, tinged with gray : head gray, with a tawny tinge in front, clothed beneath with whitish hairs, adorned above with two black, shining, convex marks, the one slender and fonning a ridge, the other round : eyes brassy, parted above by a rather broad interval ; all the facets very small : sucker black ; lancets pale ferruginous ; palpi tawny : feelers tawny ; third joint ferruginous, oval, with no horn ; compound joint black, slightly curved upward, rather shorter than the third joint : abdomen gray, obconi- cal, thinly clothed with short tawny hairs, a little broader and very much longer than the chest; hind borders of the segments tawny : legs tawny, clothed with short black hairs ; thighs and feet black ; four hinder feet tawny towiu'ds the base ; fore-shanks black towards the tips ; foot-cushions dark tawny : wings slightly gray ; brands brown ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black ferruginous towards the base ; a distinct obtuse angle ivilh no 46 rNSECTA SAUNDEH8IANA. xtump near the base of the tip cross-vein ; scales dull grayish tawny : poiseis I'eriugiiioHs. Lengtli of tlie body 4i liues ; of the wings 9 lines. Cape. Tabanus siccus, Fern. Cinercus, abdomine rufo, palpis flavis, antennis rufis, pcdibus fulvis, tarsis piceis, tibiis anticis rufis, tarsis anticis niyris, alis subcinereis. Head adorned with a tawny covering which is interrupted by two fer- ruginous, shining, convex dots on the crown ; eyes red, parted above by a moderate interval : sucker pitchy ; lancets tawny ; palpi pale yellow, clothed with very short black hairs : feelers pale red ; horn of the third joint formimj a very shallow, slightly obtuse angle : chest and breast gray, clothed with tawny hairs; sides pale red: abdomen pale red, obconical, darker towards the tip, very much longer than the chest ; hind borders of the segments pale, and clothed with pale yellow hairs ; under side tawny -. legs tawny, clothed with very short black hairs ; thighs clothed with pale yellow hairs ; feet pitchy ; claws and fore-feet black ; fore-shanks pale red : wings pale gray; wing-ribs and veins tawny ; tip cross-vein forming a dis- tinct, slightly obtuse angle, and sending forth a stump which is rather longer than its imier side ; scales pale gray, with tawny borders. Length of the body ()J lines ; of the wings 12 lines. Egypt. Anialic Species. Tabanus albulus, Mas ct Fem. Canus, abdomine fusco-fulvo lateribus Jlavo maculatis (fem. dorso cinereo), antennis fidvis basi Jlavis, pedibus fulvis, alis albidis. Male. Body hoary ; head yellow in front, whitish and clothed with white hairs beneath ; eyes of two regions and colours, the one pale red of large facets, the other bronze-black, occupying the sides and extending in a narrow band along the hind border: sucker pale ferruginous; lancets tawny ; palpi whitish, clothed with white hairs : feelers tawny ; first and second joints yellow ; third slightly convex beneath, the angle above extremely shallmv and obtuse, its fore side much more than twice the length of the hind DiPTEHA. ' 4T side ; compound joint slightly curved upward, much shorter than the third joint : chest clothed with short pale yellow hairs ; hreast thinly clothed with short white hairs : abdomen tawny, ohcoiiical, a little narrower and much longer than the chest ; under side tinged with whitish colour ; tip ferruginous, beset beneath with short black bristles; back brownish tawny, tawny at the base and thence partly along each side, which is adorned with a row of yellow spots : legs pale tawny, clothed with short black hairs ; thighs dollied with short white hairs ; claws black towards the tips: wings whitish ; wing-ribs and veins pale tawny ; anffte of the tip cross-vein veri/ obtuse, slightly rounded ; scales whitish, with pale tawny borders ; poisers pale tawny. Fern. Head golden yellow above, white beneath : eyes bronzed ; the facets as usual : palpi sometimes white : abdomen darker than that of the male, its back gray, with a stripe composed of hoary hairs along each side. Length of the body 3J— 4 lines ; of the wings 7—8 lines. East India. Tabanus Pvrrhus, Plate 2, fig. 4, Mas., fig. 6, Fem. Mas et Fem. Cinereus, thoracis laleribus, abdomineque fulms (fem. abdo- minecinereo lateribus basi fuMs), antennis fulvis basifluvis, pcdibus fttlvis, tarsis anticis piceis, alts albidis. Male. Head whitish and clothed witli white hairs beneath ; eyes pale red, of one colour, but divided into two very distinct regions, distinguished by the great difference in the size of the facets : sucker pale tawny ; lan- cets pale ferruginous ; palpi yellowish white, clothed with white hairs : feelers bright tawny ; first and second joints pale yellow, beset with a few very short black bristles ; third joint very slightly convex beneath, forming above a very shallow obtuse angle whose hind side is one fourth of the length of its fore side; compound joint curved upward, rnuch shorter than the third joint : chest and breast gray, clothed with hoary hairs ; their sides tawny : abdomen tawny, obconical, veiy much longer than the chest, clothed with hoaiy hairs, darker towards the tip : under side ferruginous towards the ti]) which is beset with a few short black bristles : legs tawny, clothed with a few very short black hairs ; thighs clothed with white hairs ; feet and fore-shanks darker towards the tips ; claws black ; fore-feet pitchy : wings whitish ; wing-ribs and veins pale ferruginous ; angle of the tip cross-vein distinct but very obtuse, sending forth a stump which is more or less shorter 48 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. Man its inner side ; brands pale yellow ; scales whitish with pale tawny borders ; poiseis yellow. Fern. Crown of the head hoary, adorned with two black shining spots ; eyes red ; the facets as usual : sucker pitchy towards the tip : abdomen gray, slightly obconical, clothed with short pale yellow hairs ; sides of the first, second and third segments tawny ; under side hoary. Length of the body 5—5} lines ; of the wings 9—10 lines. East India. TaBANUS ALBIMEDIUS, Fcm. Cinereo-fenngineus, pectore cano, abdomine maculis fulvis subirigonis trivittato, aniennis fulvis apice nigris, pedibus ferrugineis, tibii.i anlicis apice tarsisque anticis piceis, alis limpidis. Body fen-uginous : crown of the head adorned with a buff covering which is interrupted by a ferruginous, convex, .shining, club-shaped mark ; under side white and clothed with white hairs : eyes brassy, parted above by a moderate interval : sucker black ; lancets ferruginous ; palpi whitish yellow, clothed with short whitish hairs : feelers ferruginous ; first and second joints tawny, beset above at the tips with very short black bristles ; third joint slightly convex beneath, its horn forming a very shalloiv and obtuse angle, whose fore side is wry short and forms an extremely obtuse angle with the cnntinua tion of the third joint to the tip ; compound joint black, curved upward, rather more than half the length of the third joint : chest tinged with gray ; breast hoary, clothed with white hairs : abdomen obconical, with a slight hoary tinge, much longer than the chest, adorned above with three pale tawny stripes which are composed of imperfectly triangular spots : legs ferruginous, clothed with short pale yellow hairs ; thighs much paler than the shanks ; claws black ; fore-feet and tips of fore-shanks pitchy : wings quite colourless ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny towards the base ; brands dark tawny ; curve of the tip cross-vein in- clining to an obtuse angle ; scales and poisers tawny, knobs of the latter bright pale yellow. Length of the body 7 lines ; of tlie wings 14 lines. East India. 49 Tabanus tenens, Fem, Feiruf/ineus, thoracis vitiis duabus lateribus pectorcque canis, ahdomine fusco-ferrugineo vittis tribtis fulvis ornalo, anlennis ferrugineis basi fulvis apice nigris, pedibus fulvis, tarsis femtgineis, atii limpidis. Body ferruginous : crown of the head adorned with a tawny covering whicli is interrupted by a ferruginous, shining, convex, chib-shaped mark ; under side white and clothed with wliite hairs : suclier black : lancets fer- ruginous ; palpi pale yellow, clothed with short white hairs : feelers ferru- ginous ; first and second joints tawny, clothed with short black bristles ; third slightly convex beneath, its horn forming a little shallotv obtuse angle whose fore side forms also an obtuse angle with the continuation of the third joint to the tip ; compound joint curved upward, tipped with black, shorter than the third joint : chest adorned with two hoary stripes ; sides and breast hoary : abdomen obconical, much longer than the chest, its back brownish ferruginous and adorned with three pale tawny stripes, the middle one broader and more distinct than the side pair: legs tawny, clothed with short black and white hairs ; feet ferruginous, with pitchy tips ; claws black : wings quite colourless ; brands dark tawny ; wing-ribs and veins tawny, the latter black towards the tips ; curve of the tip cross-vein slight, not angular ; scales and poisers tawny. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. East India, TABANns HiLARis, Plate 2, fig. 3. Mas. Ferrugineus, thoracis vittis duabus lateribus pectorcque canis, ah- domine vittis tribus canis ornato, antennis fulvis apice ferrugineis, pedibtis fulvis, tarsis ferrugineis, tibiis anticis apice tarsisque anlicis piceis, alis limpidis. Body ferruginous : head white and clothed with white hairs beneath : eyes divided into two regions ; the upper one composed of large facets, is traversed by a spindle-shaped dark brown band which is shortened at each end, and divides the fore yellow band from the pale red hind band ; side region composed of very small facets, dark bronze, extending in a narrow band along the hind border : sucker black : feelers bright tawny, paler at the base, third joint slightly convex above and beneath, not angular; com- 50 INSECTA SAUNDEKSIANA. pou7id jnitit ferruginous, sligkth/ curved upward, shorter that the third joint : chest and breast hoary ; disk of the former ferruginous, adorned with two oblong- hoary stripes : abdomen obconical, a little longer than the chest ; its back brownish ferruginous, adorned with three hoary stripes, the side pair connected by a slender band at the base, and extending thence to the hind border of the third segment ; the middle one begins at the fore border of the third segment, and extends nearly to the tip ; under side pale tawny, clothed with short whitish hairs : legs tawny, clothed with short pale hairs ; hips and thighs tinged with gray ; feet ferruginous ; claws black ; fore-feet and tips of fore-shanks pitchy : wings colourless ; wing- ribs tawny ; veins l)laek, tawny towards the base ; curve of the tip cross- vein slightly inclining to a very obtuse angle. Length of the body 5^ lines ; of the wings 1 1 lines. East India. Tabanus cbassus, Mas. Piceo-ferrugineus, tatus, ahdomhic basi fulvn, aniennis busi fiilvis, pedibus piceis, aiis limpidis. Body very stout, dark ferruginous, inclining to pitch colour, with a slight hoary covering : head dark tawny beneath ; eyes bronzed, of one colour, but as usual, of two regions : sucker black ; first and second joints of the feelers tawny : abdomen slightly obconical, a little longer and broader than the chest, dark tawny towards the base above : legs pitchy ; foot-cushions tawny ; claws black, tawny towards the base : wings colour- less ; brands brown ; wing-ribs and veins pale ferruginous, the latter darker towards the tips ; curre of the tip cross-vein slight ; scales and poisers dark tawny ; knobs of the latter bright pale yellow. Length of the body 85 lines ; of the wings 17 lines. East India. Tabanus vvgus, Feni. Cincreus, thoracis lateribus ferrugineis, abdomine ferrugineo maculis tri- gonis Jlavo-pilosvi trivittato, antennis basi fulvis, pedibus ferrugineis, tarsis piceis, tibiis apice tarsisque nigris, alis subeinereis. Body gray ; crown of the head with a dark tawny covering, which is interrupted l)y a ferruginous, shining, club-shaped, convex mark ; front DII'TEHA. 51 piile tawny ; under side wliitish and clothed with white liaiis : eyes cop- pery, parted above by a moderate interval : sucker black ; lancets pale ferruginous; palpi whitish yellow, thinly clothed with very short black hairs : first and second joints of the feelers tawny, beset with short black bristles : sides of the chest ferruginous ; breast clothed with hoary hairs : abdomen ferruginous, slightly obconical, pitchy towards the tip, a little broader and much longer than the chest, adorned above with three stripes of somewhat triangular spots, which are clothed with pale yellow hairs ; the middle stripe narrower than the side pair : legs ferruginous, tinged with gray, clothed with pale yellow hairs ; feet pitchy, red beneatli ; fore- feet and tips of fore-shanks black : wings slightly gray ; wing-ribs ferru- ginous ; veins black, ferruginous towards the base ; curve of the tip cross- vein not angular ; scales tawny ; poisers tawny, with bright pale yellow knobs. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. East India. Java. Tahanus uubioinosos, Fern. Ferriiyineus, abdomine maciilis trii/onis fidvis Irivittato, antennis ferru- (fineis apice nigris, pedibu.i futvis, tibiis antici.i apicc tar.iisque piceis, tarsis anticis nigris , alls subciiwreis. Body ferruginous ; crown of the head adorned with a pale tawny covering, which is interrupted in front by a convex, shining, club-shaped, ferruginous mark ; under side whitish and clothed with white hairs : eyes bronzed, parted above by a moderate interval ; sucker black, short and stout ; lancets ferruginous ; palpi pale yellow : feelers ferruginous ; lir.st and second joints clothed with short black hairs; third black on the inner side towards the tip ; slightly convex beneath, armed above with a very shal- low and obtuse angle which occupies the whole length, and whose fore side is slightly concave ; compound joint black, curved upward, much shorter than the third joint : breast pale ferruginous, clothed with hoary hairs : abdo- men obconical, longer than the chest, adorned with three indistinct rows of tawny, triangular spots : legs tawny ; feet and tips of fore-shanks pitchy ; fore-feet black : wings slightly gray ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins pitchy, ferruginous towards the base ; curve of the tip cross-vein slight, not angular ; brands pale brown ; scales and poisers tawny. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings IS lines. East India. 5;J INSISCTA SAUNDEBSIANA. Tabanus cmbrosvb, Fern. Cinereus, thorace vitlis tribus ferrugineis ornato, abdomine rufii-fusco vittis tribus fulvis, antennis basi pedibusque fiilvis, femoribus sub- cinereis, tarsia piceis, tai-sis aniicis nigris, atis ciiiereis. Head adoiiicd with a whitish covering, clothed heneath with white hairs ; a club-shaped, dark tawny, shining mark on the crown : eyes bronzed, parted above by a moderate interval : sucker pitchy : palpi pale yellow, clothed with very sliort black hairs : first and second joints of the feelers tawny ; chest and breast gray ; sides ferruginous ; chest adorned with three indistinct ferruginous stripes: abdomen reddish brown, slightly obconical, longer than the chest, adorned with three pale tawny stripes ; middle stripe narrow, linear ; side pair broader and composed of spots ; under side tawny : legs tawny, clothed with very short black hairs ; thighs tinged with gray, elolhed with pale tawny hairs ; claws, fore-feet and tips of fore-shanks black; feet pitchy ; foot-cushions pale to stump ; scales grayish, with tawny borders ; poisers pale tawny. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. East India. ISSECTA SAUNDERSTANA. Tabanus sanguineus, Fem. Rufus, abdominis lateribusflatyis, segmentorum marginibus posticis fnlms, anlennis basi pedibusque ferrugineis, tibiis Jlavis, tarsis nigris, alls limpidis basi et ad costum stihfulvis. Body red, thinly clothed with pale yellow hairs : head tawny in front, thickly clothed beneath with white hairs : eyes brassy-black, parted above by a moderate interval ; facets small, but rather larger on the fore part than elsewhere : sucker black ; lancets ferruginous ; palpi tawny : first and second joints of the feelers ferruginous, produced above into short black horns : abdomen obconical, much longer than the chest ; hind borders of the segments tawny ; sides of the second, third and fourth seg- ments yellow : legs ferruginous, clothed with short yellow hairs ; shanks yellow, their tips and the foot-cushions ferruginous ; feet black, clothed with black hairs ; wings colourless, with a slight tawny tinge at the base and along the fore border ; wing-ribs and veins ferruginous ; curve of the tip cross-vein almost obtusely angular, with no slump ; scales and poisers tawny, the latter with white knobs. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. Java. Tabanus obconious, Mas. Ferrugineus, thorace fuivo subvittatn, abdomine fulvo maculis trigonis ferrugineis omato, anlennis ferrugineis basi fulvis, pedibus fuhns, tarsis piceis, aiis snbcinereis basi et ad cnstam subfulvis. Body ferruginous : head tawny in front, clothed beneath with whitish liairs : eyes very large, divided into two distinct regions ; upper region brassy red, composed of very large fiicets ; fore region purplish black, with u brassy tinge, surrounding the other by means of a narrow band along the hind border of the eyes, composed of small facets: palpi tawny: feelers ferruginous ; first joint tawny ; third slightly conical above but with no horn ; compound joint slightly curved upward, darker at the tip : chest with indistinct tawny stripes, clothed w^th tawny hairs ; breast more thickly clothed with pale yellow hairs : abdomen tawny, obconical, very much longer than the chest, darker towards the tip ; third and each of the following segments adorned with two triangular ferruginous spots resting DIPTKBA. 55 on tlic fore border: legs tawny; thiglis dotlicd witli jwle yellow hairs; shanks and feet clothed with short black hairs ; feet pitchy, t^iwny at the base ; claws black ; foot-cushions ]>ale tawny ; fore-shanks from half the length to the tips and I'orc-thighs pitchy ; fore-feet black : wings pale gray, tawny at the base, and with a slight tawny tinge along the fore border; brands tawny; cross-veins clouded with pale brown; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny towards the base ; curiie of (he tip cross-vein ulmosl nhlusely an-jular, with im stump ; scales and poisers tawny, the latter with pale yellow knobs. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. Central India. Tabanus fervidus, Fem. Cinereiis, pectore cano, ahdomine fulvo vittis tribiis canis omatn, antennis ferrugineis apice nigris, pedibus fidvis, tibiis unticis uptce tarsisquc piceis, tarsis anticis nigris, alts subcinereis basi costaqtie subfulms. Body gray : head dark tawny above, yellowish white in front and beneath where it is clothed with whitish hairs ; a long, pitchy, shining ridge on the crown : eyes dark bronze, parted above by a moderately broad interval ; all the facets very small, but largest on the inner side of the fore part : sucker black ; lancets bright pale ferruginous : palpi yellow, rather long, clothed with short black hairs : feelers bright ferruginous ; first and second joints clothed with .short black hairs; horn of the third joint very short and broad ; compound joint black, slightly curved upward : chest gray ; breast hoary : abdomen tawny, obconical, very much longer than the chest, adorned with three hoary stripes, the middle one distinct, the side pair indistinct and interrupted, especially towards the base : legs tawny ; thighs clothed with pale hairs ; shanks and feet clothed with short black hairs ; fore-shanks towards the tips and feet pitcliy ; claws and fore- feet black : wings pale gray, with a slight tawny tinge at the base, and along the fore border as far as the brand, which is pale brown ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny towards the base ; a slight curve but »io angle nor stump near the base of the tip cross-vein ; scales gray with tawny borders ; poisers pale tawny. iLength of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. Asia. INSECT.V SAUNDERSIANA. Tabanus coNsocits, Fern. Nigro-Hnereus, capite suhlusflavescente,pectore cano, uhdomine fulvo apice nigra, segmentorum marginibus poslicis Jlavis, antennis basi fulvis, pedibus fulvis, tarsis anticis femoribusque nigrh,Hbiis tarsisque apice ferrugineis, alis subcinereis basi et ad costam subfidvis. Body black : head thickly covered with tawny bloom, pale yellow and clothed with pale yellow hairs beneath : eyes dark bronze, parted on the crown by a moderate interval ; all the facets very small : sucker black ; lancets pale ferruginous ; palpi pale tawny with darker tips, clothed with short black hairs : first and second joints of the feelers tawny, clothed with black hairs : chest tinged with gray, clothed on each side with some pale yellow hairs ; breast hoary : abdomen tawny, obconical, much longer than the chest, black towards the tip ; hind borders of the segments yellow : legs tawny, clothed with short black and tawny hairs ; thighs black, with tawny tips, clothed with long pale yellow hairs ; tips of the shanks and of the feet ferruginous ; claws and fore-feet black ; foot-cushions dark tawny : wings slightly gray, tawny at the base and along two-thirds of the length of the fore border ; brands yellowish brown ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny towards the base ; angle of the tip cross-vein obtuse, distinct ; no stump ; scales grayish ; poiscrs bright pale tawny. Length of the body 6 J lines ; of the wings 13 lines. East India. Tabanus pf.blinka, Fem. Cinereus, pectore cano, abdomine nigro, macula utrinquc basi et segmen- torum marginibus poslicis fulvis, antennis ferrugineis basi fulvis, apiie nigris, pedibus cinereis, tibiis tarsisque fulvis, his supra piccis, alis subcinereis basi et ad costam fulvis. Body gray : head covered above with tawny bloom, hoary behind and beneath where it is clothed with pale yellow hairs ; a pitchy, shining, eon- vex mark in front of the crown : eyes black, parted above by a moderately broad interval, composed of very small facets ; the facets on the inner sides of the fore part are rather larger than those elsewhere : sucker black ; lancets pale ferruginous ; palpi tawny, clothed with short black and pale yellow hairs: feelers bright pale ferruginous ; first and second joints tawny. thinly clotlicd witli slioit black hairs ; third (jibbmts and armed willi a blacL- point above, but not formitig a horn ; compound joint black, i'(?j-i/*%A(/y curved upward : breast hoai-y ; sides clothed with pale yellow hairs : abdo- ineu black, obconical, much longer than the chest, thinly clothed with short pale yellow and black hairs, adorned with a large tawny spot on each side towards the base, and with a tawny hind border to each segment : legs gray, clothed with short yellow haire ; tips of the thighs tawuy ; shanks tawny, with pitchy tips ; feet pitchy above, tawny beneath ; claws black ; foot-cushions tawny : wings pale gray, tawny at the base and along the fore border as far as the brand, which is pale brown ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny towards the base ; a curve near the base of the tip cross- vein, but no angle nor stump ; scales tawny ; poisers ferruginous. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. East India, Tabanus calidus, Fern. Cinereo-fulvus, thorave fulvo trivittaio, abdomine fulm vitta pallidiore, apice piceo, antennis basi pedibusque fulvis, femoribtis cinerei^, larsis piceis, alls cinereis, basi costa venarumque marginibus fulvis. Body grayish tawny: head covered above with buff, hoary behind and beneath where it is thinly clothed with white hairs ; crown adorned with a shining, pitchy, club-shaped, convex mark, which has slight oblique fur- rows : feeler region with a slight interrupted cross-furrow behind, and with a more distinct longitudinal furrow ; region of the face divided by a curved furrow from that of the eyes, and having on each side a ridge whicli ex- tends to tlie base of the palpi : eyes bronze, with a purple tint in front, parted above by a moderately broad interval ; facet.s very small, a little larger on the inner side of the fore part than elsewhere : sucker rather long, tinged with grayish tawny towards the base, pitchy towards the tip ; palpi yellow, clothed with very short black and pale yellow hairs ; first and second joints of the feelers tawny ; chest with three indistinct tawny stripes ; sides somewhat tawuy ; breast hoary, partly clothed with whitish hairs : abdomen tawny, obconical, very much longer than the chest, pitchy to- wards the tip, adorned above with a silky lustre, and with a broad regular buff stripe which extends along the whole length, and has on each side one of the same colour, but indistinct and irregular ; under side tinged with hoary ; segments above ai)d beneath impressed with several rows of I 58 INSECTA SAIINDERSIANA. little punctures which are variously disposed : legs tawny, clothed with short whitish liairs ; hips and thighs gray ; feet pitchy ; fore-feet and tips of fore-shanks black : wings gray, tawny at the base and beneath the fore border as far as the brand, and along the borders of the veins ; brand yel- lowish brown ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny towards the base ; an almost angular curve, but no sttimp near the base of the tip cross-vein ; scales dull tawny ; poisers bright tawny. Length of the body 7| lines ; of the wings 15 lines. Asia? Australian Species. Tadanus abstersus, Fern. Niqro-cinereus, thoracis lateribus, pectore, abdominisquc seginealorum mar- ginibus posticisferrugineis, antennis ferrugineis apice piceis, pedibus ferrugineis, libiis anticis apice tarsisque piceis, tarsis anticis nigris, alis cinereis. Body black : head adorned with a hoary covering, which is inter- rupted by a black, shining, club-shaped mark on the crown ; under side clothed with white hairs: eyes bronzed; the facets as usual: sucker black ; lancets and palpi pale ferruginous ; a hoary tinge on the palpi : feelers dark ferruginous, seated on a ferruginous tubercle; third joint forming above an extremely obtuse and shallow angle whose fore side is slightly concave, its hind side slightly convex ; compound joint pitchy, very slightly ctirved upward, much longer than the third joint : clicst tinged with gray ; sides and breast pale ferruginous, thinly clothed with hoary hairs : abdomen slightly obconical, much longer than the chest, thinly clothed with short hoary and black hairs ; hind borders of the segments pale fer- ruginous : legs ferruginous ; hips and thighs tinged with gray ; feet and tips of the fore-shanks pitchy ; claws and fore-feet black ; foOt-cushions tawny : wings gray ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, ferruginous to- wards the base ; angle of the tip cross-vein slightly obtme, very distinct, its stump as long as its shorter side ; scales gray ; poisers tawny with pitchy tips. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. New South Wales. Country unknown. Tabanus ligatus, Fern. Ferrugineus, thorace mbvittato, abdomine fulvo vitta interrupta apicequc fiiscis, antcnnis basi pedibusque fulds, larsis fcrrwjineis, iibiis an- licis apice tarsisque anticis nigris, alls subcinereis basi fulvis, 7ier>)is transversis fusco subnebulosis. Body pale ferruginous ; covering of the head tawny above, whitish yellow beneath where it is clothed with pale yellow hairs ; ridge on the crown long, slender, ferruginous, shining, club-shaped in front : eyes brassy, parted above by a moderately broad interval ; all the facets very small : sucker black ; lancets pale ferruginous ; palpi pale yellow, clothed with short black hairs : first and second joints of the feelers tawny, clothed wilh short black hairs ; tip of the fust forming a short stout horn ; tip of the second forming two short slender horns : chest indistinctly striped with pale colour, which also prevails on each side and on the breast, the latter is partly clothed with pale tawny hairs : abdomen dark tawny, very slightly obconical, much longer than the chest, adorned above with a pale brown middle stripe, which is interrupted on the hind border of each segment, but comprizes the whole of the tip, clothed with short pale tawny hairs, and towards the tip with short black hairs ; under side paler : legs tawny ; liips and thighs clothed with whitish hairs ; hips gray ; shanks clothed with bright tawny hairs : feet ferruginous, clothed with short black hairs, pitchy towards the tips ; foot-cushions tawny ; claws, fore-feet and tips of fore- shanks black : wings pale gray, tiiwny at the base ; cross-veins slightly clouded with brown ; brands pale tawny ; wing-ribs and veins tawny, the latter black towards the tips ; angle of the dp cross-vein, sligluly ruunded, no stump ; scales pale tawny, with darker borders ; poiscrs tawny, their knobs yellow, with white tips. Length of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 20 hnes. 60 INSECTA 8AUNDERSIANA. Tabanus sequens, Fem. Niger fulvo teclus, thorace subviUato, abdominis fulvi vitta niyra maculis fulvis ornata, aniennis nigris, articulis basiferrugineis,pedibusful»i.i, femoribus nigro-cinereis, tibiis tarsisque anlicis nigris, alis cinereis ba.ii casta nervorumque marginibus flavo-fuscis. Body black : covering of the head tawny above, yellowish hoary be- neath where it is clothed with pale yellow hairs ; two black, shining, con- vex marks on the crown, one long and slender, the other round : eyes black, parted above by a broad interval ; facets small, but slightly in- creasing in size towards the inner fore border : sucker black ; lancets fer- ruginous ; palpi tawny, clothed with short black hairs : feelers black ; first, second and third joints dark ferruginous towards the base ; first and se- cond clothed with short black hairs ; horn of the third joint short and stout ; compound joint slightly curved upward : chest indistinctly striped, adorned with a grayish tawiiy covering, clothed with short tawny hairs ; a tuft of black hairs at the base of each wing ; breast gray, clothed with pale tawny hairs ; abdomen tawny, clothed with short pale tawny hairs, very slightly obconical, a little broader and much longer than the chest, adorn- ed above with a black middle stripe, which is inlaid on each segment with a triangular tawny spot whose base is pale yellow and rests on the hind border of the segment ; sides of the segments pitchy towards the tip ; under sides paler, not striped : legs tawny ; thighs grayish black, clothed with pale tawny hairs 5 shanks fringed with black hairs, clothed beneath with very short pale tawny hairs ; feet pitchy towards the tips ; claws tawny with black tips ; foot-cushions pale tawny ; fore-shanks except the base and fore-feet black : wings gray, yellowish brown at the base along the borders of the veins and beneath the fore border, as far as the brand which is dark brown ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, ferruginous at the base and along the fore border ; curve of the lip cross-vei7i very slight, no angle nor stump ; scales grayish tawny, with tawny borders ; poisers fer- ruginous, with bright pale tawny knobs. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 17 lines. 61 Tadanus Janus, Fein. fiilvo-cinereus, ihorace subvittato, pectore cano, abdomine fulvo apice picen, aniennis basi pedibttsque fulvis, femoribus ciTlcreis, tarsis piceis, alis subcinereis basi et ad costam fulvis. Body gray : covering of the head tawny above, lioaiy beneath where it is clothed with white hairs ; crown adorned with a pitchy, shining, in- terrupted stripe : eyes bronze, parted above by a moderately broad inter- val ; all the facets very small : sucker black ; palpi pale yellow, clothed with very short black hairs : first and second joints of the feelers tawny, clothed with very short black hairs : chest adorned with a tawny tinge, very indistinctly striped ; breast hoary, clothed with whitish hairs : abdo- men tawny, obconical, clothed with short black hairs, paler beneath, pitchy at the tip, very much longer than the chest : legs tiiwny ; hips and thighs gray, clothed with whitish hairs ; shanks fringed with short black hairs ; feet pitchy : wings pale gray, tawny at the base and along the fore border as far as tlie brand which is dark tawny ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, ferruginous at the base and along the fore border ; cui-ve of the tip cross-vein rather slight, no angle nor slump ; scales pale gray, with ferruginous borders ; poisei-s tawny, with yellow tips. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. Tabanus planus, Mas. CinereiM, pectore cano, abdominu maculis dvabus basi latcribtisqiie fuMs, antennis basi pedibusqve flavis, femoribus cinereu; tibili apice tar- sisque piceis, tibiis anticis fiilvis apice nigris, tarsis anticis nigris, alis limpidis. Body gray, thickly clothed with pale tawny hairs : covering of the head pale tawny : under side clothed with pale yellow hairs : eyes red, of one colour but divided into two distinct regions ; upper region shining, larger than the other, composed of large facets ; fore region dull, composed of very small facets, surrounding the first by means of a narrow band along the hind border : sucker black, clothed with tawny hairs ; palpi pale yel- low, clothed with paler hairs : first and second joints of the feelers clothed with short black hairs ; fii-st joint yellow, second tawny : breast hoary : ab- domen obconical, longer than the chest, adorned on each side of the base 62 INSEOTA SAUNDERSIANA. with a large pale tawny spot, which is continued in a side stripe to the tip: legs pale yellow, clothed with pale yellow hairs ; hips and thighs gray ; tips of the shanks pitchy ; feet pitchy, tawny at the base ; fore-shanks dark tawny, black from the middle to the tips ; claws and fore-feet black ; foot- cushions pale tawny : wings colourless ; wing-ribs and veins pale tawny, the latter black towards the tips ; brands tawny ; angle of the tip cross-vein very distinct, slightly obtuse, sending forth a moderately long stump ; scales colourless, with pale yellow borders ; poisers tawny, with whitish yellow knobs. Length of the body 6^ lines ; of the wings 12 lines. Tabanus connexus, Fem. Cinereus, thoracis vittis tribus pectoreqtie canis, abdomine piceo vittis una Integra duabusgue interruptis cinereis ornato, segmentorum margini- bus posticis fulvis, antennis fulvis apice nigris,pedibus flavis, femori- bus cinereis, tarsis piceis, tarsis anticis nigris, alis cinereis. Body gray : covering of the head tawny, hoary beneath where it is clothed with white hairs : eyes dark bronze, parted by a rather broad in- terval ; all the facets very small : sucker black ; palpi pale yellow, clothed with very short black hairs : feelers dark tawny ; first and second joints clothed with short black hairs, their tips lengthened into acute angles ; third joint slightly convex beneath, widened above into a nearly right angle, black towards the tip ; compound joint black, very slightly curved upward ; chest adorned with three indistinct hoary stripes: breast hoary, partly clothed with white hairs : abdomen pitchy, dull, slightly obconical, very much longer than the chest, adorned with three gray stripes, the middle stripe entire, the side stripes formed of spots ; under side tinged with gray ; hind borders of the segments pale tawny : legs yellow, clothed witli short pale yellow hairs ; hips and thighs gray ; tips of the shanks pitchy ; feet pitchy, ferruginous towards the base j claws and fore-feet black ; foot- cushions pale tawny : wings gray ; brands brown ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, ferruginous at the base and along the fore border ; a slight curve near the base of the tip cross-vein, no angle nor stump ; scales gray, with tawny borders ; poisers tawny, with paler tips. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 1 2 lines. 63 Tadanus contactus, Fein Cinereus, pectore cano, abdominis maculis duabus lateribuset segmentnrum marginibus posticis ftdvis, antennis fernigineis basi futvis apice piceis, pedibus fulvis, fcmoribus cinereis, tanis piceis, alis subcine- reis. Head tawny, adorned with a hoary covering which on the crown is interrupted by two pitchy, shining marks, one round, the other very slender : eyes dark bronze ; the facets as usual : sucker pitchy : lancets ferruginous ; palpi pale yellow, clothed with short black hairs : feelers fer- ruginous ; first and second joints tawny, clothed with short black hairs i third juint slightly convex beneath, armed above ufith an obtuse angle, whose fore side is not longer than its hind side ; compound joint pitchy, very slightly curved upward, as long as the third joint : chest gray ; breast hoary, thinly clothed with short white hairs : abdomen gray, slightly ob- conical, longer than the chest, thinly clothed with short pale hairs ; sides and hind borders of the segments tawny ; a large tawny spot on each side of the second segment : legs tawny, clothed with very short black hairs ; hips and thighs gray, clothed with white hairs ; feet pitchy ; claws and fore-feet black : wings pale gray ; wing-ribs and veins tawny, the latter black towards the tips ; curve of the tip cross-vein inclining to an obtuse angle ; brands dull yellow ; wings pale gray, with tawny borders ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 9 lines. Tabanus iiispiDus, Mas. Cinereus, thoracis lateribus abdomineqve fermgineis, hoc basi nigra vitlato, antennis ferrugineis, basi fulvis, pedibtis ferrugiruis, tarsis piceis, tarsis anticis nigris, alis subcinereis. Head beneath dark tawny, clothed with pale tawny hairs : eyes dark bronze, thickly clothed with short dark tawny hairs ; all the facets very small : sucker black ; palpi hoary : eyes tawny, clothed with short pale yellow hairs ; feet black, ferruginous beneath ; tips of the fore-shanks black : wings pale gray ; wing-ribs and veins ferruginous, the latter pitchy towards the tips ; angle of the tip cross-vein very obtuse, slightly rounded ; poisers tawny, with pale yellow knobs. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 64 INSECTA SAUNDEHSIANA. Tabanus variatus, Fern. Ciiiereus, thoracis lateribtis vitlisque Iribus canis, ahdomine j'ulm maculis trigonis canis nigra marginalis intlaque ferrttyinca varialis omalo, antennis nigris basi ferrugineis, pedibus /ulvis,femoribus cinereis, tarsis pieeis, propedum femoribus tibiis apice tarsisqite nigris, atis subcincreis. Body gray : head adorned with a yellowish white covering, which is interrupted by a pitehy convex club-shaped mark in front of the crown ; under side white and clothed with white hairs : eyes bronzed ; the facets as usual : sucker black ; lancets ferruginous ; palpi pale yellow, clothed with short black hairs : feelers black, partly ferruginous towards the base ; third joint slightly convex beneath, armed above with a small short stout slightly acute horn ; compound joitit curved upward, shorter than the third joint : chest adorned with three hoary stripes ; sides and breast hoary ; tip of the scutcheon ferruginous : abdomen obeonical, tawny, longer than the chest, pitchy towards the tip, adorned above with a stripe composed of boary triangular spots with black borders and inlaid in a broad ferrugi- nous stripe: legs tawny ; thighs gray ; feet pitchy ; claws black, tawny at the base ; fore-thighs, fore-feet, and tips of fore-shanks black ; tips of the middle-shanks anned with black spines : wings pale gray ; wing-ribs and veins tawny, the latter black towards the tips ; angle of the lip cross-vein obtuse, slightly rounded ; brands pale brown ; scales tawny ; poisers tawny, >vith yellowish knobs. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. Tauanus honestus, Fem. Niger fulvo tectus, thoracis lateribus fulvo macvlatis, pectore cano, abdo- mine fulvo, vitta apiceque nigris, antennis fulvis apice ferrugineis, pedibus fulvis, tarsis anticis nigris, alis limpidis basi et ad costam fulvis. Body black : head covered with tawny bloom, tinged with hoaiy, and clothed with yellow hairs beneath ; two shining, black, convex marks in front of the crown, the one conical, the other round : eyes red, parted above by a rather broad interval ; all the facets very small : sucker pitchy ; lancets pale ferruginous ; palpi pale yellow, thinly clothed with short black liairs : feelers tawny ; first and second joints pale tawny, clothed with short hlack bail's ; third joint convex beneath, angular above, but not horned ; compound joint pale ferruginous, curved upward : chest tingled with dull tawny ; a tawny spot on each side at the base of the wings : breast hoary, partly clothed with white hairs : abdomen bright tawny, slightly ohconical, clothed with short tawny hairs, very much longer than the chest, adorned above with a black stripe which widens towards the tip, where it occupies the whole surface ; under side paler : legs bright tawny, clothed with yel- low liairs ; shanks and feet clothed with short black hairs ; tips of feel and of fore-shanks pitchy ; claws and fore-feet black : wings colourless, tawny at the base and along the fore border as far as the brand which is also tawny ; wing-ribs and veins tawny, the latter pitchy towards the tips ; an- gle of the tip cross-vein obtuse, very distinct, sending forth a short stump ; scales slightly gray, with tawny borders ; poisers yellow, with whitish knobs. Length of the body 7 lines; of the wings 14 lines. TaBANUS FULVIGEIi, Mas. Fulims, pectore cano, antennis ferrugineis basi fulvis, pedibus fulvis, alis limpidis. Body tawny : head pale tawny in front, whitish, and clothed with white hairs beneath ; eyes brassy, of one colour but divided into two dis- tinct regions ; upper region composed of very large facets ; fore region on each side of the front, not extending along the hind border, composed of very small facets : sucker pitchy ; palpi pale yellow, clothed with long yellowish white hairs : feelers ferruginous ; first and second joints tawny, clothed with short black hairs ; third unusuatli/ shallow at the base, almost straight beneath, slightly rising and forming a very obtu.se angle above ; com- pound joint dark ferruginous, rather long and slender, hardly curved up- ward : chest thickly clothed with short tawny hairs : breast hoary, partly clothed with whitish hairs : abdomen ohconical, clothed with short tawny hairs, longer and a little broader than the chest ; segments impressed with rows of liltle punctures, their hind borders pale : legs tawny ; thighs clothed with pale yellow haii-s ; shanks and feet rather darker than the thighs, clothed with short black hairs ; claws black ; foot-cushions pale tawny : wings quite colourless ; wing-ribs and veins tawny ; an obtuse dis- tinct angle sending forth a moderately long slump near the base of the lip INSECTA SAUNDKHSIANA. cross-vein ; scales colourless, with tawny borclcis ; poiseis tawny. Length of the body 5 lines ; of tlie wings 1 1 lines. Tadanits iiuFONiQER, Fem. Niger, cayite anlicc sublusque futvn, thoracis lalerihus viltis duabus pec- toreque rufis, abdomine basi sublusque rufo, segmentorum marginibus posticis subtus fulvis, pedibus piceis, alls cinereis, basi casta venarum- que marginibus fuscis. Body black : head in front and beneath tawny, covered wilh a hoary bloom, clothed with pale yellow hairs ; eyes bronze, large, parted by a very narrow interval on the crown, and almost in contact on the fore part ; fa- cets very small, but a little larger in front than elsewhere : sucker black ; lancets ferruginous ; palpi yellow : feelers black ; the horn stout, currcd, rather long : chest and breast dark led ; disk of the chest black, with the exception of two dark red stripes ; abdomen obconical, much longer but not broader than the chest, dark red above at the base and on the sides of the second segment ; beneath dark red, clothed wilh short tawny hair.s, and adonied with a tawny hind border to each segment: legs pitchy, clothed with short black hairs ; thighs clothed with tawny hairs ; knees dark red ; claws black ; foot-cushions tawny : wings dark gray, brown at the base and beneath the fore border for ihree-fourths of the length and along the borders of the veins in the disk ; wing-ribs and veins black ; lip cross-vein forming a sliyhlly obtuse angle, wilhottt a slump; posterior submarginal areolet open to the border ; scales blackish ; poisers white. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. Tadanus redactus, Fem. Niger, abdomine ferrugineo villa nigra ornato, antennis fulvis, pedibus ferrugineis, alis cinereis basi et ad costam fulvis. Body black : head thinly clothed beneath with short pale yellow hairs ; crown with four shining pitchy convexities, the fourth large, occupying the space between the third and the feelers, slightly furrowed: eyes dark bronze, thinly clothed with short tawny hairs, parted above by a very broad nil'TEHA. 67 inteiviil ; all the facets very small : sucker pitchy ; palpi yellow, with pitchy tips : feelers tawny ; first and second joints clothed with short black hairs ; third with a protuberance, but tw horn : chest and breast clothed with pale yellow hairs which are longest and most numerous on the breast ; a tawny spot on each side at the base of the wing : abdomen pale ferruginous, slightly obconical, a little broader and much longer than the chest, adorned with a black stripe which widens and becomes irregular towards the tip ; under side not striped ; fore borders of the segments to- wards the tip pitchy ; hind borders yellow on each side ; legs pale ferru- ginous, clothed with short tawny hairs ; thighs clothed with longer haii'S, black towards the base ; a few black hairs towards the tips of the shanks ; feet ferruginous, with pitchy tips ; claws black ; foot-cushions tawny : wings gray, tawny at the base and along the fore border for more than half the length ; brands yellowish brown ; cross-veins clouded with brown ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, ferruginous at the base and along tlie fore border ; ant/le of the tip cross-vein very obtuse, no stump ; scales lawny ; poisers tawny, with pitchy knobs. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. Tahani's sknior, Fem. Albo-rufus, ahdomine fasciculis aibis bivitlato, antcnnis nigris basi fulvis, pedibus fenttgineis, fomoribus albidis, tarsis picei.t,ttlis cinereis basi casta nervorumque marginibus fulvis. Body dull red : head white in front and beneath where it is thickly clothed with white hairs : eyes bronzed, parted above by a very narrow in- terval : sucker black ; lancets ferruginous ; palpi yellow, clothed with black hairs : feelers black ; first and second joints tawny, clothed w ith black hairs ; third forming a very obtuse angle beneath, armed above with a very stout, moderately long, acute horn : chest adorned with a whitish tinge, clothed on each side with a few black hairs : breast whitish, clothed with white hail's ; abdomen slightly obconical, much longer than the chest, adorned with two stripes of patches of white hairs ; sides and under side more thickly clothed with white hairs ; legs ferruginous, clothed with short hlack hairs ; thighs tinged with white, clothed with white haii-s ; feet pitchy ; claws black, tawny at the base ; foot-cushions pale tawny ; fore- thighs and fore- feet black : wings gray, dark tawny at the I>ase, beneath the fore border and along the borders of the veins ; wing-ribs and veins 08 INSECTA SAUNDEliSIANA. tawny, the latter pitcliy towards the tips ; angle of the tip cross-vein dis- tinct, obtuse ; scales pale dull tawny, with darker borders ; poisers yellow ; knobs tawny beneath. Iiength of the body 9 lines; of the wings 18 lines. DICHELACERA, Macquart. DiCHELAOERA FASCIATA, Fem. Juisca, cajnte thoracis latenhns anticis pectoregtie fiavis, abdominis basi segmentorum marginibns posticis ventre pedibusque fulvis, femoribus tibiisqve apice et metatibiis piceis, alis sublimpidis vittis maculisque duabtis fuscis. Head pale yellow, adorned above with two shining, pitchy, club-shaped marks, whitish and clothed with white hairs beneath : sucker pitchy, black towards the tip ; lancets and palpi tawny, the latter long and slen- der : feelers tawny at the base: eyes bronzed, parted by a moderate in- terval ; chest brown ; sides in front and breast pale yellow, clothed with pale yellow hairs ; abdomen brown, obconical,niuoh longer than the chest; first segment, hind borders of the following segments and under side tawny : legs tawny, clothed with pale tawny hairs ; feet, hind-shanks and tips of the thighs and of the four front shanks pitchy ; claws black ; wings nearly colourless ; fore border, a stripe proceeding from the base to the hind border, a large spot in the disk, and another (united with the prece- ding) at the tip brown ; wing ribs and veins pitchy ; lip cross-vein fonning an obtuse angle ; scales brown ; poisers tawny, their knobs pitchy, with tawny tips. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 9 lines. North America. DlCIIF.LACERA MULTIFASCIA, Fem. Fuiva, thoracis disco nigra, abdomine fasco basi segmentorum inarginibus posticis vcntreque fiilms, antennis ferrugineis basi fulvis apice nigris, pedibus fulvis albido piceo nigroque cinctis, alis sublimpidis fulvo viltatis fusco tfimaculatis ad costam fuscis. Head pitchy above, bright tawny in front and l)encath where it is clothed with pale yellow hairs : eyes bronzed, parted above by a moderate interval : sucker black ; lancets tawny ; palpi yellow, long and slenderv .rf •ff'rt -i' -^ mi'TKiu. 69 tlicir tips pitchy : feelers ferruginous ; first and second joints tawny, the angles of their tips produced into horns ; third joint slightly convex be- neath, ai'med above with a very long, dark ferruginous horn, which is oiirvcd downward, and extends to half the length of the compound joint ; the latter is black, very slightly curved upward, shorter than the third joint : chest and bre:ist pale tawny, clothed with yellow hairs ; disk of the chest black : abdomen brown, obconical, very much longer than the chest ; first segment and hind borders of the following segments tawny, clothed with yellow hairs ; underside tawny : legs tawny ; feet black; hind-shanks and tips of hind-thighs pitchy ; fore-shanks and middle-shanks whitish, the former with pitchy tips ; foot-cushions tawny ; hairs varying in colour according to the parts which they clothe : wings nearly colourless, tawny beneath the fore border which is brown, adorned near the hind border with three large brown spots ; the first near ihe base ; the second in the middle, doubly connected with the third, which extends to the fore border ; wing- ribs and veins pitchy ; tip cross-vein fonning an obtuse angle near the base ; scales tawny ; poisers tawny, with pale yellow knobs. Length of the body 4i — 5J lines ; of the wings 9 — 1 1 lines. Para. DiCHELACF.RA pn.«TEREUNs, Plate 2, fig. 6. Fem. Picea, capite subtus fulvo, thorace vittis quatuor lividis ornato, an- temtin ferrughms apice piceis, pedibtis fei-rugineis, tarsis anlicisfe' moribusgue nigris, alhfmcis limpido variis ad costam fulvis. Body pitchy : head dark brown above, dark tawny in front and be- neath where it is clothed with tawny hairs : eyes dark bronze, parted above by a moderately broad interval ; all the facets small : sucker black ; lancets tawny ; palpi ferruginou.s, long, slender : feelers dark ferruginous ; first and second joints clothed with black hairs; horn nearly as long as the third joint, whence it springs, much curved downward, ending in a bristle ; compound joint pitchy, hairy, hardly curved upward, much shorter than the third joint : chest adorned with four livid stripes, the side pair are in- distinct : abdomen pitchy black, linear, conical towards the tip, clothed with short black hairs, twice the length of the chest; hind border of the fourth segment fringed with short white hairs : legs dark ferruginous, clothed with very short black hairs ; thighs black, tinged with brown, clothed with dark tawny hairs ; claws and fore-feet black ; wings dark 70 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. brown, dark tawny along the fore border as far as the brand which is blackish, paler along the hind border and on the disks of the areolcts ; three of the latter have colourless streaks ; the tip and a large spot beneath the middle of the fore border are also colourless ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, ferruginous at the base, tawny along the fore border and in the colourless parts of the wings ; curve of the tip cross-vein very decided, but hardly angular ; scales and poisers pitchy. Length of the body Cj lines ; of the wings 14 lines. South America. DiCHELACERA VACILLANS, Fcm. Picea, capile antico fulvo suhtxts cano, pectore ventreque canescenlihus ab- domine nigra, segmentorum marf/inibus posticis lividis, anlennisfulvis, apice nigris, pedibiis nigris, tibiis piceis, alis cinereis, fitsco fascialis ad costam fulvis. Body dark brown : head tawny in front, hoary and clothed with white liairs beneath ; eyes bronze, parted above by a rather narrow interval ; facets very small, but slightly increasing in size as they approach the inner fore border : sucker black ; lancets pale ferruginous ; palpi tawny, long, slender : feelers tawny ; first and second joinis clothed witli short black hairs ; tip of the second joint sharply angular ; horn almost as long as the third joint whence it springs, much curved downward; compound joint black, hardly curved upward, very much shorter than the third joint : cliest pitchy ; breast with a hoary tinge, partly clothed with white hairs ; abdo- men black, very slightly decreasing in breadth towards the tip, a little broader and very much longer than the chest; hind borders of the seg- ments livid ; under side tinged with gray ; legs black, clothed with short black liairs ; shanks pitchy, ferruginous towards the base ; foot-cushions pitchy ; wings gray, dark brown at the base, dark tawny along the fore border as far as the brand which is blackish ; a dark brown, very broad band beneath the brand, not extending to the hind border ; the two areolcts beneath the fore border, and between this band and the base, are very pale gray ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black, pitchy at the base and along the fore border ; curve of the tip cross-vein slight ; scales and poisers pitchy. Length of the body 5 lines; of the wings 11 lines. Brazil. DlCHELACEBA SPAUSA, Fein. Picea, thoracis vitlis duabusferrugincis ornato, abdomine nigra, antennis ferrugineis apice nigris, pedibus nigris alls fuscis, casta fulva, apice margine postica macuiisque seplem cinereis. Body pitchy : head clothed beneath with dark tawny hairs : eyes dark bronze, parted above by a moderately broad interval ; facets very small, but slightly increasing in size towards tlie inner fore border : sueker black, hairy; lancets pale ferruginous; palpi pitchy, thickly clothed with short black hairs : feelers dark ferruginous ; first and second joints clothed with black hairs; horn nearly as long as the third joint, much curved down- ward ; compound joint black, hardly curved upward, shorter than the third joint ; chest adorned with two daik ferruginous stripes, and having a fer- ruginous tinge on each side ; a tuft of black hairs before the base of each wing : abdomen black, slightly obconical, a little broader and much longer than the chest, clothed with short black hairs ; legs black ; foot-cushions tawny : wings brown, dark tawny along the fore border as far as the brand which is blackish, gray at the tips and along the hind border, adorned with seven pale gray spols of various size, one on each areolct ; wing-ribs and veins mostly black ; curve of the tip cross-vein distinct ; scales gray, with dark tawny borders ; poisers pitchy, with tawny knobs. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 13 lines. Brazil. SCEPSIS. Silvio affinis ; ocelli distincti : antennae parvje, simplices : ala; nervi subcostalis angulus ramulum longum demittens. Scepsis nivalis, Plate 2, fig. 7. Atba, thoracis vittis tribus flavo-albis ornato, abdaminis segmentnrum mar- ginibus pasticit fulvis, antennis piceis basi fulvis, pedibus fuhis, alis albis. Body black, but wholly adorned with a white covering, clothed with white hairs which are mostly beneatli : a slight'tawny tinge in front of the eyelets which are black ; eyes bronze-black, parted above by a very broad 72 INSECTA SAUNDKRSIANA. interval ; all the facets very small : sucker and palpi short, tawny : feelers tawny, small, tapering from the base to the tips ; third, fourth and fifth joints pitchy : chest adorned with three slender yellowish white stripes : abdomen obconical, longer than the chest ; hind borders of the segments tawny : legs tawny, covered with white bloom, clothed with whitish hairs ; tips of the claws 1)laclt : wings white ; wing-ribs and veins pale tawny, the latter darker towards the tips ; an almost right angle sending forth a long stump near the base of the tip cross-vein ; scales whitish, with pale tawny borders ; poisers yellow, with yellowish white knobs. Length of the body 4i lines ; of the wings 8 lines. South America. CHRYSOPS, Meigen. Chbvsops excitans, Fern. Nigra, capilc fuhescente, abdominis maculis tribus venlreqtie fulms, an- tennis nigris basi fulms, pedibus nigris, tarsis posterim-ibtis tibiisque bast ferriigineis, alis limpidis fusco vittaiis el fasciatis. Body black : head adorned with a blight tawny covering which sur- rounds some large black shining marks ; two of these are on the crown, the first including the eyelets, the second in front of the feelers ; two on the face, obclavate, united at the mouth ; one on each side of the peris- toma: eyes black ; all the facets very small: sucker or lip black ; lancets or labrum, tongue, mandibles and maxillse tawny ; palpi pitchy, ferrugi- nous at the base: feelers black, nearly twice the length of the head, curved upward towards the tips ; first, second and third joints tawny ; first and second clothed with short black hairs : chest and breast clothed with tawny hairs ; breast tinged with gray : abdomen slightly obconical, a little broader and much longer than the chest ; a large tawny spot occupies the sides of the first and second segments : a triangular tawny spot rests on the hind border of the second segment, and is connected with the side spots ; under side dark tawny ; fore borders of the segments pitchy ; a large black spot at the base ; legs black, clothed with very short black hairs ; thighs clothed with short tawny hairs ; shanks and four hinder feet ferniginous towards tlie base ; foot-cushions dark tawny : wings colourless, brown at the base, along three-fourths of the fore border, and beneath the fore border on one-fourlh of the length and half of the breadth of the wing DIPTERA. 7;J from its base ; a broad brown band extends nearly to the hind border from the latter part of the brown on the fore border ; wing-ribs and veins pitehy, tlie latter partly tawny : scales grayish tawny, with darker borders ; poisers pitchy. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 9 lines. Cape Breton. Chkysops provocans, Fem. Nigra, capite ftdvescente, antennis nigris basi fulvis, pedibus niyris, tarsis posterianhns lasi ferrugineis, alis limpidis fusco vittatis et fasciatis. Body black : covering of the head hoary above, tawny in front, in- cluding some large black shining marks which are situated like those of 6'. cxcilans ; the pair on the face are much larger than those of the pre- ceding species : eyes black ; all the facets very small : sucker black ; lancets dark tawny; palpi pitchy : feelers black, like those of C excitmis, but the first and second joints are clothed with hoary hairs : chest and breast tinged with gray ; a tuft of pale yellow hairs on each side at the base of the wings : abdomen slightly obcouical, clothed with a very few short hoary hairs, a little broader and much longer than the chest : legs black; shanks and feet clothed with very short black hairs; four hinder feet dark ferruginous at the base ; foot-cushions dark tawny -. wings coloui- Icss, brown at the base, along three fourths of the fore border, and beneath the fore border on one fourth of the length and half of the breadth of the wing from the base ; a broad brown band extends from the fore border and approaches nearer to the hind border than that of C. excitmis; wing-ribs and veins black ; scales gray with pitchy borders ; poisere pitchy. Length of the body 3i lines ; of the wings 8 lines. Cape Breton. Chrysops stimulans, Mas. Nigra, capite sttbtus pectore abdominisque maculis duabus basi canis, ab- domineinaculis trigonis fulvis trivittato, antennis pedibtisqiie niyris, tarsis posterioribus basi tibiisque intermediis fuliis, alis limpidis nigra vittatis fusco fasciatis margine postico ciiiercis. Body black : covering of tlie head hoary in front and beneath where it is clothed with hoary hairs ; a tawny tinge on the face, which has on L 7 t INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. c.icli side a large, obclavate, black, shining mark : eyes black ; all the facets very small : sucker and palpi pitchy, hairy : feelers black, hairy, more than twice the length of the head : chest clothed with pale tawny hairs and on each side with black hairs ; breast boary : abdomen nearly linear, clothed with black hairs, much longer than the chest, adorned with three stripes of dull pale tawny triangular spots, the side stripes are indis- tinct; a large hoary spot on each side near the base: legs black, clothed with pale lawny hairs ; four hinder feet towards the base and middle- shanks tawny ; foot-cushions dark tawny : wings colourless, gray along the hind border, blackish along the fore border, and also for one-fourth of the length and half of the breadth from the base beneath the fore border, where they include a very small colourless spot ; a very broad dark brown band extends across the wing and includes a colourless spot ; wing-ribs and veins black, the latter partly tawny ; scales pale tawny ; poisers black. Length of the body 3i lines ; of the wings 7 lines. East India. AcANTIlOMUnA Magnifica, Plate l.fig. 1. Fern. Ferrnginea, thorace vittii quinque fulvis ornato,ahdoinine rufo basi pieeo laleribus nigris alio 7naculatis,anlennis fulvis, pedibusflavis, femoribus piceis, tibiis apice fuseis, alis fusco-cmerdsfmco maculatis basi fosla nervorumque marginibus flams. Head ferruginous, adorned with hoary bloom ; a short horn on the hypostoma : eyes coppery, parted above by a rather broad interval ; facets small : eyelets seated on a high tubercle : sucker tawny ; palpi paler : feelers tawny : chest ferruginous, covered with hoaiy bloom, adorned with five brown stripes, of these the outer pair are slight and interrupted, the inner pair are broad, distinct, linear and converging hindward, the middle one is indistinct : breast dark ferruginous ; its disk livid : abdomen red, shining, much longer than the chest, linear till near the tip which is trun- cated and terminates in a short black tapering tail : sides black ; first segment pitchy ; hind borders of the second and third adorned on each side with white triangular spots : legs bright yellow ; hips and thighs pitchy ; lips of the shanks pale brown ; claws black, tawny at the base ; liind thighs broader towards the tips, armed beneath at three-fourths of the length with a short black spine ; hind-knees armed with ferruginous spines ; tips of the hind-shanks dark brown : wings brownish gray, pale DIPTEHA. 75 vcUow at the base, beueatli the fore boidci and along the veins ; some parts of the veins elouded with pale brown whieli forms a large irre- gular spot beneath the brand, the latter is diirk brown ; poisers ferru- ginous. Length of the body 21 lines; of the wings 34 lines. South America. ADDENDUM. The genus Agapophytus (Voyage de la Coquille) seems to be very nearly allied to Cyclotelus, page 4, and some species of the latter much resemble A. Australasia;, Guerin. INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA, &c. Fam. STRATIOMYD^, Latr. Genus ODONTOMYIA, Meigen. Odontomyia histrio, Fein. Fiitva, capitis rnaculis quatuor piceis, thoracis vittis tribus niijris, scutelln dentihns ihmhvs ferrugineis armato, pectore viridi, abdominis disco piceo vittis duabvs Jlavis, antennis piceis, pedibus fulvis, alis lim- pidis. Head tatmig, yellow beneath, adorned above with four pitcliy spots, one on the tubercle of the eyelets, one at the base of the feelers, and one on each side in front of the crown : eyes red above, pitchy beneath ; all the facets very small : feelers pitchy, paler beneath : chest and breast tawny : chest adorned with three black stripes ; middle stripe widened in front ; scutcheon armed with two pale ferruginous teeth : breast pale green : ab- domen tawny, a little broader and longer than the chest, conical towards the tip, which is pointed ; disk pitchy, adorned with two yellow stripes which extend from the base along half the length ; underside pale tawny with a green tiuge : legs tawny ; shanks darker than the thighs ; feet pitchy towards the tips : wings colourless ; wing-ribs, veins and poisers tawny. Length of the body 6i — 7^ lines; of the wings 12 — 13 lines. Brazil. 78 TNSEOTA SAUNDEESIANA Odontomyia excocta, Fem. Alra, capile antico rufo, scutelto dentibus piceis armato, abdominis vitlis duabus venlreque ferrut/ineis, antennis piceis rufo cinctis, ■pedibus nigris, alis fuscis. Body deep black : head and chest shining : head red in front : eyes pitchy ; all the facets very small : feelers dark red, pitchy at the base and at the tips : scutcheon armed with two pilchj/ spines : abdomen broader and a little shorter than the chest, ferruginous beneath, adorned above with a broad, short, ferruginous stripe on each side : legs black ; foot- cushions tawny : wings very dark clear brown ; wing-ribs and veins black ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 9 lines. Odontomyia aterrima, Mas. Alra, scutello inermi, abdominis lateiibus segmentorum tnarginibus posticis ■ventreque ferrugineis, antennis piceis, pedibus nigris, tarsis piceis bast fulvis, alis fuscis apice fulvis. Body ve)-y deep black : head shining : eyes meeting on the crown, pitchy and composed of small facets beneath, coppery and of larger facets above : mouth black : feelers pitchy, paler towards the base, which is black : chest clothed with short black hairs ; scutcheon unarmed : abdo- men shining, a little broader and longer than the chest; underside pitchy, sides and hind borders of its segments ferruginous : legs black ; knees fer- ruginous ; feet pitchy, pale tawny at the base: xuings brown for full two- thirds of the length from the base, pale tawny from thence to the tips, the outline of each colour distinctly marked ; brands dark brown ; wing-ribs, veins and poisers pitchy. Length of the body 3J lines ; of the wings 6i lines. Brazil. Odontomyia picea, Mas. Picea, capite fulvo, scutelli margine postico ferruginco dentibusque duabtis ferrugineis armato, abdominis lateribus ventrisque vitta viridesccnti- bus, antennis nigris, pedibus fulvis, tarsis posticis piceis, alis Hmpidis. Body pitchy, clothed with tawny hairs : head tawny, shining : eyes red; all the facets small: mouth and feelers black: hind border of the DIPTERA. 79 scutcheon ferruginous, armed with ferruginous teeth : abdomen a little longer and broader than the chest, greenish on eaeh side; underside adorned with an indistinct greenish stripe : legs tawny ; hind-feet pitchy, tawny towards the base ; wings colourless ; wing-ribs, veins and poisers tawny. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. Van Diemen's Land. Odontomvia exul, Fern. Nigra, scutello inermi, abdominis apiee fulvo, antennis nigris, pedibus piceis, tarsis fulvis, alis albidis. Body black, dull, covered with tawny down : head somewhat length- ened in front : eyes pitchy: feelers black ; first and second joints of equal length ; third shorter : scutcheon unarmed : abdomen finely punctured, a little longer and much broader than the chest ; tip tawny : legs ipitchy ; feet tawny : mngs whitish ; wing-ribs la\vny ; veins yellow ; poisers whitish yellow. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 6 lines. OdONTOMYU SOLENNIS, Mas. JEnea, sculelli margine postico fulvo dentibus duabus ftavis armato, ab- domine viridi apice fulvo vittaque picea omato, anlennis pedibusque fulvis, alis albidis. Body brassy : head black, clothed beneath with white hairs ; sides of the peristoma yellow : eyes red and composed of large facets above, brassy black and of very small facets beneath : mouth pitchy : feelers dark tawny, paler towards the base : chest and breast clothed with short tawny hairs ; hind borders of the scutcheon tawny, armed with two yellow spines : ad- domen pale green, a little broader but not longer than the chest, tawny towards the tip, adorned above with a pitchy stripe which widens towards the tip : legs pale tawny : wings whitish ; wing-ribs and veins yellow ; poisers tawny, with apple-green knobs. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 6 lines. East India. 80 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. Genus NEMOTELUS, Geoffroy. Nemotelus capensib, Mas et Fern. 'Niger, abdominis vitta macuUsque duahus ferrugineis, apice fulvo ,])edibus fulvis, alls alhidis. Male. Body black, shining, very thickly clothed with hoary hairs : head and chest thickly clothed with black hairs : eyes bronzed : a slender ferruginous streak and a large ferruginous spot on each side of the abdo- men, whose tip is tawny : legs pale tawny ; tips of the fore-feet darker ; wings whitish ; wing-ribs, veins and poisers yellow. Fern. Body thinly clothed with hairs : eyes red, not hairy : abdomen not spotted. Length of the body 2i lines ; of the wings 6 lines. Cape. Nemotelus advena. Fern. JEnea, capitis fascia thoracisque vittis dwibus flavis, abdomine ferrvyineo lateribus apiceque jriceo variis, antennis fuhds apice nigris, pedibus fulvis, alis limpidis. Body brassy : head covered with hoary down : an interrupted, slender, yellow band in front of the crown above the feelers : eyes red : mouth tawny : feelers tawny, with black tips : chest and breast covered with tawny down : a slender yellow stripe on each side of the chest ; abdomen pale ferruginous, partly pitchy along each side and towards the tip : legs tawny : wings colourless ; wing-ribs and veins tawny ; poisers yellow. Length of the body 2i lines ; of the wings 4i lines. BIASTES, n. g. Caput anticum subproductum : antennae capite mullo longiores ; ar- ticulus lus 2o duplo longior ; .3us cl scquentes arete coha;rentes ; ultimus gracilis, linearis, pracedentibus longior. Head slightly lengthened in front : feelers slender, much longer than the head ; second joint about half the length of the (irst ; third and fol- lowing closely united, forming a conical compound joint ; last joint slender, linear, longer than all the preceding. 81 BiASTEs iNDicus, Plate 3, fig. 3. Mas. Niger, scutclli maryine postico fiilvo deiUibus quatuor fulvis ornato, antennis piceis basi fulvis, pedibus fulvis, tarsis flavis, femoribus pos- ticis piceis, alis subcinereis ad costarn apice fuseis. Male. Body black, dull, without hairs, but covered with very short tawny down : face tinged with white : eyes bronzed, occupying the whole upper side ; facets large above, very small in front : mouth tawny : feelers pitchy, tawny at the base : chest long and narrow, convex, spindle-shaped ; hind border of the scutcheon tawny, armed with four short tawny teeth : abdomen elliptical, finely punctured, much broader but not longer than the chest : legs tawny ; feet pale yellow ; hind thighs pitchy : wings pale gray, brown beneath the tip of the fore border ; wing-ribs and brands tawny ; veins strongly marked, in structure like those of Clitellaria, pitchy, tawny along the fore border ; poisers pitchy. Fern. Eyes parted by a moderately broad interval, which is smooth and shining ; all the facets very small : head very slightly lobed above on each side behind the eyes. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings .5 lines. METABASIS, n. g. Caput anticum valde productum, conicum : antennis articulus lus subfusiformis ; 2us obconicus, 1 i longitudine ; 3us et sequentes arete co- liEErentos, articulum unicum fusiformem 2o fere quadruplo longiorera quasi fiugentes. Front of the head produced into a slender cone, which is as long as the preceding part and bears the feelers on its tip : first joint of tlie feelers nearly spindle-shaped ; second obconieal as long as the first ; third, and all the following forming a compound, indistinctly divided joint, nearly four times the length of the second joint, and of a lengthened spindle-shaped form. Metabasis rostbatus, Mas. Niger, thoracis lateribus viridi vittatis, scutelli margine postico ferrugineo dentibusque duabus ferrugineis armalo, antennis nigris apice piceis, pedibus ferrugineis, tarsis piceis, alis nigro-fuscis. Body black, long and narrow, rather flat : head shining, tawny beneath ; its cone slightly furrowed across : eyes red, nearly meeting on the crown, 82 INSEOTA SAUNDEESIANA. divided into two regions, the lower pitchy and composed of very small facets, the upper red, slightly bronzed, composed of rather large facets : mouth black: feelers black ; first and second joints shining; oonipound joint dull, pitchy : chest rather long, covered with brown down, having a pale green stripe on each side ; hind border of the scutcheon ferruginous, armed with two ferruginous teeth : abdomen flat, nearly spindle-shaped, covered with brown down, much longer and a little broader than the chest : legs ferruginous ; feet pitchy, tawny towards the base ; wings very dark brown ; wing-ribs and veins black ; poisers pitchy, their knobs green be- neath. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. Brazil. Genus CHKYSOCHLORA, Lair. Chrysochlora plana, Fem. Fulva, thorace vittis tribus piceis, abdomine nigra ventre vitlisque fulvis, antennis ferruffineis, pedihis flavis, femorihis fulvis, alts subcinereis ad costam fulvis disco sublimpidis. Head pale tawny, or yellow, clothed with pale tawny hairs, and on the crown with a few black hairs : a pitchy streak extending from the eye- lets nearly to the feelers : eyes black, slightly adorned with iridescent colours i facets small : mouth tawny : feelers ferruginous, in structure like those of C exclamans : bristle black, tawny at the base : chest and breast dark tawny : chest adorned with three pitchy stripes ; fore border of the scutcheon and part of the breast pitchy : abdomen black, nearly elliptical, a little longer and broader than the chest, adorned with one entire and four interrupted short, tawny stripes ; underside pale tawny, pitchy towards the tip : legs pale yellow ; thighs tawny ; claws black, yellow at the base : wings pale gray, tawny beneath the fore border, almost colourless in the disk, wing-ribs, veins and poisers tawny. Length of the body 6— 6j lines ; of the wings 14 — 15 lines. Columbia. Chrvsochloiu i' TiNCTA, Fem. Nii/ra, abdominis apiceferrut/ineo, tibiis poslicis basi tarsisque flavis, alls cinereis ad costam fulvis . Body black, dull : head prominent and rugulose in front, clothed above with black hairs, beneath with pale tawny liairs : eyes black, thinly DIPTEUA. 83 clothed with short pale hairs : sucker black, clothed with pale tawny hairs ; first and second joints of the feelers Mack ; second not half the length of the first : chest clothed with tawny hairs : abdomen slightly increasing in breadth from the base till near the tip, longer, but hardly broader than the chest, ferruginous towards the tip, clothed with tawny hairs, which form bands on the hind borders of the segments : legs black, covered with yel- low down ; hind shanks towards the base and feet yellow ; claws black : wings dark gray, tawny beneath the fore border for three-fourths of the length from the base ; wing-ribs and veins ferruginous ; veins black in the gray parts of the wing ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 5i lines ; of tlic wings 12 lines. Columbia. Genus SARGUS, Meiyen. SaBGUS DEBILIS, Mas. Viridis, capitis macula Jlava, thoracis disco jmrpureo-cyaneo, scutelli apice purpurea, abdomine fulvo apice subwneo, antennis pedibusque fulvis, alls limpidis. Body bright green : head yellow and clothed with pale yellow hairs at the base of the feelers : eyes pitchy ; facets small, somewhat larger in front than elsewhere : mouth pale tawny : feelers tawny ; bristle pitchy : disk of the chest purplish-blue ; tip of the scutcheon purple : abdomen pale tawny, longer than the chest, increasing in breadth from the base towards the tip, where the disks of the segments are more or less bronzed : legs pale tawny : wings colourless ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins pitchy, tawny at the base and along the fore border ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. United States. CACOSIS, n. g. Antennis articulus 3us longus ; seta basi crassa, nigro pubescens. Third joint of the feelers longer than that of S. Vespertilio ; bristle thick and clothed beneath towards the base with black down. INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. Cacosis nioeb, Plate 3, fig. 1 . Sargiis niger, Wied. Genus PTILOCERA, Wiedemann. Ptilocera coNTiNDA, Plate 3, fig. 2. Fern. Cyanea, thoracis lateiibus purpurea variis, antennis nigris scptem- ramosis, apice albis, pedibus piceis, aits fuscis margine postico cinereis. Body dark blue : head slightly covered in front with hoary down : eyt'S pitchy ; all the facets small : mouth black : feelers black, white to- wards the tips, adorned with seven feathered branches ; chest adorned on each side with purple reflections : abdomen much broader but not longer than the chest, slightly covered towards the tip with hoary down : legs pitchy : wings dark brown, gray along the hind border, which is almost colourless at the base ; wing-ribs, veins and poisers pitchy. Length of the body 3^ lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 3&V&. Fam. ASILICI, Latr. The following twenty-four genera have been foimed of this family ; Dioctria, Microstylum, Discocephala, Brachyrhopala, Dasypogon, Rhopa- logaster, Xiphocera, Laphystia, Laphria, Lampria, Hoplistomera, Mega- poda, Ccraturgus, Craspedia, Mallophora, Promacha, Polyphorius, Tru- panea, Asilus, Erax, Protacanthus, Ommatius, Damalis, Atomosia and Leptogaster. The European species of Dasypogon have been divided by Loew into the following seventeen groups ; Saropogon, Dasypogon, Stcnopogon, Habropogon, Xiphoccrus, Holopogon, Eriopogon, Heteropogon, I.sopogon, Oligopogon, Slichopogon, Lasiopogon, Cyttopogon, Anarolius, Acnepha- lum, Pycnopogon and Crobilocerus. His divisions of European Asili comprise the following sixteen groups ; Lophonotus, Macq., Eutolraus, Machinius, Mochtherus, Cerdistus, Stilp- nogaster, Itamus, Tolmerus, Epitriptus, Antiphrisson, Asilus, Rhadiurgus, Pamponerus, Antipalus, Echthistus and Philonicus. '.>>ejnu»..'!ix.*aJ .^.w-J -•-^^^ DIPTERA. 85 In these descriptions I have separated from Dasypogon the following six genera, which, with the exception of the first, are characterized ; Me- gapollyon, Cabasa, Prolepsis, Euarmostus, Pseudorus and Morirana. Nusii, Acurana, Scaiidon and Cha;rades, are allied to Laphria ; Phellus is allied to Mallophora; Cormansis to Atomosia; and Pheneus is most remote from the general structure of the family. Genus DIOCTRIA, Meigen. DioCTRiA T/vsM.vNiCA, Saunders' MSS. Fem. Nigra, thoracis lateribus pectorcque ferrugineis, abdomine piceo lateribus ferrugineis, antennis pedibusque nigris, libiis basi fiavis, alis limpidis fusco vittalis el macidalis. Body black, shining: head clothed with black hairs and bristles, adorned in front and behind with a hoary covering ; two black triangular spots on the face ; epistoma adorned with a row of white bristles : sucker black, clothed with black hairs : eyes black ; fore part rather flat, all the facets small : sucker black, clothed with black hairs; palpi black, beset with black bristles : feelers black, much longer than the head ; chest fer- ruginous on each side : breast ferruginous, adorned with a hoary covering : abdomen pitchy, ferruginous along each side, thinly clothed with short hoary hairs, more thickly covered with longer hairs at the tip beneath, much more than twice the length of the chest, slender and linear near the base, spindle-shaped and a little broader from thence to the tip : legs black, clothed with very short black hairs, beset with a few black bristles ; shanks bright yellow towards the base ; foot-cushions lawny : wings co- lourless, brown along the fore border to the tip, where this band is forked, it includes in the middle part of its length a colourless streak, beneath which there is a large irregular darker brown spot ; wiiig-ribs and veins black ; poisers bright pale yellow. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. Van Diemen's Land. 80 INSECTA SAONDRRSIANA. DiocTRU TENUIS, Fcm. Nigra, thoracis lateribus pectoreque albo-futvis, abdomine rufo aul niyro, palpis rufis, antermis nigris, pedibus fulvis, alls limpidis fulvo sub- variis. Body black, shining : head slightly metallic, adorned in front with a tawny covering, which has a white lustre ; epistoma armed with a few long white bristles : eyes iridescent ; fore part flat, composed of large facets : sucker black, red towards the base ; palpi red, beset with long black bristles : feelers black ; first and second joints beset with black bristles : breast and sides of the chest tawny, adorned with white lustre : abdomen dark red, or black with a red base, slender, about thrice tlie length of the chest, narrow and linear near the base, somewhat spindle-shaped from thence to the tip ; fourth, fiftli and sixth segments blackish, with a hoary tinge : legs tawny, slender ; thighs sometimes with a pitchy tinge here and there ; shanks and feet fringed with very short tawny hairs ; shanks beset with tawny bristles ; feet beset with black bristles, darker and sometimes ferruginous towards the tips ; claws black : wings colourless, more or less tinged with tawny, which is most apparent at the base, beneath the fore border and along the veins ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins pitchy, tawny at the base and along the fore border ; poisers yellow, their lips sometimes pitchy. Length of the body 5i — 6 lines ; of the wings 10 — Hi lines. South America. DiocTBiA HoRSLEYi, Saunders' MSS. Fern. Nigra, aurata, thorace vitlis quinque aureis ornato, pectore argenteo, abdominis apice fascia aurca ornato, antennis nigris basi piceis, pedibus nigris, femoribus tibiisque basi fulvis, tarsorum articulis basiferrugineis, alis subfuscis cellularum discis obscurioribus. Body black, shining: head adorned with a gold covering in front, white and beset with a cross row of black bristles behind the eyes, clothed with white hairs behind and beneath ; a few black hairs on each side of the crown and on the region of the eyelets : eyes black ; fore part flat, composed of large facets: sucker black, pitchy at the base; palpi black, beset with long black bristles : feelers black ; first and second joints pitchyj clothed with black hairs : chest adorned with five golden stripes, the mid- UIPTEIiA. 87 (He stripe slender and entire, the two on each side broad, irregular, united at each end : breast adorned with silvery lustre, clothed with white hairs : abdomen black, shining, narrower than the chest, and more than twice its length ; a broad, bright, golden band near the dp : legs black, shining ; hips tawny, adorned with silvery lustre, clothed with white hairs ; thighs bright tawny at the base, clothed with very few white hairs ; shanks and feet fringed with short black hairs, armed with black bristles ; shanks bright tawny towards the base, this colour prevails most in the hind- slianks ; tips of the joints of the feet, especially of the fore-feet, ferruginous towards the base ; claws black, tawny at the base ; foot-cushions tawny : wings pale brown ; disks of the areolets darker at the tips, and beneath two-thirds of the length of the fore border and from thence towards the l)ase ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black, dark tawny at the base ; poisers bright yellow. Length of the body 65 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. Genus DASYPOGON, Meigen. Dabypooon Cardo, Fem. Aler, capite antico argenteo spinis albis armato, pectore abdominisque seg- mentoriim 2i et 3i marginibiis posticis cants, untennis pedibus alisqiie nigris. Body black, dull : head clothed beneath with white bairs : face co- vered with silvery-white down ; epistoma armed with about twelve white spines : eyes black ; fore part nearly flat, its facets larger than those else- where : lip black, clothed towards the tip with short tawiiy hairs : palpi black, beset with black bristles): feelers black, lirst and second joints beset with short black bristles ; third nearly linear, twice the length of the first and the second : breast hoary, partly clothed with white hairs : abdomen decreasing in breadthjfrom the base to the tip, aliout twice the length of the chest ; hind borders of the second and third segments hoary on each side ; fourth and fifth segments mostly red above ; tip shining ; legs black, armed with black spines ; foot-cushions tawny : wings blackish ; wing- ri1)s and veins black ; poisers yellow. Length of the body 7J lines ; of the wings 12i lines. Near allied to D. punvtatns. Hunter's Bivcr. INSECTA SAUNDKRSIANA. DaSYPOGON 8PECTANS, Mas. Femtginem, capite ahdomineque fidrns, abdominis bast el se(/mentorum marginibus posticis nigris, antennis pedibusque ferntgineis, alis sub- fulvis npice inargincque postico subcinereis. Head tawny, adorned in front with a golden covering, beset behind the eyes with a row of red bristles ; epistoma thicWy armed with pale yel- low spines : eyes bronzed, Hat, and eomposed of large facets in front: sucker black ; palpi tawny, clothed with ferruginous bristles : feelers ferru- ginous ; first and second joints beset with black bristles : chest ferruginous ; sides and breast paler: abdomen bright tawtty, narrower than the chest and more than twice its length, tapering from the base to the lip, which is clothed with a tuft of ferruginous hairs ; first and second segments black, the former having on each side an angular, tawny spot, which is clothed with ferruginous hairs ; hind borders of the following segments adorned with black^ands, which are angular in fhe middle and successively de- crease from the third to the seventh segment: legs ferruginous, armed with black spines ; feet darker towards the tips ; claws black ; foot-cushions tawny ; tip-spines of fore-shanks black, curved : wings pale tawny, grayish towards the tips and along the hind borders ; wing-ribs, veins and poisers ferruginous. Length of the body 17 lines ; of the wings 22 lines. Dasvpogon rapax, Mas. Ferrugineus, capite fulvo-fusco, thorace subvittato,pectore cano, ubdomine nigra pilis albis quadrifasciato, antennis nigris, pedibus piccis, larsis posticis nigris, alis flavo-fuscis. Head dark brown, beset with a few black bristles, adorned with a tawny covering, clothed beneath with white hairs ; epistoma anncd with about sixteen white spines : eyes bronzed ; fore part flat, composed of large facets : sucker and palpi black, the latter beset with tawny bristles : feelers black ; second joint at the tip, third at the base and partly be- neath dark tawny ; first and second joints beset with black bristles ; third clothed with black hairs, flat above, slightly convex beneath, longer than the first and the second ; chest beset with black biistles, adorned with a dark ferruginous covering, which is indistinctly striped : breast hoary : ab- domen deep blacli, tapering from the base to the lip, narrower than the chest and ratlier more than twice its length, adorned with four bands of long white hairs, one on each segment from the fust to the fourth ; a tuft of black bristles at the tip : legs pitchy, armed with black spines ; claws and hind- feet black ; tip-spines of fore-shanks short, curved, ferruginous, with black tips : wings clear, pale yellowish brown ; wing-ribs and veins ferruginous ; poisets dark tawny. Length of the body 14^ lines ; of the wings 23 lines. South America. Dasvpooon letifer, Mas. Fuscus, capite fulvo, thorace trivittato, laterihus flavis, abdomine ferru. gineo apice piceo, antennis basifulms, pedibus ferriigineis, alii sub- fuscis basi et ad coslam fulvis cellularum discis subcinereis. Head tawny, beset with a few black bristles ; epistoma armed with a few white spines : eyes bronzed ; fore part nearly flat, its facets a little larger than those elsewhere : sucker black ; palpi dark tawny, clothed with long black hairs : lirst and second joints of the feelers tawny, beset with black bristles : chest and breast brown ; sides pale yellow, which colour also forms a stripe on each side of the chest, whose disk has three indistinct paler stripes ; abdomen ferruginous, slightly increasing in breadth from the base to the tip, narrower than the chest and more than twice its length, pitchy towards the tip ; legs ferruginous, armed with tawny spines ; feet darker ; claws black ; foot-cushions tawny ; tip-spines of fore-shanks stout, short, curved : wings pale brown, tawny towards the base and along the fore border; disks of the areolets more or less pale gi'ay, which colour appears most towards the hind border; wing-ribs ferruginous; veins pitchy; poisei-s yellow with ferruginous knobs. Length of the body 11 lines; of the wings 18 lines. Caffraria ? Dasyi'Ogon OASTicvfJs, Fcm. Fuscus, capite fiavo, thorace nigra quadrivittato, lateribus pectoreque albido -flavis, abdomine antennis pedibusque ferrugineis, alis cinereis basi, et ad costamflavo-fuscis. Head adorned with a yellow covering, clothed beneath with a few black hairs, beset behind the eyes with a row of black bristles ; epistoma anned with six or eight black spines ; eyes bronzed ; fore part flat, com- 90 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. posed of large facets : sucker and palpi black, the latter beset with black hairs : first and second joints of the feelers pale ferriiginons, beset with black bristles ; third joint darker ; chest velvet-like hrmen, adorned with four black stripes, the middle pair long and slender, the outer pair short and broad ; sides silky, whitish-buff, which colour also adorns some parts of the yellowish-brown breast : abdomen ferriiginons, a little narrower than the chest and more than twice its length, darker towards the base with the ex- ception of the hind borders of the segments, tapering from the base to the tip, which is shining: legs ferruginous, armed with black spines; claws black ; foot-cushions tawny ; tip-spines of fore-shanks stout, curved, with black tips : wings gray, yellowish-brown at the base and along the fore border ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black ; poisers pitchy. Length of the body 10 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. . South America. DjvsypoGON EXAMiNANs, Fem. Fulvus, capite fiavo, pectore cervino, antennis pedibus(jue fulvis, alts ciTtereis ad costam subfulvis, basi nervorumquc marginibtis nonmdlis sublimpidis. Head a little broader than the chest, adorned with a yellow covering, beset behind the eyes with a fringe of black bristles ; epistoma armed with about sixteen white spines : eyes bronzed ; fore part flat, its facets unusu- ally large ; sucker black ; palpi black, clothed with black bristles : feelers tawny ; first and second joints beset with black bristles ; third spindle- shaped, clothed with a few black hairs, darker and a little longer than the first and the second : chest tatvny, beset along each side with black bristles : sides and breast fawn-colour : abdomen tarimy, a little narrower than the chest and rather more than twice its length, tapering from the base to the tip, which is armed with tawny spines : legs tawny, clothed with short tawny hairs and with black spines ; claws and tips of the feet black, the fonner tawny at the base ; foot-cushions yellow ; tip-spines of the fore- shanks black, curved : wings gray, with a tawny tinge beneath the fore border, almost colourless at the base and along the borders of some of the veins in the disk ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny at the ba.se and along the fore border ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 10 lines ; of the wings 20 lines Para. Dasypoqon insergns, Mas. Piceiis, capite, thoracis vittis tribus lateribus scutello melalhorace pcclore abdoininisqxie fasciis Jlavis, antennis piceis basifulvis, pedibus fcrru- gineis,femoribus nigra vittatis, alls fulvis apice margineqxte postico cinereis. Head adorned with a yellow covering, beset behind the eyes with a fringe of black bristles ; crown pitchy, shining ; epistoma armed with about twenty white spines: eyelets tawny: eyes bronzed; fore part flat and composed of very large facets : sticker black ; palpi dark tawny, beset with black bristles : feelers dark tawny ; first and second joints beset with black bristles ; third pitchy, clothed with a few black hairs, tawny at the base, slightly spindle-shaped, nearly twice the length of the first and the second joints : chest pitchy ; three stripes, sides, scutcheon, hind part and breast ntostly yellow : abdomen pitchy, narrower than the chest and less than twice its length, tapering from the base to the hind border of the se- cond segment, slightly spindle-shaped from thence to the tip, beset with black bristles on each side of the base, adorned with yellow bands ; the first broad, on the first and second segments ; the second and third rather narrow, on the hind borders of the second and third segments ; the fonrtli very narrow on the hind border of the fourth segment ; tip clothed with brown hairs ; legs dark ferruginous, armed with black spines ; thighs streaked with black ; claws and tips of feet black ; tip-spines of fore-shanks black, very much curved ; foot-cushions yellow : wings dark tawny, paler on the disk, gray at the tips and along the hind border till near the base, where they are paler ; wing-ribs and veins ferruginous ; poisers tawny, with yellow knobs. Length of body 10 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. Dasypogon oocioens, Mas. Niger, awatus, thorace vittis duabus ferrugineis ornato, abdomine ferru- gineo vittis aureis et piceis ornato, antennis rufis, pedibus fulvis, alis cinereis, nervorum marginibus subfulvis. Head adorned with a golden covering ; a row of tawny bristles behind the eyes ; crown pitchy, shining, beset with black bristles ; epistoma armed with about twenty white bristles : eyes bronzed : fore part flat, the facets 02 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. much larger than those elsewhere : sucker ferruginous ; palpi tawny, beset with long tawny bristles : feelers pale red ; second joint clothed with very few black hairs; third slightly club-sha))cd, a little broader and nearly twice tlic length of the first and second joints : chest and breast black, mostly adorned with a golden covering; the former with two ferruginoiis stripes, beset on each side with a few black bristles : abdomen narrower than the chest and less than twice its length, obconical till the hind border of the second segment, spindle-shaped from thence to the tip ; first and second segments ferruginous ; third ferruginous for half the length from the base, next traversed by a pitchy band, golden towards the tip ; fourth pitchy, with a golden hind border ; fore half of the fifth pitchy, hind half golden ; the following golden ; hind border of the sixth slightly pilchy ; tip tawny, clothed with pale yellow hairs ; legs tawny, clothed with short tawny hairs, armed with black spines ; elaws black ; foot-cushions yellow ; tip-spines of fore-shanks black, much curved : wings gray, with a tawny tinge along the borders of the veins ; wing-ribs and veins ferruginous ; poisers yellow. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. ? DaSYPOGON FE8TIKANS, MaS. Ferrugineus, capite aureo, thoracis disco, abdominisque ban nigris, anten- nisfulvis, pedibus ferrugineis, alis fulvis margine postico subtimpidis. Head adorned with a golden covering, beset behind the eyes with a row of tawny bristles ; crown pitchy, shining, beset with black bristles ; epistoma beset with eight or ten pale yellow bristles : eyes black ; fore part flat, its facets larger than those elsewhere : sucker black ; palpi tawny, clothed witli yellow hairs : feelers tawny ; first and second joints beset with black bristles ; third spindle-shaped, longer than the first and the second : chest and breast ferruginous ; disk of the former tnostly black : abdomen fer- ruginous, shining, narrower than the chest, and more than twice its leiigth, obconical from the base to the hind border of the second segment, linear along the third segment, spindle-shaped from thence to the tip ; base of the abdomen, and sides of the first, second and third segments mostly black ; tip clothed with tawny hairs ; legs ferruginous, armed with ferruginous spines, clothed with short tawny hairs ; claws black, tawny at the base ; foot-cushions pale tawny ; tip-spines of fore-shanks ferruginous, curved : wings tawny, nearly colourless along the hind border, with the exception of tlie borders of the veins ; wing-ribs and veins black ; poiscrs yellow. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 13 lines. Dasvi'Ogon videns, Fern. Piceus,flavescens, thorace viltis duabus Jlavis omato, abdomine ferrugineo bttsi piceo, ventre maculis piceis, anlennis ferriigineis basi futvis, pe- dibus ferrugineis tibiii basi fulvis, alis mhiimpidis ad costam siib- fulvis. Head adorned with a whitisli yellow covering, beset behind the eyes with a row of black bristles ; crown pitchy ; epistonia beset with two pale yellow bristles and with a few pale yellow hairs: sucker and palpi black ; palpi beset with black bristles : eyes bronzed; fore part flat, composed of large facets : feelers pale tawny ; first and second joints beset with short black bristles ; third ferruginous, pale tawny at the base, spindle-shaped, broader and a little longer than the first and second joints ; chesl and breast pitchy, tinged with pale buff; the former darker than the latter, and adorned with a yellow stripe along each side : abdomen ferruginous, pitchy hire and there beneath and at the base, a little narrower than the chest and about twice its length, linear from the base to the liind border of the third segment, spindle-shaped from thence to the tip ; legs ferruginous, clothed with short ferruginous hairs, armed with ferruginous spines ; shanks tawny towards the base ; claws black, ferruginous at the base ; foot-cushions tamiy : wings nearly colourless, with a slight tawny tinge beneath the fore border ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins pitchy, tawny at the base and along the fore border ; poiscrs tawny. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. Africa. Dasypogon TuisTis, Mas. Ater, abdomine nigro-chweo, antennis nigris basi piceis, pedibus nigri.i, alis nigro-purpureis. Body deep black : head clothed with black hairs, adorned with a hoary covering, beset with black bristles, which form a fringe behind the eyes : face and epistonia thickly aimed with black spines : eyes black ; fore part nearly flat, its facets a little larger than those el-sewherc : sucker black, 94 INSEOTA SAUNDKRSIANA. feiiHginous and clothed with tawny hairs at the tip ; palpi black, beset with black bristles : feelers black ; first and second joints beset with a very few black bristles; first at the tip and second pitchy ; third nearly linear, about thiice the length of the first and the second : neck anncd with a fringe of black bristles : chest clothed with black hairs and bristles : ab- domen a little narrower and very much longer than the chest, slightly tinged with gray, clothed with black hairs, beset on each side of the base with black bristles, linear for half the length from the base, a little broader and very slightly spindle-shaped from thence to the tip, whiclr is clothed with hoary hairs: legs black, very thickly clothed with black hairs, armed with black spines ; claws pale tawny towards the base ; foot-cushions tawny ; fore-shanks unarmed : wings black, adorned with a purple lustre ; wing-ribs and veins black ; poisei-s bright tawny. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. United States. Dasypogon IN8EKTUS, Fcni. Fuscits, eapitefulvo pubescente, thoraee vitlis Irihus canis duabusque fuscis omato, abdomine nigro-piceo basi fulvo, antennis riigris, pcdibus fulvis, alis fuscis disco limpidis postici cinereis. Head covered with tawny down, which has a whitish hue on the sides and fore part of the face ; the disk of the latter is black, shining, and en- circled with brown ; crown black, shining, beset with black bristles ; epistoraa armed with six white spines ; a row of black bristles behind the eyes : eyes bronzed ; fore part flat, composed of large facets : sucker black, clothed at the tip with tawny hairs : palpi tawny, beset with black bristles : feelers black ; first and second joints beset with black bristles ; third spin- dle-shaped, beset above with short black bristles : chest and breast brown ; neck and sides of the chest beset with black bristles ; disk of the chest hoary, with the exception of a brown stripe, which is inlaid zvith a slender, hoary stripe ; scutcheon and hind chest tawny, adorned with a silky, yellow lustre ; breast adorned on each side with u hoary band : abdomen pitchy- black, about twice the length of the chest, obconical from the base to the hind border of the second segment ; spindle-shaped from thence to the tip ; first, second and third segments pale tawny ; hind border of the third pitchy ; tip armed with black spines : legs tawny, clothed with short black hairs, armed with black spines ; claws black ; tip-spines of fore-shanks DIPTERA. 95 curved : wings brown along the fore border, gray along the hind border ; an almost colourless streak extends from the hind border at the base along two-thirds of the disk, where it is interrupted, and appears again in a round spot nearer the tip ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, ferruginous at the base and along the fore border ; poisers tawny, with yellow tips. Length of the body 9 lines; of the wings 16 lines. Para. Dasypogon inolusus, Mas. Albido-flaviis, thoraee villis tribus nigris ornato, abdominc fulvo, aiUennis basi pedibusque Jlavis, alis limpidis apice subcinereis. Head broader than the chest, adorned with a whilish covering, beset behind the eyes with a row of black bristles, adorned beneath with a few white hairs ; two black bristles on the tubercle of the eyelets ; episloma armed with six or eight white spines ; eyes bronzed ; fore part flat, its facets very large : sucker black, clothed at the tip with whitish hairs ; palpi pitchy, beset with black bristles ; first and second joints of the feelers beset with black bristles ; first joint pale yellow ; second tawny : chest mid breast whilish yellow ; disk of the chest black, excepting two whitish stripes, which are curved outward in front: n6rfo)«en (awm/, linear, much narrower than the chest and rather less than twice its length : legs yellow, thinly clothed with very short black hairs, armed with black bristles and spines ; fourth and fifth joints of the feet ferruginous ; pulvilli yellow ; claws black, tawny at the base ; tip-spines of fore-shanks much curved : wings colourless ; tips pale gray ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 9 lines. Para. UASVPOaON DASALIS, Mus. Ferrugineus, capite aureo, thorace vitiis duabus nigris ornato, abdominis lateribm albo nigroque maculatis, antennis ferrugincis, pedibus fulvis, femoribus rufescentibus, tarsis basi flavis, alls subcinereis fulvo variis. Body ferruginous : head adorned with a bright gold-coloured cover- ing, having a few black hairs on each side of the crown, and a few tawny 06 INSECTA SAUNDESRIANA. hairs beneath ; hind part armed witli black spines in the middle, and with a row of black bristles on each side ; a few very short black hairs on the middle of the face, which is not prominent, but is armed on the epistoma with numerous bright tawny spines : eyes black ; fore part nearly flat, its facets larger than those elsewhere : sucker and palpi black, the latter beset with long black bristles : feelers ferruginous ; first and second joints beset with long black bristles ; second much longer than the first; third slightly spindle-shaped, much longer than the first and the second, beset above with short black bristles : chest thinly clothed with short black hairs, armed with some black spines and bristles on each side and behind ; disk dark ferruginous, vnlh two slender black stripes : abdomen bright ferruginous, clothed with short black hairs, rather more than twice the length of the chest, tapering from the base to the tip, which is shining and beset with black bristles ; a black and white spot on each side of every segment : legs tawny, clothed with short black hairs, armed with black spines ; thighs reddish ; feet darker towards the tips ; first joint yellow ; claws black ; foot-cushions yellow; tip-spines of fore-shanks black, much curved : wings rather short, very light gray, tinged with dark tawny at the base, on the fore border and along the borders of the veins in the disk ; wing-ribs and veins ferruginous ; poisers yellow. Length of the body 10 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. United States. Dasvpooon imbutus. Fern. Nigra, capite peelorcque fulvcscentibus, thoracis viltis qiuituor pallidis, abdomine nitido striata basi cano, antennis niyris, pcdibus rujis, genubus tibiis apice larsisque nigris, alis fuscis ad costam cinereis. Body black : head adorned with a dark tawny covering, beset on each side of the crown and behind the eyes with black bristles ; epistoma armed with a few black spines and bristles : eyes bronzed ; fore part flat, composed of very large facets : mouth and feelers black ; first and second joints of the feelers beset witli black bristles ; cliest black, clothed with black hairs, adorned with four pule tawny stripes, of v/hlbh the middle pair are very indistinct; sides armed with a few black spines; breast dark brown, partly tawny : abdomen slightly tapering from the base to the tip, a little narrower than the chest and nearly twice its length ; first, second and third segments hoary ; the following shining, striated across ; tip armed DIPTEEA. 97 with u circlet of black spines : legs red, armed with black spines ; knees, tips of shanks and feet black : wings dark brown, adorned with coppery- purple lustre, dark gray beneath the fore border ; wing-ribs and veins black; poisers tawny. Length of the body 12 lines; of the wings 23 lines. East India. Dabypogon Apiformis, Mas. Niger, fulvo tectus, ahdomine lineari, antennis pedibu^que nigris, tibiis fulvis, tarsis piceis, alisfuseis. Body black, adorned with a tawny covering, thickly clothed with tawny liairs : hind part of tlie head fringed with whitish hairs ; face and epistoma thickly clothed with pale yellow hairs : eyes pitchy ; fore part flat, its facets very large : sucker and feelers black ; third joint of the feelers spindle- shaped ; fourth very short : abdomen linear, as broad as the chest and about twice its length : legs clothed with pale yellow haii-s and bristles : hips and thighs black ; shanks pale tawny ; feet pitchy ; claws black wings brown ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black, bright tawny at the base and along the fore border; poisers dark tawny. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. East India. Dasvpooon trimelas. Fern. Niger, capiie pectoreque fuh-escentibus, ihorace villis qualuor pallidis or- nato, sculcllo et metathorace cincreis, abdomine basi itlrinque cano postici nitido striata, antennis pedibusqite nigris, alls fuscis ad costam cinereis. Body black : head adorned with a dark tawny covering, clothed be- neath mth black hairs, beset on the crown and behind the eyes with black bristles ; epistoma aimed with seven black spines : eyes bronzed ; fore part flat, the facets very large : mouth and feelers black : chest clothed with black hairs, beset on each side with black bristles ; adorned with four dingy white, or dull pale tawny stripes, of which the outer pair are much more distinct than the inner pair : breast dull pale tawny : scutcheon and hind- fhest grayish : abdomen tapering from the base to the tip, narrower than 98 INSECTA SAUNDEBSIANA. the chest and nearly twice its length ; segmenls from the first to the fourth (lull, hoan/ on each side ; following segments shining, striated across ; tip armed with a circlet of Mack spines : legs black, armed with black spines ; no tip-spines : wings dark brown, adorned with a coppery-purple lustre, dark gray beneath the fore border ; wing-ribs and veins black ; poisers dark tawny. Length of the body 10^—12 lines; of the wings 20—23 lines. East India. Dasyi'ooon pulverifer, Mas. C'lmn-fulwu, albo hirlus, pectore cano, abdomine longo, antennis nigris, pedibusfulviSffemoribus nigris, alls fulvo-Umpidis abbreviatis. Body adorned with a dull tawny covering : head thickly beset with white bristles ; face prominent, thickly armed from near the feelers to the epistoma with white bristles ; a few black bristles about the eyelets : eyes black ; fore part flat, its focets much larger than those elsewhere : mouth and feelers black ; first and second joints of the feelers beset with white bristles ; third joint convex beneath, narrower towards the tip : fourth tapering, not half the length of the third : neck thickly clothed with white hairs -. chest thinly clothed with short black hairs, armed with black and tawny spines ; breast hoary : abdomen taivmj (which colour is hardly seen through the thick hoary covering), full twice the length of the chest, ta- pering from the base to the tip, clothed with white hairs : legs tawny, clothed with short pale tawny hairs, armed with black and pale tawny spines ; thighs black, with tawny tips ; claws black, tawny at the base : wings colourless, short, with a pale tawny tinge at the base and beneath the fore border; wing-ribs and veins tawny ; poisers pale lawny. Length of the body 9j lines ; of the wings U lines. East India. Dasypogon diuitus, Fern. Fulvus, capite nigra, thurace ferrugineo viltis trihus nigris ornato, abdo- minis apice fcmigineo, antennis ferrugineis, pedibus alisque fulvis. Body tawny : head black, adorned in .front with a yellow covering, clothed beneath with yellow hairs ; face thickly and completely beset with DIPTEEA. 99 yellow bristles : eyes bronze-black ; fore part nearly flat, its facets a little larger tban those elsewhere : sucker black, clothed at the tip with short yellow hairs ; palpi black, beset with a few black liairs : feelers ferruginous ; first and second joints beset with short tawny bristles : chest ferruf/inous, clothed with short yellow hairs, adorned with three black stripes, of which the side pair are short and interrupted : abdomen tapering from the base to the tip, clothed with short yellow hairs, full thrice the length of the chest, ferruffinou-1 and shining towards the tip : legs tawny, clothed with short yellow hairs, anned with a few yellow spines ; claws black, tawny at the base ; fore-shanks unarmed : wings bright tawny, colourless along the hind border towards the base ; wing-iibs, veins and poisers ferruginous. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. Cape. Genus CYRTOPOGON, Lnew. Cyrtopooon laphrides, Plate 3, fig. 7. Mas. Niger fulvo hirtus, thorace nigra hirto, antennis pedibusque nigris, alls limpidis ad costam fulvis apice fuscis. Head very thickly clothed with tawny hairs, most thickly clothed be- neath with white hairs : face mostly clothed with pale tawny hairs ; eyes black, fore part flat, its facets very large : lip black, clothed at the tip with tawny hairs ; tongue ferruginous ; palpi black, clothed with long black hairs : feelers black ; third joint very slender, very much longer than the second; fourth and fifth short: chest tinged with brown, thickly clothed with black hairs, which on the fore part give place to pale tawny hairs : abdomen obconical, shining, a little longer than the chest, clothed with tawny hairs, and at the tip with a few black hairs : legs black, adorned with three fringes, one of black hairs, another of tawny, and the third of white hairs, the black hairs are the shortest and the white hairs most thick ; there are also some ferruginous hairs and bristles ; shanks and feet thickly covered beneath with ferruginous down ; foot-cushions tawny : wings co- lourless ; fore border tinged with tawny towards the base, and with brown towards the tip ; wing-ribs and veins black ; veins tawny towards the base ; poisers tawny. Length of the body Si lines ; of the wings 1 1 lines. East India. MwD 100 INSECTA SAUNDEESIANA Genus DISCOCEPHALA, Macquart. DiSCOCEPHALA ALBOATRA, Plate 3, fig. 8. Mas et Fem. Fusca, thoracis lateribus flavo vittalis, capite sttblits peclore ventreque canis, antennis nigris, pedibtis fulvis, tibiis apice pedibjis- qiie poslicis piceis, alts nigro-fuscis apice limpidis. Body dark brown : head adorned with a tawny covering, hoary and clothed with short wliitish hairs beneath : eyes black ; fore part nearly flat, its facets very large : sucker black, tawny at the tip ; palpi black, clothed with a few long black hairs ; feelers black : chest with a pale yellow stripe along- each side : breast adorned with a whitish covering : abdomen hoary beneath, shining at the tip, a little narrower than the chest and nearly twice its length : legs tawny, thinly clothed with pale hairs ; shanks and feet covered beneath with tawny down ; tips of the shanks pitchy ; claws black ; hind legs pitchy, shanks towards the tips and feet black : wings blackish-brown, colourless for near half the length from the tips ; wing-ribs and veins black ; poisers tawny, with yellow knobs. Length of the body 2^ lines ; of the wings 5 lines. Brazil. CABASA, n. g. IHscocephaltB afBnis: antennis articulus 2us lo multu brevior; 3iis linearis, subarcuatus, lo et 2o multo longior. Allied to Discocephala : second joint of the feelers much shorter than the first ; third linear, slightly curved, much longer than the first and se- cond joints. Cabasa rufituorax, Plate 3, fig. 5. Fem. Atra, thorace rufn, abdomine nigro-purpureo, antennis jmlibmque nigris, alls nigro-fuscis. Body black, shining, thinly clothed with black hairs and bristles : face flat, beset with six black bristles on the epistoma : eyes black ; fore part flat, composed of large facets ; sucker black, clothed at the tip with veiy short tawny hairs ; palpi black, clothed with black hairs : feelers black ; liist and second joints beset witli a few black bristles ; second much sborter than the first ; third linear, slightly curved, full twice the length of the first and second joints : chest red ; its fore part adorned with a short black stripe : abdomen linear, blackish-purple, a little narrower than the chest, and less than twice its length, clothed with hoary hairs, which abound most at the tip : legs black, shining, rather long, beset with black bristles ; foot-cushions pitchy : wings blackish-brown, somewhat paler along the hind borders and in the disks of the areolets ; wing-ribs and veins black ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. Van Diemen's Land. PROLEPSIS, n. g. Alis areola; postica; tres ; vena inter areolas 2am et Sam angulum rectum fingens vena; prOximw basi juncta; areola la inferior margine posteriore clausa. Face armed with a thin tuft of bristles : fore-shanks without tip-spiues : middle submarginal areolet rather wide on the border, the fork of the vein which includes it much nearer to the litlle cross-vein in the disk than to the tip of the wing ; three posterior areolets ; the vein between the second and the third, not as usual, passing direct to the hind border, but forming a right angle, and joining the next vein towards the base ; first inferior arcolel closed on the hind border. Prolepsis fumiflamma, Plate 3, fig. 6. Fem. Nigra, hvmeris fulvo vitlatis, abdomine nigro-cyaneo, anlennis basi fulvis, pedibits nigris, alis fulms, margiiie poslico tiigris, apice albis nigra fasciaiis. Body black : covering of the head brown ; hind part and sides of the crown beset with black bristles : face shining, armed with a thin tiift of black bristles: eyes black; fore part flat, its facets larger than those elsewhere : sucker black, clothed with black hairs : first and se- cond joints of the feelers tawny, beset with black bristles : a short, oblique, pale tawny stripe on each side of the front of the chest: abdomen blue-black, almost linear, conical towards the ti]), clothed with short, black hairs, as broad as the chest and towards twice its length : legs black, clothed with short black hairs and bristles : wings dark tawny, blackish along the hind border and with a broad blackish band near the tip, which V 102 INSECTA SAUNDEHSTANA. is white ; the tawny liue also passes into white, where it widens towards tlic hind bolder adjoining tlie band ; wing-ribs and veins pitchy, the latter black ill the darker parts of the wing ; poisers black. Length of the body 8 lines ; of tlie wings 18 lines. Brazil. EUARMOSTUS, n. g. Alls areola; posticse quatuor ; la margine jiostcriore 2a angustior 3a lalior; 4a 'ia multo latior ; areola la inferior aperta, angusta. Face clothed with a thick tuft of hairs : legs short and stout ; fore- shanks without tip-spines : wings short : base of the fork, which includes tlie middle submarginal areolet, equally distant from the tip of the wing and from the junction of the cross-vein ; four posterior areolets ; the first narrower on the hind border than the second, but broader than the third ; fourth much broader than the second ; first inferior areolet open, narrow. EuABMOsrus niMACULA, Plate 4, fig. 1. Mas. Nigra, fuscn teHa, abdominis basi lateribus fulvo fasciculatis, seg- mentorum marginibus posticisfulvis, antennis basi pedibusque nigris, tarsis basi tibiisgue piceis, alls limpidis fusco bimaculatis. Body black with a brown covering : head thickly clothed above witli black hairs and beneath with hoary hairs ; face adorned with a thick tuft of lawny hairs : eyes bronze, parted above by a broad interval ; fore part flat, composed of large facets : sucker black, stout, clothed with black hairs ; first and second joints of the feelers black, beset with black bristles : chest and breast clothed with black hairs ; abdomen tapering from the base to the tip, narrower and very nnich longer than the chest, thinly clothed with dull, pule tawny hairs, which form a tuft on each side of the base ; hind borders of the segments dull, pale tawny, legs black, clothed with black hairs, beset with black bristles ; feet towards the base and shanks pitchy : wings colourless, adorned with two dark brown spots ; the first very large, resting on the fore border and approaching very near to the tip, and to the adjoining hind border; the second smaller on the hind border at half the length of the wing ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black, pitchy towards the base ; poisers tawny, with pitchy knobs. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. North America. 103 PSEUDOllUS, n. g. Antennis aiticulus 3us subovatus, compvessus, dilatatus, lo et 2o fere liiplo longior: tlioiax giblnis : alls areolae subinarginales ties ; aicolie pos- tica; quinque, 4a subclausa avit clausa ; areola la inferior clausa. Third joint of the feelers nearly oval, much deepened and flattened, nearly thrice the length of ihe preceding joints : chest gibbous, or rising into a prominent cone, whose tip is slightly furrowed : three subniargiual aieolets ; five posterior areolets ; the fourth nearly closed or quite closed by the abrupt downward curve of the vein which forms its outer side ; fust inferior areolet closed. PsEUDOHUs PioEUs, Plate 4, fig. 5. Fern. Picem, ahdnminis apicefernigineo, antetmis rttfia basi ferrvgiTieis, articulo 2o nigro, pedibus piceis, tibiis basifulvis, tarsis posticis bast Jlavis, alls antic e fulvis fuscoque unimaculalis pusticS cinereis, apice fuscis. Body pitchy, shining ; thinly clothed with short black hairs : head 1)hick, transverse, as broad as the chest : eyes black ; facets very small : sucker black, its tip clothed with pale yellow hairs ; palpi dark ferruginous, clolhed with tawny hairs : feelers as long as the head, first and second joints clothed with a few bhick bristles; first joint dark ferruginous; se- cond black ; third bright pale red : abdomen pitchy, shining, about twice the length of the chest, linear for half the length from the base, tapering slightly from thence to the tip, which is ferruginous: legs pitchy, shining, beset with black bristles, which are mostly on the shanks ; shanks tawny at the base ; claws black ; foot-cushions tawny ; hind feet yellow at the base': wings tawny beneath the fore border, gray towards the hind border for more than two-thirds from the base, dark brown from thence to the tips ; a large brown spot at one-third of the length of Ihe tawny part ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 17 lines. South America. INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. MORIMNA, u. g. Corpus dense pilosum : faeies subproducta, setis longis liirsiUa : alls areola 4a postica inarginem versus clausa ; areola la inferior ad margiuem claiisa. Body thickly clothed wilh short hairs: face prominent, hesct with long bristles towards the epistoma : fourth posterior areolct of the wing closed near the border ; firet inferior areolet closed on the border where the wing is notched. MoRiMNA MALLornoiiiDES, Plate 4, fig. 2. Mas. Atra, thorace antico scutello ahdomineque flavo hirtis, abdomine apicetn veisus purpurea aut viridi niiente, anlennis pedibusqtte nigris, tarsis pieeis, alls nigro-purpureis. Body deep black, thickly clothed with short black hairs : head clothed with longer black hairs, adorned with a ferruginous covering, beset behind and beneath with black bristles ; face beset with long black bristles towards the epistoma : eyes bronzed ; fore part flat, its facets much larger than those elsewhere: sucker black, clothed at the tip with short yellow hairs ; palpi black, thickly beset with black bristles: feelers black ; first and second joints of equal length, beset with black bristles : chest beset on each side and behind with black bristles : abdomen slightly tapering from the base to the tip, shorter than the chest, fringed on each side, purple or metallic-green and shining from the middle to the tip, which is clothed with yellow hairs : legs black, fringed with black hairs, beset wilh black bristles ; feet pitchy ; foot-cushions tawny ; hind shanks rather long ; tip- spines of the fore-shanks stout, curved : wings blackish, adorned with pur- ple reflections, wing-ribs, veins and poisers black. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. Columbia. 105 Genus LAPHRIA, Fubr. Laphiua METALLi, Fein. Cupreo-purpurea, glaucescens, nigro lilrta, anlennis pedibusgue niijris, alis fuscis. Body linear, vatlier broad, dark coppery-purple, slightly tinged with blue ; head covered with dark tawny down, clothed with hoary hairs, having a lew black hairs on the face and on each side of the crowu, thickly fringed with black bristles behind the eyes ; tubercle of the eyelets armed with two long black bristles ; face slightly prominent towards the episloma, thickly beset with long black bristles : eyes black ; fore part nearly (lat, its facets larger than those elsewhere : sucker black, clothed at the tip with short tawny hairs ; feelers black : chest, breast and sides of the abdomen clothed with short black hairs : abdomen much longer than the chest; a thick tufit of black bristles on each side at the base: legs black, stout, thickly clothed with black hairs ; shanks curved, especially the bind pair: wings dark browu ; wing-ribs and veins black. Lenglh of the body 12 lines ; of the wings 23 lines. Cape. NUSA, n. g. Antennis articulus 2us lo brevier; 3us subclavatus, lo paullo longior et multo latior ; femora giaeilia; tibiae posticse subcurvue : alis areola la postica ab margine remota; 2a el 3a apevta; 4a prope marginem clausa. Second joint of the feelers shorter than the first ; third slightly club- shaped, a little longer and much broader than the first: thighs slender; hind-shanks slightly curved : first posterior areolet of the wing closed at a long distance from the border ; second and third open ; fourth closed near the border. NusA ^QUALis, Plate 4, fig. 4. Fern. Ftam-fusca, capile albido, thorace intlisduabus nigrn-fuscis ornalo, pectore cano, abdomine cano scv-fascialo, antennis pedibusque nigris, alis subcinereis. Body black: head adorned with a white covering which has a tawny tinge above, thickly clothed behind and beneath with white hairs, armed 106 INSECTA SAUNDKRSIANA. behind with a row of yellow spines, beset on the crown with a few black bristles ; two very long, stout black spines on the tubercle of the eyelets ; face thinly clothed with white liairs, armed with some white spines, which are mostly towards the epistoma : eyes black ; fore part flat, its facets very large: sucker and palpi Wack, the latti-r clothed with black hairs: feelers black; first and second joints beset with a few black bristles : chest yel- lowish-brown, thinly clothed with black hairs, adorned with two blackish- brown stripes; sides and hind part beset with some black and tawny bristles; breast hoary, partly clothed with white hairs: abdomen linear, a little narrower and much longer than the chest, thinly clotlicd with short tawny hairs, beset on each side at the base with a few tawny bristles ; hind borders of the segments adorned with hoary bands which are widened on each side into triangular spots : legs black, thinly clothed with short hoary hairs, beset with some pale yellow bristles ; foot-cushions tawny : wings pale gray ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base and along the fore border ; poisers tawny. Length of body C lines ; of the wings 1 1 lines. East India. NusA FoBMio, Fern. Nigra, fulvo tecta, capite subtus cano, pectore cineieo, anlennis pedibusque nigris, alis subcinereis. Body black, tinged with dark tawny: head adorned with a dull, pale tawny covering, hoary and clothed with white hairs behind and beneath, beset behind the eyes with black bristles ; two long black bristles on the tubercle of the eyelets ; face flat, clothed with a few hoary hairs, beset with some black and pale yellow bristles: eyes bronzed ; fore part nearly flat, its facets much larger than those elsewhere: sucker black, clothed at the tip with very short tawny hairs : feelers black ; first and second joints beset with a few black bristles ; second much shorter than the first ; third club- shaped, red towards the tip, broader and a little longer than the first joint : chest clothed with short black hairs, beset on each side and behind with a few black bristles : breast grayish : abdomen tapering from the base to the tip, narrower than the chest and full twice its length, thinly clothed vvilb pale yellow hairs, armed on each side with pale yellow spines ; tip black, shining, beset with long, stout, black bristles: legs black, clothed with pale yellow hairs, beset with pale yellow bristles; feet covered beneath with tijwny down, beset towards the tips with black bristles ; foot-cushions lor tawny; wings colourless. Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 10 lines. East India. ACURANA, n. g. Antennis articulus Uis 2o duplo longior ; 3us lo et 2o longior, sub- fusiformis: tibia) anteriores subrectse, posticiE valtle avcuatie : alis areola la poslica prope inargiuem clausa, 4a et areola inferior ab tnargine remotse. Head very thickly clothed with long hairs : second joint about half the length of the first; third longer than the fust and the second, very slightly spindle-shaped : four anterior shanks almost straight ; hind pair much curved : first posterior areolet of the wing closed near the border ; fourth closed at some distance from the border ; inferior areolet closeil at some distance from the border. AcuRANA 6-FAsciATA, Fem. l\i(/ra, ahdomine nigro-fusco fasciis sexfulvis ornalo, antennis pedibusqne nigris libiis anterioribus fulvis, alls sublimpidis . Body black : head thickly and completely clothed with long hoary hairs, beset behind the eyes with black bristles: eyes black; fore part nearly flat, its facets much larger than those elsewhere : sucker black, clothed at the tip with tawny hairs ; palpi black, beset with black bristles : feelers black ; fust joint clothed with long hoary hairs ; second and third beset with .short black bristles, second about half the length of the first ; third longer than the first and the second, very slightly spindle-shaped ; chest and breast thinly clothed with short tawny hairs : abdomen dark brown, nearly linear, much longer but hardly narrower than the chest, conical at the tip, clothed with short, pale yellow hairs, these are most pre- valent on the broad pale tawny bantls which adorn the hind borders of the segments: legs black, clothed with pale yellow hairs; thighs thick, espe- cially the hind pair ; four anterior shanks tawny, almost straight ; hind pair much curved ; hind-feet and tips of hind-shanks clothed with short tawny hairs; claws towards the base and foot- cushions tawny: wings almost colourless ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins pitchy, tawny towards the base 108 INSECTA SA[JNDEHSTANA. and along the fore bolder ; poisers tawny. Length o( the body ti — 7 lines ; of the wings 9 — 11 lines. East India. SCANDON, n. g. Facies dens^ setosa: antennis articulus 2us lo vix brevior; 3us sub- fusiformis, lo et 2o fere diiplo longior: alis areola 4a postioa aperta. Face thickly beset with bristles : second joint of the feelers hardly shorter than the first : third slightly spindle-shaped, nearly twice the length of the first and of the second, conical and slightly oblique at the tip : tip of the abdomen of the female armed with a circlet of spines : fourth posterior areolct of the wing quite open to the border. SOANDON COMPAOTUS, Plate 4, fig. 7. Fem. Cinereo-picem, capite thoracis vittis duabus pectnreque aureis, tkoracc vittis inbus fuscis ornato, abdomine cupreo-purpureo latcribus aureo maculalis, antennis nigris, femoribus rufis, tibiis flavis apice nigris, tarsis nigris basi flavis, alis subcinereis ad cnstam subfuims. Body black : head as broad as the chesi, adorned with a golden co- vering, having a few black hairs about the eyelets and on each side of the crown, beset behind the eyes with a row of black bristles, thickly clothed beneath with white hairs; face prominent towards the epistoma and thickly beset with pale yellow bristles : eyes black ; fore part flat, its facets very much larger than those elsewhere : sucker black, clothed at the tip with short pale hairs ; palpi black, clothed with long black hairs : feelers black ; first joint beset with black bristles: neck armed with a cross row of black bristles : chest very stout, pitchy, with a gray tinge which is inter- rupted by three slender brown stripes ; it has also two golden stripes, and each of these is connected by two oblique bands, with the golden covering which adorns the sides and the breast ; chest thickly clothed with black hairs, beset on each side and behind with some black spines and bristles : a convex pale golden lobe on each side of the hind chest : abdomen cop- pery-purple, tapering from the base to the tip, thinly clothed with very short pale yellow hairs ; first segment anned on each side with a cluster of white spines ; sixth and following segments black, transversely striated ; a pale golden spot on each side of every segment: underside tinged with brown, clothed with long pale yellow hairs ; legs stout, clothed with very DIPTERA. 109 short, black liairs, aimed with bhiok spines ; thighs red, clotlied with wliite hairs ; shanks pale yellow, with black tips ; feet black, yellow at the base ; claws ferruginous at the base ; foot-cushions pale tawny : wings pale gray with a slight tawny tinge along the fore border ; wing-ribs and veins fer- ruginous, the latter pitchy towards the tips ; poiscrs pale ferruginous. Length of the body 6J — 7J lines ; of the wings 10 — 12 lines. New South Wales. CHOERADES, n. g. Corpus crassum : antennis articulus lus 2o duplo longior ; 3us lo et 2o fere duplo longior : femora postica crassa ; tibife posticae subarcuatae : ala: longae ; areola la postica aperta ; 4a et areola inferior prope inarginem clausse. Body stout: second joint of the feelers not more than half the length of the first ; third linear for half the length from the base, very slightly tapering from thence to the tip, nearly twice the length of the first and second joints : hind thighs stout; hind shanks slightly curved: wings long; first posterior areolet quite open; fourth closed near the border; inferior areolet closed near the border. Ch(erades AURioENA, Plate 4, fig. 8. Fem. Niger, thorace vittis dvabvs fulvis maculisque sex atireis ornaln,ab- dominis lateribus aureo maeulatis, antennis nigris, pedibus fulvis, femoribus rufescentibus, tarsis nigris basi fulvis, alis fulvis apice margineque postico ciiiereis. Body black : head adorned with a golden covering, clothed with golden hairs ; two black bristles on the eyelets ; a row of black bristles behind the eyes; face very prominent towards the epistoma, beset with four very long and with four shorter bristles : eyes black ; fore part black ; ils facets very much larger than those elsewhere : sucker black, clothed at the base and at the tip with short tawny hairs ; palpi black, clothed with black hairs : feelers black ; first and second joints beset with short black bristles : chest adorned with three golden marks on each side, thinly clothed with short tawny hairs ; two indistinct dark tawny stripes on the back, and an ohliiiue lawny band .along the suture on each side : .abdomen linear, q INSliCTA HAUNDKHSIANA. rounded towaids the tip, a little uaiiowei than the chest and less than twice its length ; sides of the segments adorned with golden spots : legs tawny, clotlied with short tawny hairs and with a few tawny bristles ; feet black, first joint tawny, thighs reddish ; foot-cushions tawny : wings bright tawny, dark gray at the tips and along the hind border ; wing-ribs dark ferruginous ; veins ferruginous, black at the tips and along the fore border ; poisers bright pale yellow. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. Java or Sumatra. PHELLUS, n. g. Pedes poslice tibiis larsisque dense hirlis : alis areola niarginalis aperta ; areola; subraarginales diia; ; areolae postica: ejuatuor, la et 4a ad discum product£c, 2a et 3a breves ; areola la inferior clausa; areolse dis- coidales quatuor. Represents the Malhphnra of America. Hind-shanks and hind-feet thickly clothed with hairs : marginal areolet open at its tip : two submar- ginal areolets, the vein between them forming near the base a slightly ob- tuse angle, where it emits a stump which is full twice the length of its short side, and in a nearly direct line with its longer side ; four posterior areolets, the first and the fourth running up into the disk ; the second and the third shallow ; first inferior areolet closed near the hind border ; four discoidal areolets. Phellus (jlaucus, Plate 4, fig. 9. Niger, pilisjlavis nigrisque hirlns, abdomine cyaneo nigro-piloso basi pilis fiavis dense hirto, antennis basiferrugineis, pedibus nigris nigro-hirtu, tibiis poslicis apice tarsisque poslicis basi flavo-hirtis, alis cinereis basi vittaque picds. Body black : head ferruginous above and in front, clothed with yel- lowish down and short hairs, most thickly beset in front with long bright pale tawny bristles, thickly clothed behind and beneath with pale yellow hairs : eyes black ; all the facets very small, but slightly increasing in size towards the fore part ; sucker black : first and second joints of the feeler.s ferruginous, first clothed with short pale yellow hairs : breast and hind part of the chest thickly clothed with pale yellow hairs ; a few black hairs DIPTERA. Ill and ferruginous bristles on each side of the scutcheon : abdomen bright deep blue, tapering from the base to the tip, near twice the length of the chest, clothed with short black hairs, and having towards the lip and be- neath a few pale yellow liaiis ; first and second segments thickly clothed above with pale yellow hairs : legs black, slout, thickly clothed with short black hairs ; tips of the feet clothed with tawny liairs ; foot-cushions tawny ; claws ferruginous at the base ; first and second joints of hind-feet and tips of hind-shanks clothed with pale yellow hairs; hairs most thick on the hind-shanks and hind-feet ; four front-shanks slightly curved : tips of mid- dle shanks hooked ; wings gray, pitchy at the base, where a pitchy streak proceeds for some distance beneath the fore border ; wing-ribs and veins black, the latter bordered wilh yellowish-brown ; poisers black. Length of the body 20 lines ; of the wings 36 lines. West A\istralia. Genus MALLOPHOBA, Muct/wirt. Mallophora xylocopiides. Atra, antennis pedibusgtte niyris, pedibiis niffro-hirlu, tibiis larsisque posticis feiTugineo-ciliatis, tarsis poslicis apice albo-fasciculalis, alis nigro-cyaneis. Body deep black, thickly clothed with short black hairs : crown of the head adorned with a ferruginous covering ; fore part of the face thickly beset with black and ferruginous bristles : mouth mostly pitchy ; palpi very thickly beset with black bristles, which have ferruginous tips : legs thickly clothed with black hairs ; hind-shanks and hind-feet very deeply fringed, their hairs on the outer side mostly ferruginous ; a small tuft of white hairs at the tip of each hind-foot : wings blackish, adorned with blue reflections, paler on the disks of the areolets and towards the tips, where the reflections are purple ; wing-ribs, veins and poisers black. Length of the body 14 lines ; of the wings 30 lines. Pava. INSECTA 8AUNUERSIANA. MaLLOPHOUA FASCtATA, Feiu. Picea, ihorace vitlis tribus ferrtigineis oniato, scutello ferrugineo, abdo- mine/asviis ni(/ris fiavisqtie hirto, antennis pedibtisque nigris, tibiis sublns bast ferruc/ineis, tibiis posticis basi supra fiavo-hirlis, alis fuscis albido fasciatis. Body pitchy, clothed with short black hairs : head adorned with a tuft of yellowish-white hairs on each side beneath; face armed with ferru- ginous down, very convex towards the epistoma, where it is beset with long, black and pale yellow spines and bristles : eyes slightly bron/.ed ; fore part flat, its facets much larger than those elsewhere : sucker black, clothed at the lip with tawny hairs: palpi dark red, sometimes black, thickly beset with black bristles : feelers black : chest adorned with three dark ferrugi- nous stripes ; scutcheon ferruyinoiis : abdomen adorned xvith alternate bands of black and pale yellow hairs, entirely clothed towards the tip with tawny huivs : legs black, clothed with black hairs and bristles ; shanks dark fer- ruginous beneath towards the base ; foot-cushions bright tawny ; hind- shanks clothed with bright yellow hairs towards the base above : wings brown, blackish-brown beneath the fore border towards the base : middle part occupied by a very broad whitish band ; wing-ribs and veins black, the latter i)ale yellow in the white part of the wing ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 10—12 lines ; of the wings 24 lines. Para. Mallophora opposita, Feni. Atra, scutello abdominisque fusciis tribus Jlavo-hirtis, antennis nigris basi ru/is, pedibus piveis, tarsis anterioribus genubusque rufis, tibiis posticis Jlavo-hirtis, alis fuscis. Body deep black, thickly clothed with black hairs : head adorned above with a dark ferruginous covering, very thickly clothed behind and beneath with bright pale yellow hairs ; face in front convex and very thickly beset with black bristles, among which a few pale yellow bristles are mingled ; a row of black bristles behind the eyes : eyes black ; fore part flat, its facets larger than those elsewhere : sucker clothed at the tip with pale tawny hairs ; palpi dark red, beset with black bristles : fefcleis black ; first and second joints red, beset with black bristles : sides and hind DIPTKUA. 113 part of tlie chesl beset with a few black bristles ; scutclieon atlonied with a thick tuft of bright pale yellow hairs : abdomen adorned with three bands of bright pale yellow hairs, which occupy more than half the length from the base ; a few pale yellow hairs on the tip : legs pitchy, thickly clothed with black hairs ; knees red ; feet armed with black spines ; claws towards the base and foot-cushions tawny ; hind-shanks clothed with bright pule yel- low hairs ; four front feet dark red : wings brown, adorned with purple reflections; wing-ribs dark ferruginous ; veins black, dark ferruginous to- wards the base ; poisers ferruginous. Length of the body 5i — 7 lines ; of the wings 14 — 18 lines. Brazil. " Malloi'hora contraria, Mas. Atra, capita subtus Jlavo, thorace nigro-fusco, antennis nigris basi futvis, femoribus nigris, tibiis tarsisquc anterior ibun riijis, tibiis tarsisque posticis piveis, alis nigro-fuscis. Body deep black, clothed with black hairs: head adorned above with a ferruginous covering, pale yellow behind and beneath, where it is thickly clothed with yellowish-white hairs, beset behind the eyes with black bristles ; face convex and thickly beset with black bristles in front : eyes slightly bronzed : sucker clothed at the tip with yellow hairs ; palpi very thickly beset with black bristles : feelers black ; first and second joints tawny, beset with black bristles : chest and breast slightly tinged with very dark brown : thighs black, clothed with black hairs, red totvards the tips ; claws black, tawny towards the base ; foot-cushions tawny ; four front-shanks and feet red ; four front shanks thickly clothed with bright pale yellow hairs above and thinly with black hairs beneath ; four front feet clothed with pale tawny hairs, armed with black and pale red spines ; hind-shanks and hind- feet pitchy, clothed with short black and long white hairs, beset with black bristles and .spines: wings dark brown, adorned with purple reflections; wing-ribs and veins dark ferruginous ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 7 lines; of the wings 16 lines. South America. ISSECTA SAUNDEESIANA. Mallophora ciliata, Mas. Nigra, Jlttvo-hirta, thoracis disco abdominis apice venireque nigro-hirlis, antennis nigris bad rufis, pedibits piceis, tarsis posticis basi tibiisque posticis nigra cilialis, tarsis posticis albido hirlis, aiis fuscis. Body black, thicltly clothed with slioit black hairs: head adorned above with a tawny covering, pale yellow and thickly clothed with pale yellow hairs behind and beneath ; a few black hairs on each side of the crown ; face very prominent in front, where ilws most thickly clothed with bright pale yellow hairs ; sucker clothed at the tip with tawny hairs ; palpi beset with black bristles : feelers black ; first and second joints red, beset with black bristles ; eyes bronzed : chest clothed in front and on the scutcheon with yellow hairs : abdomen, excepting the tip and the under side, thickly clothed xvith yellow hairs : legs pitchy, thickly clothed with black hairs, beset with black bristles ; claws black ; hind-feet towards the base and hind-shanks deeply fringed with black hairs ; lips of the hind- feet clothed with whitish hairs ; wings brown, adorned with purple reflec- tions ; wing-ribs, veins and poisers pitchy. Length of the body 73 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. Genus TRUPANEA, Macquart. TaUI'ANEA UNIVENTKIS, MaS. Fusca, capite fulvescente, thorace vitlis quatuor nigris ornalo, abdomine subfulvo-cano, antennis nigris, pedibus cinereo-nigris, alls subfulvis apice cinereis. Body broivn : head adorned with a lawny covering, clothed behind and beneath with pale tawny hairs, armed behind with black spines ; face prominent, beset with tawny bristles ; epistoma armed wilh tawny spines, which do not exceed twelve in number : eyes bronze-black ; fore part flat, its facets not larger than those elsewhere : sucker and palpi black, the latter beset with long tawny bristles : chest beset with very short black bristles, armed on each side with a few black spines, adorned with four black stripes, of which the inner pair are slender and linear, the outer pair are short, broad and interrupted : uhdomcn hoary, with a slight tawny tinge, DIPTERA. 1 1 T) thinly clotlied with short whitisli hairs, armed on each side wilh one bhick and a few yellow spines, about twice the length of the chest : legs black, tinged with gray, clothed with short, pale tawny hairs, armed with black spines ; claws pitchy at the base ; foot-cushions tawny : wings tinged with dark tawny, gray towards the tips ; wing ribs and veins black ; veins pitchy towards the base and along the fore border ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 14 lines ; of the wings 21 lines. East India. TrUPANEA TELIFEtlA, Fem. Nigi'O-fmca, capite thoracisquc vittis Iribm fulvis, venire cinereo segmen- torum marginibus posticis fulvis, antennis pedibusque nigris,femori- bus xttblus tibiisqiie rujis, alls subfuscis apice cinereis. Body black : head adorned with a tawny covering : a few black bristles and pale yellow hairs on the crown and adjoining part of the face, which towards the epistoma is prominent and armed with a cluster of about twelve pale yellow spines, and in front of these there are four black spines on each side of the peristoma; eyes black ; fore part flat and composed of large facets : palpi clothed with long, pale tawny bristles : chest and breast dull pale brownish tawny ; breast paler than the chest, whose disk is brown and adorned with three indistinct tawny stripes ; scutcheon and sides of the chest armed with some black spines : abdomen blackish brown, clothed with short black hairs, long and slender, tapering from the base to the tip, nar- rower than the chest and more than twice its length ; hind borders of the segments pale brown above, tawny on the under side which is gray : legs black, clothed with short, pale tawny hairs, armed with black spines ; thighs beneath and shanks red ; foot-eushions tawny : wings pale clear brown ; tips gray ; wing-ribs and veins black ; veins ferruginous at the base and along the fore border ; poisers tawny. Lengthof the body 13 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. East India. 116 INSECTA SAUNDEHSIANA. ThCPANEA SAOITTIFEBA, Feill. Fusca, capite fuh'cscente, ihorace vittis qualuov obseiirioribtis ornalo, scu- tello melathorace peclnreque canis, abdominis segmeiitorum marginibus posticis fulvis, venire cinereo, antennis nigris, pedibics piceis subtus ferrugineis, alis timpidis ad discum mbfuhis cinereo variU apice cinereis. Head adorned with a tawny covering;, clothed with a few ])ale tawny hairs, lieset behind the eyes with a fringe of black bristles, thickly clothed beneath with whitish hairs ; face prominent towards tlic episloma and aiTiied with above twelve yellowish-white spines ; three black spines along each side of the peristoma; eyes black; fore part nearly flat, its facets larger than those elsewhere: sucker and palpi black, the latter beset with long black bristles ; feelers black ; first and second joints beset with black bristles ; third spindle-shaped ; bristle linear, slender, longer than the third joint : chest pale broivn, armed on each side and behind with black spines, adorned with four broivn stripes, of which the outer pair are inter- rupted ; scutcheon, hind chest and breast hoary : abdomen dark brown, tapering from the base to the tip which is black and shining, clothed with very short black hairs, full twice the length of the chest; first segment armed on each side with a stout black spine in a cluster of pale yellow hairs ; second and following segments armed on each side with one or more pale yellow spines ; three rows of black dots across the base of the second segment ; under side gray, hind borders of the segments tawny : legs pitchy, mostly ferruginous beneath, clothed with short hoary hairs, armed with black spines ; claws black, red at the base ; foot-cushions pale tawny : wings pale gray towards the tips, colourless at the base and with a slight tawny tinge in the middle part, the disks of whose areolets are pale gray ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins pitchy, ferruginous at the base and along the fore border; poisers pale tawny. Length of the body 12 lines; of the wings 17 lines. East India. TmiPANPA CAPTANS, Feiii. Fiiica, eapile thoracisqtie vittis tiibus fuhis, pectore cineren, ahdomine nigra, antennis nigris urticuln iofutvo, pedibus fulvis, lihiis poslicis apiee tarsisque nigris, alisfuscis. Body black : head adorned with a tawny covering, tliickly clothed be- hind and beneath witli tawny hairs ; a row of black bristles behind the eyes ; crown black, thinly clothed with black hairs ; a few black and yellow hairs on the face near the feelers ; face prominent towards the epistoma and beset with black and pale yellow bristles, the latter are stouter and more numerous than Ihe former ; sides of the peristoma thickly beset with black bristles : eyes brassy black ; fore part nearly flat, its facets lary;er than those elsewhere : palpi thickly beset with long black bristles : feelers black ; first and second joints beset with black bristles ; second tawny : chest brown, thinly clothed with black hairs and bristles, the latter are longer and more numerous on the hind part, adorned with three indistinct dark tawny stripes ; sides yellowish-brown ; breast grayish : abdomen slightly obconical, a little narrower and much longer than the chest, clothed above with black hairs, beneath with pale tawny hairs : legs stout, bright taivng, clothed with pale yellow hairs, armed with black spines ; feet and tips of the hind-shanks black, clothed with black hairs ; claws at the base and foot-cushions tawny : wings dark brown ; wing-ribs and veins black ; poisers pitchy. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. South America. Thdpanea candens. Fern. Nigra, thnrace rufo quadrivitlato, pectore ferntginco, abdamine caudaln segmentormn margitiibm pnslicis ftilvo bimnculalis, antennis nigris, pedibiis rufis, alis flavo-fuscis. Body black : head adorned with a bright tawny covering, beset behind the eyes with a row of black bristles, clothed behind and beneath with pale lawny hairs, which have a greenish white hue towards the base ; crown black, clothed with a few black hairs ; face rather prominent, beset with black and pale yellow bristles, the former are near the feelers and less nu- merous than the latter which are more towards the epistoma : eyes black ; 118 TNSECTA SAlJNDEItSIANA lore part flat ; all tlic facets very small ; thickly beset with black bristles : feelers black ; fust and second joints beset with black bristles ; third spindle- shaped, longer ; bristle much longer than the third joint: chest clothed with black hairs and bristles, adorned with four dark red stnpes, the hair on each side connected by an oblique dark red band ; sides and breast pale ferruginous, partly clothed with pale greenish hairs : abdomen about twice the length of the chest, obconical for two thirds of the length from the base, compressed, shining and tapering like a tail from thence to the tip, clothed with black hairs above and with pale yellow hairs beneath ; a iri- angular lawny spot on each side of the hind border of every segment excepting the tail ; under side adorned with a tawny covering in like manner : legs red, beset with black hairs, bristles and spines ; claws black ; foot-cushions tawny : wings yellowish-brown ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, fer- ruginous at the base and along the fore border ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 10 lines ; of the wings 15 lines. South America. Tuepanea mitescens, Fern. Bufa, capite aureo, thorace vitlis duabus nigris ornato, abdomine nigra sublus fuho apice compresso nitenle, antennis nigris articulo 2o basi fulvo, pedibus rufis, femoribus nigra vittatis, alisfuscis apice cinereis. Head adorned with gold colour, tawny and thickly clothed with pule yellow hairs behind and beneath, armed behind the eyes with black spines ; crown clothed with black hairs ; face clothed with black and pale yellow hairs, convex towards the epistoma and there thickly beset with longer pale yellow bristles: eyes bronzed ; fore part flat, its facets larger than those elsewhere : sucker black, clothed at the tip with short tawny hairs ; palpi black, clothed with long black hairs : feelers black ; first and second joints beset with short black bristles; second a little shorter than the first, tawny ■towards the base ; third spindle-shaped, nearly as long as the first and the second ; bristle linear, slightly curved, much longer than the third joint ; chest dark red, adorned uiith two parallel slender black utripes, thinly clothed with black hairs, beset on each side and behind with some black bristles : breast tawny, clothed like the sides of the chest with greenish hairs : ab- domen black above, pale tawny beneath, shining and compressed from two- thirds of the length to the tip, clothed on each side with long pale yellow hairs, a little narrower than the chest at the base, and more than twice its DIT-TEnA. 119 length : legs red, clollied with pale yellow liairs, amied with black sjjines ; thitjhs streaked with black ; shanks and feet covered bcneatli with tawny down ; claws black ; foot-cushions foiriiginous : wings brown, tinged with gray iiear the tips of the fore borders; wing-ribs and veins black; veins (lark red beneath the fore border; poisers tawny. Length of the body 10 lines ; of the wings 15 lines. South America. TnUPANEA SUDSTITULA, Mas. Ruf a, thoracis vittis qualuor nigrli, capitc fulvo, pectore ferruyiMo,ab- domine nigra maculis luteralibus ventreque futvis,antennis nii/ris basi fulvis, pedibus rujis, fcmoribus nigra vittatis, alls fuscis casta apice- que cinereis. Head adorned with a tawny covering, which has a golden hue in front, clothed above with a few black hairs, beset behind the eyes with black bristles, thickly clothed behind and beneath with pale yellow hairs ; face thickly beset with pale yellow bristles : eyes brassy-black ; fore part flat, its facets much larger than those elsewhere : sucker black ; its tip clothed with pale tjiwny hairs ; palpi black, beset with long black bristles : feelers black ; first and second joints dark tawny, beset with short black bristles ; third spindle-shaped, much longer than the first or the se- cond ; bristle about twice the length of the third joint, slightly widened at the tip : chest dark red, adorned ivith four indistinct black stripes, beset with a few black bristles, clothed on each side and behind with pale yellow hairs ; hairs about the wings tin<;ed with green, especially towards the base : breast ferruginous, partly clothed with pale yellow hairs : abdomen black, tapering from the base to the tip, nearly twice the length of the chest, clothed on each side and beneath with pale yellow hairs ; segments adorned on each side with tawny triangular spots, which successively in- crease in size towards the tip ; under side tawny ; lip and its appendages red, shining : legs red, clothed with black hairs and bristles ; thighs striped with black, clothed with pale yellow hairs ; shanks and feet covered with tawny down ; feet darker towards the tips ; claws black ; foot-cushions tawny : wings brown, dark gray on the fore border at the tip ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, ferruginous at the base; poisers pale tawny, with pale yellow knobs. South America. INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. Trupanea PEUFECTA, Mas. Fulva, ihorace nigra quadrivillulo, abdomine supra nigra segmenlorum lateribus fulvo maculalis, anlennis pedihmqve nigris, alis fmcis ad costam apice cinereis. Body black : head adorned with a tawny covering, whicli has a golden hue in front, thinly clothed above with black hairs, beset behind with black bristles, thickly clothed behind and beneath with tawny hairs ; face beset with bright lawny bristles, and towards the crown with a very few black bristles : eyes adorned with indistinct colours ; fore part flat, composed of large facets : sucker black, clothed at the tip with a few short tawny hairs : palpi black, beset with long black bristles : feelers black ; first and second joints beset with black bristles ; third spindle-shaped, much longer than the first and second ; bristle rather more than twice the length of the third joint, very slightly widened at the tip : chest and breast adorned with a tawny covering, ivhich on the chest is interrupted byfotir black stripes ; sides and hind-chest beset with a few black bristles : breast partly clothed with tawny hairs : abdomen tapering from the base to the tip, nearly twice the length of the chest, clothed on each side with tawny hairs, which abound most towards the base, and there form tufts on the first segment ; a trian- gular tawny spot on the side of each segment, under side tawn;/ ; tip and appendages black, shining: legs black, clothed with black hairs and bristles ; thighs and shanks also clothed with tawny hairs ; foot-cushions tawny : wings brown, dark gray on the fore border at the tip ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black ; poisers pale tawny, with pale yellow knobs. Length of the body 5^ lines ; of the wings 9 Hues. South America. Trupanea contracta, Mas ct Fem. Fuho-cinerea, thorace vittis quntvor fuscis ornato, pectorc cano, abdomine nigra segmenlorum marginibus posticis ventreque futvis, untemiis nigris bnsi fulvis, pedibus fulvis, larsis posticis fcmoribusque nigris, alis snb/ulvis. Male. Head adorned with a pale tawny covering, thickly clothed with whitish hairs ; episloma armed with whitish spines, which are not less than twelve in number; a row of whitish bristles behind the eyes: eyes bronze- DIPTERA. 121 black ; fore part nearly flat, its facets larger than those elsewhere: sucker and palpi black ; palpi beset with long whitish bristles ; feelers black ; first and second joints tawny, clothed with short whitish hairs; third conical, tawny and rounded at the base ; brislle slender, nearly thrice the length of the third joint ; chest gray with a tawny tiiujc, thinly beset with very short 1)lack bristles, armed on each side with a few black spines, adorned with four brown stripes, of which the side pair are indistinct ; scutcheon and liind part of the chest beset with long whitish hairs and spines ; breast hoary, thinly clothed with whitish hairs : abdomen btach, tapering from the base to ihe tip, less than twice the length of the chest, clothed with short white hairs ; sides, hind borders of the seymifnts and under side tawny : legs pale tawny, thickly clothed with whitisli hairs, armed with some black and whitish spines ; thighs and hind-feet black above, the latter dark tawny be- neath ; claws black ; foot-cushions tawny : wings with a very slight tawny tinge ; wing-ribs and veins pitchy ; veins tawny at the base and along the fore border ; poisers pale tawny. Fcm. Abdomen more than twice the length of the chest, black and compressed towards the tip ; poisers rather dark tawny. Length of the body 6i — 7 lines ; of the wings 10 — 18J lines. East India. Trupanea temeraria, Fern. Flttvo-fv-sca , capite fulvo, thorace nigra bivittato, peclore vano, abdomine nigro-fusco segmentorum marginibus posticis ferrugincis, antcnnis pedibusque nigris, tibiis anterioribus basi fulris, alts subfuscis apicc cinereis. Body black : head adorned with a tawny covering, paler and clothed with pale yellow hairs behind and beneath, armed behind the eyes with a row of black spines, beset with black bristles on each side of ihe crown; face convex towards the epistoma, beset with a few white hairs and bristles, anned with some yellow spines, these are on the epistoma and thence ex- lend to each side of the peristoma, which has also a black bristle and a black hair : eyes bronzed ; fore part nearly flat, its facets larger than those elsewhere: sucker clothed at the tip with pitchy hairs ; palpi clothed with long, pale yellow hairs: feelers black ; first and second joints thickly beset with short black bristles ; second much shorter than the fii'st : chest yel- lowish-brown, thinly clothed with very short black hairs, beset on each 1^^ INSECTA SAUNDEliSIANA. side and 1)(;l)ind with black bristles ; two black stripes on the disk ; breast hoary : abdomen slightly tapering from the base to the tip, narrower than the chest and more than twice its length, tinged with dark brown, clolhed with short black hairs, which have a hoary tinge on each side ; sides of the hind borders of the segments armed with black and white spines ; a cluster of tawny hairs and a long black spine on each side of the first segment ; under side pitchy: hind borders of the segments ferruginous : legs black, thickly clothed with short hoary hairs, armed with black spines ; four an- terior shanks tawny at the base ; foot-cushions tawny : wings brownish, dark gray at the tips and along part of the hind borders ; wing-ribs and veins black ; poisers dark tawny. Length of the body (ii lines ; of the wings 14 lines. One specimen described has a supernumerary little cross-vein between the second and third submarginal areolets. Tkupanea Calands, Fem. Ferruginca, capite rufo svbttis fiavo, abdomine pilis fulvis bifasciato, an- tennis nigris busi rufis,pedibus rnfis, tarsis piceis, alis fiiscis. Body dtill ferniginous, clothed with short black hairs : head red, pale yellow and clothed with pale yellow hairs behind and beneath ; a tuft of pale yellow hairs on the tubercle of the eyelets ; sides of the crown clothed with black hairs ; face shining, very convex in front, where it is thickly clolhed with pale yellow hairs ; sides of the peristoma beset with black bristles ; eyes slightly bronzed ; fore part nearly flat, its facets a little larger than those elsewhere : sucker and palpi l)lack ; palpi thickly clothed with black hairs : feelers black ; first and second joints red, beset with black bristles; second joint much shorter than the first: chest clothed with short black hairs, beset on each side and behind with black bristles : breast pale ferruginous, partly clothed with ferruginous hairs : abdomen obconical, not longer than the chest, clothed with short black hairs, adorned with two bands of pale tawny hairs, beset on each side of the base with a tuft of black bristles : legs red, clothed with black hairs, beset with black bristles ; feet pitchy ; claws black, red at the base ; foot-cushions ferrugi- nous ; hind-shanks thickly and deeply fringed with black hairs ; tips of the hind-feet adorned with white hairs : wings brown ; wing-ribs and veins ferruginous. Length of the body 9 lines; of the wings 21 lines. East India. TiiupANEA RUBifiiNis, Fenj. Ferruginea, capite flaw, thorace nigra vitiato, abdomine nigra maculis fulvis bivillalo, jnlis alhis quinquefasciata, segmentarum marginibus poslicis ferrugineis, antennis nigris, basi pedibusque rufis, alis sub- fuscis. Head adorned witli a yellow covering, tawny on llie crown, thickly clothed behind and beneath with pale yellow hairs, armed behind the eyes with black spines ; sides of the crown and tubercle of the eyelets beset with black bristles ; face convex in front, thickly clothed along the whole length with yellow hairs : eyes black ; fore part flat, its facets much larger than those elsewhere : sucker black, clothed at the tip with tawny hairs ; palpi black, beset with black bristles : feelers black ; first and second joints red, beset with a few black bristles ; first clothed with very few pale yellow hairs : chest dark ferruginous with some slender, indistinct, black stripes, clothed with short black hairs, beset with some black bristles on each side and behind : breast pale ferruginous, thinly clothed with hoary hairs : ab- domen black, adorned on each side with tawny spots, full twice the length of the chest, tapering from the base along near two-thirds of the length, com- pressed and slender from thence to the tip, adorned with five bands of white hairs : hind borders of the segments dark ferrwginons : legs red, clothed with whitish hairs, armed with black spines ; claws black, red at the base ; foot- cushions tawny : wings pale brown, rather darker at the tips ; a gray streak in the first submarginal areolet ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, ferru- ginous at the base and along the fore border ; poisers pitchy. Length of the body 13 lines; of the wings 19 lines. North America. Trupanea perfusilla, Mas. Nigra, flavo hirta, abdominis apice nigra hirto, antennis pedibusque nigris, tibiis rufis apice nigris, alisfuscis. Body black : head clothed with white hairs, beset behind the eyes with black bristles ; a few black hairs on the crown ; face flat, clothed with white hairs : eyes black; fore part nearly flat, its facets larger than those elsewhere : sucker, palpi and feelers black ; palpi and first and second 124 TNSBCTA SAUNDEUSIANA. joints of the feelers beset with black bristles: chest and brenst clnlhed with yellow hairs ; ehcst beset on each side and behind with blaek biislles: ab- domen slightly tapering from tlie base to the tij), a little longer than the chest, clot/ted with yellow hairs, and towards the tip with very short black hairs : legs stout, clothed with whitish hairs, armed with black spines ; claws red at the base; foot-cushions tawny; shanks red with black tips ; liind-sbanks fringed with short black hairs : wings dark brown; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, ferruginous at the base and along the fore border ; jjoisers tawny. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. United States. Trupanea producta, Mas. Cervina, thoracis disco nigra, vittis quatuor rv/is ornato, abdomine ferru- qineo inaculis nigris albisqtie vittato, antennis pcdibusque nigris alls iimpidis venarum marginihus suhfuscis. Covering of the head tawny above, whitish behind and beneath, where it is thickly clothed with whitish hairs ; a row of black spines behind the eyes and a few black bristles on the tubercle of the eyelets ; sides of the crown clothed with pale yellow hairs ; face most thickly beset with pale yellow hairs and bristles, convex in front : eyes bronzed ; fore part nearly flat, its facets larger than those elsewhere : sucker black, clothed at the tip with short tawny hairs ; palpi black, thickly clothed with long, pale yellow hairs : feelers black ; first and second joints beset with pale yellow bristles ; second red towards the base, much shorter than the first ; third slightly spindle-shaped, nearly as long as the first and the second, longer than the bristle; chest and breast pale fawn colour: chest thinly clothed with very short blaek hairs, beset on each side and behind with a few black spines and bristles ; disk hlacli, adorned with four dark red stripes : breast partly clothed with hoary hairs : abdomen ferruginous, tapering from the base to the tip, narrower than the chest and much more than twice its length, clothed with very short hoary and black hairs, armed with blaek spines along each side ; a large irregularly-triangular black spot on the back of each seg- ment, which on each side of its hind border is also adorned with a slightly triangular whitish spot ; tip black : legs black, thickly clothed with short hoary hairs, armed with black and white spines ; claws at the base and foot-cushions red : wings colourless, slightly tinged with brown along the Dri'TKKA. 1-^5 holders of the veins ; wiug-ribs ferniginous ; veins black ; iioiseis tawny. Length of the body 17 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. Cape. Trupanea peklonga, Mas et Fem. Cana, capile suhtiis albido, thorace vittis quatuor nigris omato, abdomine fvsco segmenlorum lateribus marginibus posticis vetilreque canis, an- tennis pedibusque nigris, tibiis nonnunquam riifis, alis subcmereis, ftisco variis, apice cinereii. Male. Covering of the head tawny above, whitish and cloihed with whitish hairs behind and beneath, beset behind the eyes with black bristles ; a few short black bristles on each side of the crown and on the tubercle of the eyelets ; face convex in front, clothed with pale yellow hairs and spines and with a few black bristles ; a few black spines on each side of the pe- ristoma : eyes bronzed ; fore part nearly flat, its facets larger than those elsewhere : sucker black, clothed at the tip with short hoavy hairs ; palpi black, clothed with long yellow hairs : feelers black ; first and second joints beset with black bristles ; second red at the base, much shorter than the first ; third slightly spindle-shaped, nearly as long as the first and the second joint and a little longer than the bristle : chest hoary, clothed with very short black hairs, beset on each side and behind with a few black bristles, adorned with four black stripes, of which the middle pair are nar- row and linear, and the outer pair elliptical and short : breast tawng, thinly clothed with hoary hairs : abdomen dark brown, more than twice the length of the chest, thinly clothed with very short hoary hairs, armed along each side with a few black spines, tapering from the base to the tip, which is black ; sides a>id hind borders of the segments atid the whole of the mider side hoary : legs black, clothed with very short hoary hairs, armed with black spines; shanks and feet covered beneath with tawny down ; shanks sometimes red ; claws at the base and foot-cushions tawny : wings slightly tinged with gray, brownish along the borders of the veins, darker gray at the tips ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, ferruginous at the base and along the fore border ; poisers tawny. Fem. No black bristles on the face ; sides of the crown clothed with pale yellow hairs : abdomen much more than twice the length of the chest, pitchy and shining towards the tip : legs red, clothed with short hoary 136 INSECTA SAUNDEKSIANA. hairs, armed with black spines ; knees and tips of the shanks and of the joints of the feel black. Length of the body 12 — 15 lines; of the wings 20 lines. South Africa. TnUPANEA POKRECTA, Mas. Cerviiw, capite subltis albidn, thoracis disco ftisco vittis pallidioribus duabmque nigris ornato, abdomine fmcn, apice venlreque ferrugineis, segmenlorum marginibus posticis canis, antennis nigris, pedibus rufis, alts limpidis venarum marginibus subfuscis. Covering of the head pale tawny, whitish and clothed with whitish hairs behind and beneath, beset behind the eyes with a row of black bristles ; a few pale yellow hairs on each side of the crown ; face promi- nent in front, thickly clothed wilh pale yellow hairs and bristles ; sides of the peristoma beset with black bristles : eyes bronze-black ; fore part nearly flat, its facets larger than those elsewhere : sucker black, clothed at the tip with short tawny hairs ; palpi black, thickly clothed with pale yellow hairs : feelers black ; first and second joints beset with a few short black bristles ; second not more than half the length of the first ; third spindle-shaped, as long as the first and the second, and a little longer than the bristle : chext and breast pale fawn-colour : chest tliinly clothed with very short black hail's, beset on each side and behind with a few black bristles and spines ; disk brown, adorned with indistinct paler stripes, and on each side with a black stripe : abdomen broiim, tapering from the base, more than twice the length of the chest, clothed with short black hairs, armed along each side with black spines; hind borders of the segments hoary ; under side and tip ferruginous : legs red, clothed with short hoary hairs, armed with black spines ; claws black ; foot-cushions tawny : wings colourless, slightly tinged with brown along the borders of the veins; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, ferruginous towards the base and along the fore border ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 14 lines ; of the wings 22 lines. Vi7 Genus ERAX, Macquarl. Ekax Pari'horus. Fulwus, thoracis vittis qualuor abdqmincqne nigris, hujux segmentorum marginibus pasticis venlrer/ue cinerei.i, antennis jiedibusqtie nigrix, alls subcinereis. Head adorned with a tawny covering, which lias a silky lustre, beset behind the eyes with blaek bristles, thickly clothed beneath with tawny hairs ; a few black hairs and bristles on the erown ; face very prominent, thickly beset with long, stout, black bristles : eyes bronzed ; a small por- tion of the fore part nearly flat, composed of large facets : sucker black, clothed at the tip with tawny hairs : palpi black, beset with long blaek bristles: feelers black ; first and second joints beset with black bristles; third oval, longer than the second , bristle hardly widened at the tip, about thrice the length of the third joint ; c/iext adorned loilli a dark tawny cmering, beset on each side and at the tip with a few black bristles, having four black stripes, of which the middle pair are straight and entire, the side pair irregular and interrupted : breast pale grayish tawny : abdomen black, tapering from the base to the tip, about twice ? the length of the chest, thinly clothed on each side with whitish hairs ; hind borders of the segments and under side gray : tegs black, clothed with black hairs and bristles ; foot-cushions dark tawny : wings pale brown ; wing-ribs and veins black ; stump on the vein between the submarginal areolets about thrice the length of the inner side of the angle whence it springs; poisers tawny. Length of the body II ? lines ; of the wings 16 lines. Columbia. Er.vx Mvgdon, Fem. Fulvus, thoracii vittis quatuor abdomineqtte nigris, htijus laterihus ven- treque futvis, antennis nigris, pedibus fitlvis, femoribus tibiisqiie ajiice nigris, alis subfuscis. Head adorned with a pale tawny covering, which has a silky lustre, having a very few black hairs and bristles on the crown, beset behind the eyes with a row of blaek bristles, thickly clothed beneath with white hairs ; lace slightly prominent, beset with very few black bristles, armed with eight 128 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. or ten pale yellow spines : eyes bronzed ; fore part Hat, composed of very large facets: sucker black, clothed at the tip with pale tawny hairs; palpi black, beset with long black bristles: feelers black ; first and second joints beset wilh short black bristles ; second joint not half the leuglh of the first i third spindle-shaped, shorter than the first ; bristle nearly twice the length of the third joint : chest dark tawny, beset on each side and behind with a few black bristles, adorned with four black stripes, of which the inner pair are straight and entire, the outer pair irregular and interrupted ; hind part hoary : breast pale tawny, with a hoary tinge: abdomen black, more than twice the length of the chest, tapering, ending in a tail, which is shining and compressed and about one-fourth of the whole length, thinly clothed with hoary hairs, which abound most on each side at the base ; sides and under side tawny, with a hoary covering : legs taivny, beset with black bristles and spines, which are most frequent on the feet ; tips of the tliighs and of the shanks black ; feet dark tawny, black lowai-ds the tips ; foot-cushions yellow : wings pale brown ; wing-ribs and veins black ; stump on the vein between the subinarginal areolets shorter than the inner side of the angle whence it springs ; poisers yellow. Length of the body 10 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. South America. Erax Potamon, Mas. Ferruyineus, thoracis vittis qiialuor abdomineque nigris, hujus apicefulvo, antennis pedibusque nigris, tibiis ftdvis apicc niyris, alis fuscis. Body black : head adorned in front with a tawny covering, whitish and clothed with white hairs behind and beneath ; crown and hind part beset wilh black bristles ; face very convex, beset with numerous stout black bristles : eyes bronzed ; fore part nearly flat, composed of large facets: sucker black, clothed at tlie tip with short tawny hairs; palpi black, clothed with long black hairs ! feelers black ; first and second joints beset with black bristles ; second not half the length of the first ; third spindle-shaped, a little shorter than the first; bristle not twice the length of the third joint: chest and breast adorned with a ferruginous covering ; four black stripes on the chest, which is beset on each side and behind with some black bristles ; breast with a hoary tinge : abdomen very slightly tapering from the base to the tip, much narrower than the chest and about twice its length, clothed for half the length from tlie base, and again to- DIPTEBA. 129 wards tlie lip with pale tawny hairs; sixth segment yellmuish brmvii, with a yellow hind border ; seventh tawny ; tip and appendages ferruginous, shin- ing, beset beneath with a few black bristles : legs hack, beset with black hairs and bristles ; shanks tawny, with black tips ; foot-cushions pitchy : wings dark brown ; wing-ribs and veins black ; angle of the vein between the submargindl areolets mucli rounded, with no stump ; poisers pale yel- low. Length of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. South America. EuAx Stimicon, Fem. Perrugineus, thoracis disco abdomineqtie piceis, hujus segmentorum mar- ginibtts posticisfiilvis, antennisfulvis apice nigris, pedibus ferrugi- neis, alls limpidis. Head pale tawny, whitish and clothed with white hairs behind and beneath, armed beliind the eyes with a few black and tawny spines ; a few white hairs and pale yellow bristles on each side of the crown ; face very convex, beset with white hairs and pale yellow spines: eyes bronzed ; fore part nearly flat, its facets larger than those elsewhere: sucker black, clothed at the tip with short, pale tawny hairs ; palpi dark tawny, beset with long, black bristles : feelers black ; first and second joints tawny, beset with sliort, black and pale yellow bristles ; second much shorter than the first ; third tawny at the base, tapering from near the base to the tip, as long as the first; bristle a little longer than the third joint: chest and breast ferrugi- nous, clothed here and there with a few short, black and hoary hairs ; disk of the chest almost pitchy ; sides and scutcheon armed with a few black spines; breast with a hoary tinge: abdomen pitchy, about twice the lenglh of the chest, clothed with short black and hoary hairs, slightly tapering from the base to the tip which is black and shining ; sides and hind borders of the segments tawny; first segment tawny, armed on each side with three black spines : legs pale ferruginous, clothed with short hoary hairs, armed with black spines ; knees black ; claws black, dark tawny at the base ; foot- cushions pale tawny : wings colourless, rather short ; wing-ribs and veins ferruginous, the latter black towards the tips ; angle of the vein between the siibmarginal areolets very distinct, slightly obtuse, its stump much more than twice the length of its inner side ; poisers pale tawny. Length of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 13 lines. Columbia. INSECTA SAnNDEKSIANA. Erax concolor, Fell). Flavo-fwcus, abdominis segmentorum margitiibus poslicis fuivis, anlennis nigris, pedibus riifis, femoribm nigro vittatis, alis fuhis. Body yellowish brown : head adorned with a tawny covering, whitish and clothed with whitish hairs behind and beneath, beset behind the eyes with yellow bristles ; face slightly convex and armed with pale yellow spines towards (he epistoma ; one or two black bristles on each side of the peristoma ; eyes bronzed ; fore part nearly flat, its facets a little larger than those elsewhere : sucker black, clothed at the tip with tawny hairs ; palpi black, beset with long black bristles : feelers black : chest thinly clothed with black hairs, beset on each side and behind with black bristles : abdomen clothed with short yellow hairs, narrower than the clicst and nearly twice its length, tapering from the base to the tip, which is black, shining and compressed ; hind borders of the segments tawny ; legs dark red, clothed with short pale yellow hairs, armed with black spines ; thighs striped with black ; claws black, red at the base; foot-cushions dark tawny : wings tawny ; wing-ribs and veins red, the latter pitchy towards the lips ; poiseis tawny. Length of the body 1 1 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. Erax asper, Mas. Maro-fuscus, capite pectoi'egue fultns, antcnnis pedibusque nigris, libiis rufis, alls siibfuh'is. Body black : head adorned with a tawny covering, yellow and clothed with pale yellow hairs behind and beneath, thickly beset behind the eyes with black bristles, clothed with black hairs on each side of the crown ; tubercle of the eyelets beset with black bristles ; face convex along nearly the whole length, very thickly clothed with pale yellow hairs, among which some black bristles are mingled: eyes brassy, fore part nearly flat; its facets larger than those elsewhere : sucker clothed at the tip with pale yellow hairs ; palpi very thickly beset with black bristles : feelers black ; first and second joints clothed with black hairs ; second not half the length of the first: chest covered with yellowish brown, thinly clothed with black hairs, beset on each side and behind with black bristles : breast dark tawny : abdomen mostly covered with yellmcish broum, tajjcring from the base to the tip, where it is shining, narrower than the chest and nearly twice its length, clothed with long pale yellow hairs, heset at the tip and on each side of the base with black bristles : legs black, clothed with short black and with longer pale yellow hairs, beset with black bristles and spines ; shanks dark red, with black tips ; fore-shanks covered beneath with tawny down ; foot-cushions tawny : wings with a slight tawny tinge : wing- ribs ferruginous ; veins black, ferruginous towards the baSe ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 10 lines ; of the wings 17 lines. Erax invakius, Fein. Cineretis, capitc stiblus albo, thoracis discn nigra viltis duabiis cinereis oiTiato, abdomine picen apice caudato segmentorum marginibus ifcnlre- que canis, antennis pedibusque nigris, alis fusco-cinereis. Body black : covering of the head pale tawny above, white behind and beneath, where it is thickly clothed with white hairs ; a row of black bristles behind the eyes ; two black bristles on the tubercle of the eyelets, and a few on each side of the crown ; face very convex in front, clothed with short pale tawny hairs and very thickly beset with long black bristles : eyes bronzed ; fore part flat, its facets much larger than those elsewhere : mouth clothed with white hairs ; palpi thickly beset with black bristles ; feelers black ; (irst and second joints beset with black bristles ; second not half the length of the (irst ; third conical, about one third of the length of the bristle, longer than the second joint: chest and breast grag with a lawny tinge : chest clothed with black hairs and with a few black bristles ; ■lis disk black vnth the exception of two stripes, which are joined to the gray kne on each side by two oblique bands : breast clothed with hoary hairs : abdomen pitchy, tapering from the base, more than twice the length of the chest, compressed and shining for full one-third of the length from the tip, thinly clothed with hoary hairs ; sides and hind borders of the segments above, and the whole of the under side hoary : legs black, clothed with black and hoary hairs, armed with black spines ; foot-cushions pitchy : wings brownish-gray ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black, ferruginous at the base ; stump on the submarginal vein very much longer than the inner side of the angle, whence it springs ; poisers tawny. Length of tlie body 9 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. Jamaica. 130 INSECTA SAUND?;liSIANA. Erax commiles, Fern. Feirugineus, capile fulvo, thoracis disco fusco villis tribus cinereis ornato, abdomine nigro opice caudato segmenlorum latenbus marginibusque posticis/uscis, antennis pedibmque nigris, tibiis fnlvis, alis fuscis. Head adorned with a tawuy covering, clothed behind and beneath with pale yellow hairs, beset behind the eyes with black bristles ; a few black bristles on each side of the crown, and two stout, long black bristles on the tubercle of the eyelets ; face very convex along most part of the length, thinly clothed with yellow hairs, beset with numerous stout black bristles : eyes brou/.ed ; fore part nearly flat, its facets larger than those elsewhere : mouth black, clothed with long yellow hairs, tawny at the tip ; palpi black, thickly beset with black hairs and bristles : feelers black ; first and second joints thickly beset witli black bristles ; second about half the length of the first ; third red at the base, tapering from near the base to the tip, longer than the second joint, but not one-third of the length of the bristle : chest and breast pale ferruginous ; chest thinly clothed with black hairs, beset on each side and behind with black bristles ; its disk brown, adorned with three gray stripes : abdomen black, tapering from the base, more than twice the length of the chest, shining and compressed for more than one-third of the length from the tip ; sides and hind borders of the segments from the first to the fourth brown : under side gray ; legs blade, clothed with short black and longer tawny hairs, armed with black spines ; shanks bright taivny, with black tips ; foot-cushions tawny : wings brown, paler towards the base ; wing-ribs ferruginous : veins black, ferruginous at the base ; stump on the submarginal areolets as long as the inner side of the angle whence it springs. Length of the body 12 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. South America. Genus ASILUS, Linn. Division I. Distance of the base of the second submarginal areolet from the tip of the wing hardly half that from the base of the first submarginal areolet Ex. — A. Tucca, Amazaenes, Isse (sp. of Lophonotus ?), brachyptcrus, inumbratus. 133 Division II. Base of the second submarginal areolet much nearer to the tip of the wing than to the base of the first submarginal areolet. Ex. — A. plicatus, Antiorus, Eanes, Malleolus, Pelago, Gorgasus, in- glorius, Araycla, Ainythaon, Maso, Sydneensis, Alatus, Barium, Baletus, lamenus, Cenlho, iopterus (n.g.), Sophus, barbarus, Crabroniformis, Api- cata, Calatinus, Chrysilis, Ponarius, Blasio, Balacrus, Antiphus, Triopas, Alastor (n.g.), Halmus, Aphellas, Noas, Abuntius, Paron, Jacksonii, Lecy- thus, Agrius, apicalis, Sadyates, Alethes, Antimachus, Coedicius, Orphne, varius, flavicornis, Antilco, Eehepolis, Margitis, Ochesius, Dasius, Mucins, Scaurus, Bulbus, fimbriatus, albiceps, foreipatus, trigonus, oestivus, cothur- natus, geniculatus, punctipennis, varipes, inconstans, cinerarius, Therima- chus, Congedus, elieitus, Hyagnis, Herdonius, Maricus, Gamaxus, Tra- chalus, Lycorias, luctifieus, obumbratus, exilis, acutangulatus, patereulus ? prsfiniens, variabilis, flavescens, annulipes ? culiciformis ? grandis, penul- timus, discutiens, ultiraus, mucidus. Division III. Base of the second submarginal areolet a little nearer to the tip of the wing than to the base of the first submarginal areolet. Ex. — A. Coryraeta, Hagno, rufinervis, Gerion, brevipennis, Coras, Paropus, Thirabro, Lascus, flavicornis, villicatus, annulatus, Eupator, Tatius, Tamphilus. Division IV. Base of the second submarginal areolet nearly equally distant from the tip of the wing and from the base of the first submarginal areolet. Ex. — A. heros, Daraps, velustus, macrotelus, Icadius, Ogulinus, Cu- riatius, Corissus, Ctesicles, Hilarii, opulentus, germanicus, pyrrhomystax, leoninus. Division V. Base of the second submarginal areolet further from the tip of the wing than from the base of the first submarginal areolet. Ex. — A. Pelicus, Corylhus, Gavius, Antidomus. T 134 INSKCTA SAUNDEUSIANA. ASILUS INUMBRATUS, MaS. Cinereo-fuscus, venire dnereo, antennis nigris, pedibus nigro-aneis, aiis fuhis. Body blade : head ihicltly clothed behind and beneath with tawny hairs, beset behind the eyes with tawny bristles ; sides of the crown beset with slender black bristles ; face most thickly clothed with long, bright, tawny bristles : eyes bronzed ; fore part nearly flat, its facets larger than those elsewhere: sucker clothed at the tip with tawny hairs ; palpi beset with long black bristles: feelers black; first and second joints beset with long black bristles : chest and breast tinged with grayish brotvn : chest thinly clothed with short black hairs, beset with some black spines and bristles, these are chiefly on each side and behind, where there arc a very few pale yellow spines : abdomen tinged with grayish brown, clothed with hoary hairs, narrower than the chest and less than twice its length, tapering from the base to the tip which is blach and shining ; under side gray : legs brassy-black, thickly clothed with hoary hairs, armed with pale yellow spines; foot-cushions ferruginous; hind-thighs and hind-shanks armed beneath with very stout and short black spines : wiitgs tawny, wing-ribs ferruginous; veins black, ferruginous towards the base; poisers tawny, with pitchy knobs. Length of the body 9i lines ; of the wings 14 lines. AslLDS PENUMIMUS, Mas. Ferrugineus, thorace vittis tribus fuhis ornato, abdominis apice fulvo segmento 7o albido, antennis nigris basi ferrugineis, pedibus ferrugi- neis, alis limpidis venarum marginibus Jlavo-fuscis. Body ferruginous : head adorned with a yellowish white covering, clothed with tawny hairs on the crown, and with whitish hairs behind and beneath, armed behind the eyes with two black spines and with numerous tawny spines ; face convex in front, very thickly clothed with bright tawny hairs and bristles : eyes bronzed; fore part nearly flat, its facets larger than those elsewhere : sucker black, clothed towards the base with long yellow hairs, and at the tip with short tawny hairs; palpi black, clothed with long pale yellow hairs : first and second joints of the feelers ferrugi- nous, beset with short, black, and tawny bristles ; second much shorter than the first ; third black, nearly spindle-shaped, as long as the first joint, DIPTEllA. 136 ferruginous at the base ; bristle black, about twice the length of the third joint: neck thickly clothed with yellow hairs: chest adorned with taimiy rejlections and with three indistinct tawny stripes, thinly clothed with short black hairs, beset on each side and behind with a few black bristles : breast clothed with yellow hairs, which are very thick about the base of the fore- legs : abdomen full twice the length of the chest, tapering from the base to the tip, where it is tatvny, clothed with tawny liairs, and towards the base with black liairs ; seventh segment whitish ; sexual parts ferraginous, shining: leys ferruginous, clothed with tawny hairs, armed with black spines : wings colourless, yellowish brown along the borders of the veins ; wing-ribs, veins and poisers ferruginous. Length of the body 18 lines; of the wings 28 lines. East India. AsiLus DiscuTiENS, Fem. Fulvus, thorace subviltato,pectore dnereo, abdomine nigra, antennis nigris, pedibus ntfis, genubus tibiis apice tarsisquc nigris, alis subcinereis apice obscurioribus venarum marginibus fulvis. Body black : head adorned with a tawny covering, thickly clothed behind and beneath with pale yellow hairs ; a few black bristles behind the eyes ; a few black hairs on the tubercle of the eyelets and on each side of the crown ; face convex in front, clothed with pale yellow bristles and black hails, the latter are chiefly towards the feelers : eyes bronzed ; fore part flat, its facets much larger than those elsewhere : sucker clothed at the tip with lawny hairs ; palpi thickly beset with black bristles : feelers black ; first and second joints beset with black bristles ; second about half the length of the first : chest clothed with black hairs, beset on each side and behind with black bristles ; its covering tawny, indistinctly striped : breast gray : abdomen tapering from the base to the tip, nearly twice the length of the chest, thickly clothed with bright tawny hairs ; tip shining, compressed : legs dark red, clothed with short black hairs and with a few yellow bristles, armed with black spines ; feet, knees, and tips of shan7cs black ; foot-cushious tawny ; thighs clothed with hoary hairs : wings slightly tinged with gray, their tips darker ; borders of the reins tatvny ; wing-ribs and veins ferruginous, poisers tawny, with ferruginous tips. Length of the body 11 lines ; of the wings 25 lines. New Holland. 136 XNSECTA SAUNDEESIANA. ASILUS ULTIMUS, Mas. Fermgineus, thorace nigra qtiadrivittato, abdomine pieeo apice femtgineo latenbus albido variis, anteimis nigris basi rufis,pedibusferrugineis, fenioribus nigris, alis mbfuscis. Head ferruginous, adorned with a pale tawny covering, thickly clothed hehind and benealh with whitish hairs, beset with black bristles behind the eyes and on each side of the crown, and on the tubercle of the eyelets ; face very convex, thickly clothed with long pale yellow hairs which also fringe the sides of the peristoma : eyes black ; fore part flat, its facets much larger than those elsewhere : sucker black, clothed with long white hairs towards the base, and with short tawny hairs at the tip ; palpi black, beset with black bristles : feelers black ; first and second joints red, beset with short black bristles ; first clothed with pale yellow hairs ; second about half the length of the first; third spindle-shaped, nearly as long as the first; bristle almost twice the length of the third joint : vhei^t and breast ferruginous: chest adorned with four black stripes, of which the side pair are indistinct, clothed with very short black hairs, beset on each side and behind with black bristles ; breast tinged with gray, partly clothed with hoary hairs; a tuft of black bristles on each side of the hind chest: abdo- men pitchi/, nearly twice the length of the chest, clothed with short black and white hairs ; hind borders of the segments paler, whitish on each side ; sixth and seventh segments ferruginous with whitish sides; fifth and follow- ing segments of the underside ferruginous, adorned with a white covering ; sexual parts ferruginous, shining, clothed with tawny hairs : legs ferrugi- nous, clothed with short black hairs, armed with black spines ; thighs clothed with white hairs ; claws black ; foot-eushions tawny ; four front thighs black, wilh ferruginotis tips : wings pale clear brown ; wing-ribs fer- ruginous ; veins pitchy, ferruginous at the base and along the fore border ; poisers ferruginous. Length of the body 13 lines; of the wings 22 lines. North America. 137 AsiLus TiiEHiMaCHus, Mas et Fem. Niger, thoracis vittis tribus peelore ventreque citiereis abdominis segmen- torum marijinibus poslicis cards, antennis pedibusque nitjris, alts sub- limpidis, apicibus maryinibusque poslicis cinereis. Male. Body black, wilh a very slight bluish tint, which appears most on the sides of the breast: head adorned in front with a tawny covering, whitish and clothed with white hairs behind and beneath, beset behind the eyes with a row of black bristles ; crown clothed with a few black hairs ; face very convex towards the epistoina, thickly clothed with long, shining, white hairs ; a few black liairs towards the feelers and along the sides of the face and of the peristoma ; eyes bronzed ; fore part flat, its facets much larger than those elsewhere : sucker dark tawny and clothed with pale tawny hairs at the lip ; palpi beset with long black hairs : feelers black ; first and second joints beset with long black bristles ; second not more than half the length of the first ; third long spindle-shaped, much longer than the first joint ; bristle nearly as long as the third : chesl adorned with three gray stripes, clothed with black hairs and bristles, the latter mostly on the hind part ; sides, hind-chest and breast tinged with gray : abdomen pitchy black, clothed with hoary hairs, very slightly tapering from the base to near the tip, a little narrower than the chest and less than twice its length ; hind borders of ihe segments beset with black bristles and adorned with hoary bands ; sides gray tvilh a tawny tinge ; underside gray ; sexual parts large, black, shining, beset with black bristles, which form a tuft on each side above, the part between adorned with silky white and pale yellow hairs: legs black, clothed with short black hairs, armed with black bristles and spines; thighs thinly clothed with white hairs; hind-shanks very slightly curved ; feet and tips of hind-shanks partly adorned with a tawny tinge beneath ; claws at the base and foot-cushions tawny : wings nearly colourless, gray along the fore border towards the tips, and along the hind border except at the base ; wing-ribs dark ferruginous ; veins black, feii'uginous at the base ; poisers pale yellow, tawny at the base. Fem. White hairs on the face much less numerous than those of the male ; black hairs more numerous : abdomen black, about twice the length of the chest, slightly tapering from the base to the tip, towards which it is shining ; hind borders of the segments hoary ; a hoary tinge on each side and beneath. Length of the body 6 — 6^ lines ; of the wings 12 lines. Brazil. 138 INSECTA SAUNDEBSLiNA. AsiLus CoNOEDus, Mas et Fem. Niger, thorace vittis quatw)rfulvisomato,pectore cinereo, abdomine fasciis cinereo-fuivis ornato, antennis ferrugincis basi nigris, pedibvs nigris fulvo elferrugineo variis,alis limpidis. Male. Body black : head broader than the chest, brown above, pale yellow with a silky lustre in front, hoary and clothed with white hairs be- hind and beneath ; face slightly prominent, armed with numerous pale yel- low spines : eyes large, adorned with iridescent colours ; fore part nearly flat, its facets larger than those elsewhere : sucker clothed at the tip with pale tawny hairs ; palpi small : feelers pale ferruginous ; first and second joints black, adorned with a tawny covering, beset with short black bristles ; second pale ferruginous at the tip, as long as the first ; third slightly ta- pering from the base to the tip, much longer than the first ; bristle black, much longer than the third joint, very slightly widened near the tip : chest beset on each side and behind with a few black bristles, adorned with four tawny stripes which are united on each side in front : breast tinged with gray: abdomen narrower than the chest and more than twice its length, thinly clothed with short hoary hairs, slightly tapering from the base to the tip, which with its appendages is shining and clothed with short black hairs ; four white spines on each side of the fifth segment ; a broad grayish tawny band on each segment ; hind pari of breast, and hind borders of the first, second and third abdominal segments on the under side ferruginous : legs black, clothed with short black hairs, aimed with black spines ; thighs ferruginous at the base beneath; four anterior thighs ferruginous at the tips beneath ; shanks tawny, with black tips ; hind-shanks striped beneath with black; foot-cushions pale tawny: itnngs quite colourless; wing-ribs and veins pale tawny ; poisers pale ferruginous. Fem. Eyes convex in front ; facets larger than those elsewhere : ab- domen much more than twice the length of the chest, compressed and shining for one-third of the length from the tip : thighs tawny with black tips, darker than the shanks ; feet dark ferruginous at the base, clothed beneath with tawny down. Length of the body 7 — 8 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. East India. 139 AsiLus EL1CITU8, Fem. Fiiscus, capite albido, thorace vittis quatuor nigrU omato, pectore cano, abdomine nigra segmcnlorum marginibus posticis vcnlrequc cinereis, antennis pedihusque nigris, tibiisfulvis apice nigris, tarsis basi rufis, alts cinereis. Head adorned with a whitish covering, thickly clothed beneath with whitish hairs, beset behind the eyes with black bristles ; crown black, shining, clothed with black hairs ; epistoma and adjoining part of the face thickly beset with black and whitish bristles : eyes bronzed ; fore part nearly flat, its facets a little larger than those elsewhere : sucker and palpi black; tip of the sucker clothed with very short white hairs ; palpi clothed with long hoary hairs : feelers black ; first and second joints beset with short black bristles ; third joint tiipering from near the base to the tip, about twice the length of the second ; bristle slightly tapering, longer than the third joint : chest brown, clothed with black hairs and bristles, adorned with four black stripes, of which the middle pair are linear and slender, the outer pair are short and broad ; sides paler, armed with a few black spines : breast hoary, partly clothed with whitish hairs ; abdomen black, much more than twice the length of the chest, clothed at the base and beneath with hoary hairs, tapering from the base along two-thirds of the length, shining and much compressed from thence to the tip ; under side and hind borders of the segments gray : legs black, clothed with short black hairs, armed with black spines ; hips and thighs clothed with hoary haire ; shanks tawny with black tips ; feet red at the base ; foot-eushions tawny : wings gray ; wing- ribs pitchy ; veins black. Length of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. New South Wales. AsiLus Hyaonis, Mas. Cervinus, capite fulvo subttis flavo, thorace vittis quatuor fuscis omato, pectore cano, abdotninis segmentorum marginibus posticis fuhis, an- tennis pcdibusque ferrugineis, tarsis posticis nigris, alis subfulpis apice cinereis. Head pale tawny, with a few pale yellow hairs on each side of the crown, pale yellow and thickly clothed with hoary haire behind and be- neath, beset behind the eyes with a few pale yellow spines ; face very 140 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. prominent towards the epistoma and beset with numerous pale yellow bristles : eyes black ; fore part flat, composed of large facets : sucker black, tawny and clothed with pale yellow hairs at the tip ; palpi black, clothed with long pale yellow hairs : feelers pale ferruginous ; first and second joints beset with black bristles ; second much shorter than the first; third dark ferruginous, pale ferruginous at the base whence it tapers to the tip, much longer than the first joint; bristle black, much longer than the third joint : chest fawn colour, clothed with short l)lack hail's, beset on each side and behind with a few black bristles and pale yellow hairs, adorned tvithfour brown stripes, of which the middle pair are long, slender and straight, the side pair shorter, broader and spindle- shaped : breast hoary ; abdomen tinged with a slight fawn colour, darker above than the chest and more than twice its length, clothed with short pale yellow hairs, very slightly tapering from the l)ase to the tip which is black, shining, and thickly clothed with black haiis ; tides and hind borders of the segments tawny : legs pale ferruginous, clothed with short black hairs, armed with pale yellow spines ; fotir hinder Itnees black ; hind-feet black, armed with black spines, ferruginous and covered with tawny down be- neath ; tips of four front feet black ; spines of the four front feel mostly yellow, those of the hind feet mostly black ; claws black, ferruginous at the base; foot-cushions pale tawny: wings slightly tinged with lawny, gray, with the exception of a space, in the disk for more than half the length from the tips ; wing-ribs and veins tawny, the latter darker towards the tips ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 10 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. New South Wales. AsiLus HERDONins, Fern. Cyaneo-^iger, thoracis vittis tribus peetore abdominis segmentorum margi- nibus posticis ventreque canis, antennis pedibusque nigris, alis sub- cinereis apice obscurioribus. Body blueish black : head beset behind the eyes with a row of black bristles, adorned in front with a tawny covering, whitish and clothed with white hairs behind and beneath ; crown brown, clothed with a few long black hairs; face very prominent towards the epistoma, beset with many black and white bristles, the latter on the epistoma ; sides of the peristoma beset with black bristles : eyes bronzed ; fore part nearly flat, its facets larger than those elsewhere : sucker black, clothed at the tip with short tawny hairs ; palpi tawny, beset with black bristles ; feelers black ; first DIPTEEA. 141 and second joints licsct with long Mack bristles ; second a little shorter than the first; third long, spindle-shaped, rather slender, much longer than the second ; bristle rather stout, nearly as long as the third joint: chest and breast hoary ; chest beset with a few black hairs and bristles, its disk black, adorned with three hoary stripes : abdomen very slightly tiipering from the base to the tip, nearly twice the length of the chest, clothed with black and white bristles and hairs, the latter most frequent on the under side, which is hoary, as are also the hind borders of the seipnents above ; tip shining, beset beneath with black bristles : legs black, thinly clothed with hoary liairs, armed with black spines ; hind-shanks and feet adorned be- neath with tawny down ; foot-cushions tawny : wings pale gray, dark gray towards the tips and thence along the greater pari of the hind border ; wing- ribs and veins black ; poisers yellow. Length of the body 6i lines ; of the wings 13 lines. A. Gamaxus, Fem. ? South America. Asii.ua Maricus, Fem. Niger, antennis pedibusque nigris, tibiis fulms apicenigris, alis cincreis. Body black : head mostly adorned witli a dark tawny covering, clothed behind and beneath with tawny hairs ; a few black hairs on the crown ; face very convex towards the epistoma, beset with pale yellow bristles and nearer the feelers with black bristles j sides of the peristoma also beset with black bristles ; eyes black ; fore part nearly flat, its facets larger than those elsewheie : sucker clothed at the tip with short pale hairs: palpi clothed with pale yellow hairs: feelers black ; fust and se- cond joints of nearly equal length, beset with black bristles ; third as long as the first and the second, very slightly tapering from the base to the tip ; bristle much stouter than usual, tapering from the base to the tip, more than half the length of the third joint: chest thinly clothed with tawny hairs : abdomen slightly compressed, clothed with a few hoary hairs, nar- rower than the chest and much more than twice its length, very slightly tapering from the base to the tip which is shining and much compressed : legs black, clothed with short black hairs, beset with black bristles ; thighs with a tawny litige; shanks tawny, black for one-third of the length from the lips ; claws at the base and foot-cushions tawny : wings gray ; wing- ribs and veins black ; foot-cushions tawny. Length of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. Port Philip. U INSECTA 8AUNUEHSIANA. AsiLUs Gamaxus, Mas. Nigro-fuscus, thoracis viltis tribus lateralibus pecloreque cinereis, abdo- minis segmentonim marginibusposlicisfulvo-canis, antetmis jicdibus- que nigris, alis sublimpidis costa apive venarumque marginibus fuscis. Body black : bead adorned in front with a tawny covering:, whitish and clothed with white hairs behind and beneatli, thickly heset behind the eyes with black bristles ; crown brown, clothed with a few black hairs ; face very convex, thickly beset with pale yellow bristles ; a very few black bristles towards the feelers and on each side of the face and on the sides of the peristoma : eyes bronzed ; fore part flat, composed of large facets : sucker clothed at the tip with short tawny hairs ; palpi beset with long black hairs : feelers black ; first and second joints beset with black bristles ; second hardly more than half the length of the first ; third spindle-shajied, longer than the first ; bristle as long as the third : chest dark brown, clothed with a few black hairs and bristles, adorned with three gray stripes, the middle one triple; sides, hind part and breast gray, on a dark brown groxmd : abdomen dark brown with a tawny tinge, linear, narrower than the chest and much less than twice its length, clothed with black and pale yellow hairs and bristles ; hind borders of the segments hoary, with a tawny tinge ; sexual parts large, black, shining, clothed above with pale yellow silky hairs, and on each side with a tuft of black bristles, beset be- neath with black bristles : legs black, clothed with short black hairs, ai-med with black spines ; thighs thinly clothed with hoary hairs, armed with two or three white spines ; hind-shanks and feet adorned with tawny down ; fore-shanks and base of fore-feet fringed with long, pale yellow hairs ; foot- cushions tawny : wings nearly colourless, brown along the fore border, towards the tips, and along the greater part of the hind border ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, ferruginous at the base ; poisers yellow. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 1 1 lines. South America. — Columbia. U:i Asir.us Trachalus, Mas. Niger, capite Ihoracisque villis Iribm fidvis, peciore einereo, abdomine c'lnereo-fulva, antennis nigris basi ferrugineis, pedibus ferrugineix, tarsis nigris, alts subfulvh. Body blings colourless, broum at the base ; fore border adorned with a broad broum stripe which diminishes in breadth till a little beyond three-fourths of the length, where it ceases; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black, pitchy at the base ; scales tawny with darker borders ; poisers yel- low. In one wing of a specimen described there is an additional areolet formed by a supernumerary little cross-vein in the disk of the wing. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. Van Diemen's Land. Anthrax manifesta, Fem. Nigra, fulvo-hirta, abdominis apice nigro-piloso, palpis nigris apice fulvis, antennis pedibtisquc nigris, alis limpidis basi et ad costam fwicis. Black, thickly clothed with tewny hairs which are paler on each side towards the tip of the abdomen and beneath : peristoma tawny : palpi with tawny tips: abdomen linear, truncated at the tip, a little longer than the chest, adorned on each side of the tip with a tuft of black hairs : legs clothed with short black hairs : wings colourless, dark brown at the base and along the fore border till near the tip ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black, pitchy at the base and along the fore border ; scales tawny with darker borders ; poisers yellow. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. East India. 179 Antiiuax CI.AI1A, Fem. Nigra, fuho-hirta, antennis pedibusqve nigris, alis limpidis basi el ad costam fuscis. Black, thickly clothed with bright tawny hairs : head clothed above with black hairs : abdomen obconical, a little shorter and broader than the chest : legs clothed with short black hairs : wini/ii colourless, dark brown along the fore border till near the tip ; wing-ribs and veins black ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. East India. Anthrax loci da, Fem. Nigra, fuho-hirta, abdominis apice nigro-pitoso fasciculisque flavo-albis omato, antennis pedibusqve nigris, alis limpidis ad costam fuscis. Black, thickly clothed with bri|,'ht tawny hairs ; head clothed above with black hairs: abdomen nearly linear, truncated at the tip, hardly shorter than the chest ; tip clothed with black hairs and adorned on each side with a tuft of yellowish-white hairs : wings colourless, brown along the fore border for two-thirds of the length ; wing-ribs and veins black, the latter pitchy beneath the fore border ; poisers yellow. The brown on the wing of this species is much narrower than that of A. manifesta. Length of the body (> lines ; of the wings 14 lines. Ea.st India. Anthrax limiuda, Fem. Nigra, fuho-hirta, antennis pedibusque nigris, alis limpidis costu fuscis. Black : head clothed above with short tawny and longer black hairs, beneath with longer tawny hairs : chest clothed with bright tawny hairs: abdomen slightly obconical, somewhat truncated at the tip, shorter than the chest, clothed with pale tawny hairs: legs clothed with short black hairs : wings colourless, with a very narrow brown stripe along the fore border for more than two-thirds of the length ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black, pitchy at the base and along the fore border ; poisers pale yellow. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. Ea.st India. 180 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. Anthkax apeuta, Fem. Nigra, fulvo-hirta, pcctorc albo-piloso, abdomine maculis qualnnr fasciis- gue duabus albo-pilosis oiinalo lateribtis nigro-pilosis , alis limpidis basi costaque fuscis. Black : head wanting : cliest clothed with tawny hairs which are l)righcst in front : breast clothed with white hairs : abdomen slightly ob- conical, somewhat truncated, a little longer than the chest, clothed with black hairs along each side, adorned with four spots and two bands of white hairs ; a large spot on each side of the base and a little one on each side of the tip, one band near the base, the other beyond the middle : legs clothed with short black hairs : ivings colourless, dark brown at the base, whence a very narrow brown stripe proceeds near the fore border for three- fourths of the length ; a patch of while hairs on each shoulder ; wing-ribs and veins black. Length of the body 5 lines; of the wiugs 12 lines. East India. Anthkax lucens, Fem. Nigra, fulvo-pilosa, abdominis laterihus albo nigroque fasciculatis, alis limpidis basi fuscis. Black : head tawny beneath : chest and breast clothed with tawny hairs ; a tuft of white hairs on each side above the base of the wing : ab- domen obconical, a little shorter than the chest, clothed on each side with alternate patches of black and white hairs: legs clothed with very short black hairs : wings colourless, dark brown at the base, adorned on each shoul- der with a patch of silvery white hairs ; wing-ribs and veins black. Length of the body 4 J lines; of the wings 12 lines. East India. Anthbax apparkns, Fem. Nigra, fulvo-hirta, abdominis lateribus basi ferrugineis albo fasciculatis, ventre ferruginea disco piceo albo-hirto, antennis nigris, pedibus fulvis, tarsis piceis, alis limpidis basi et ad costamfulvis. Black: head clothed in front and beneath with tawny hairs: chest and abdomen clothed with tawny hairs : abdomen obconical, a little shorter niPTEHA. 181 than the chest, ferruginous and adorned with a patch of white hairs on each side of tlie base ; underside ferruginous except the middle part which is pitchy and adorned with wliite hairs : legs tawny, clothed with very short black bristles ; feet pitchy ; claws black, tawny at the base : wings colour- less, tawny at the base and along half the length of the fore border ; shoulders beset with black bristles ; wing, ribs tawny ; veins pitchy, tawny at the base and along the fore border ; scales tawny ; poisers yellow. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 1 1 lines. Cape. Anthrax detecta, Fem. Nigra, angusta, jlam-hirta, thoracis lateribus albo nigroque faseiculatis, antennis pedibusque nigris, femoribus posterioribus basi ftilvis, alis limpidis basi et costce triente fulvis. Black, narrow : head clothed with silvery white hairs : chest and breast clothed with yellow hairs : abdomen linear, conical at the tip, a little longer than the chest, clothed with yellow hairs, adorned on each side with alternate tufts of black and white hairs: legs clothed with short black hairs and bristles ; four hinder thighs tawny towards the base : wings colourless, tawny at the base and along one-third of t/iefore border ; shoulders adorned with pale yellow hairs; wing-ribs pitchy; veins black, pitchy at the base and along the fore border ; scales tawny ; poisers yellow. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 9 lines. South America. Anthbax vitrea, Fem. Nigra, angusta, fulvo-hirta, antennis pedibusque nigris, tibiis piceis, alis limpidis basi fulvis. Black, narrow, clothed with tawny hairs : sucker pitchy : abdomen ob- conical, a little shorter than the chest: shanks pitchy: wings colourless with a slight tawny tinge at Ike base ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black, pitchy at the base and along the fore border ; poisers pitchy with yellow knobs. Length of the body 2} lines; of the wings 6 lines. West Australia. 2b 183 INSECTA SAHNDERSTANA. Anthrax pelluoida, Fem. Nigra, angusta,Jlavo-hirta, abdominu laterihus albo nigroque fasciculalU, antennis pedihusqxie nigris, alls limpidis lotigis angustis basi el ad eostam fuscu. Black, narrow, linear : head clothed with black or pale yellow hairs, the former chiefly above, the latter in front: chest, breast and abdomen clothed with pale yellow hairs : abdomen hardly longer than the chest, very slightly decreasing in breadth from the base to the tip which is trun- cated ; side adorned with alternate tufts of black and while hairs : legs clothed with very short black hairs ; claws ferruginous with black tips : wings colourless, long and narrow, dark brown at the base and along three- fourths of the length of the fore border; wing-ribs and veins black ; scales pale tawny ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 3^—4 lines ; of the wings 10—11 lines. Van Diemen's Land. Anthrax tkanslata, Fem. Nigra, fulw-hirta, pedibus nigris, alls subcinereis basi et ad eostam fuscis. Head wanting. Black, rather broad, thickly clothed with tawny hairs: abdomen obconical, rather longer and broader than the chest : legs clothed with short black hairs : wings slightly tinged with gray, dark broum at the base and along three-fourths of the fore border ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black, partly pitchy, clouded with pale brown. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. West Indies. Anthrax ai.bo-folva, Mas. Nigro-cinerea, pectore ventreque cants, abdominis segmentorum marginibus posticis fulvis, antennis basi pedibusque fulvis, alls limpidis. Black, tinged with gray, clothed with short tawny hairs : head covered with a tawny hue, clothed with short whitish hairs : first and second joints of the feelers tawny : breast and underside of the abdomen hoary, clothed I)Il>TEltA. 183 with white hairs ; hind borders of the abdominal segments tawny : legs pale tawny : tvings colourless ; wing-ribs pale tawny ; veins pitchy, tawny at the base and along the fore border ; poisers yellow with white kuobs. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 6^ lines. , East India. Anthbax antica, Fem. Nigra, faho-hirta, capile fulvo, scutello thoracis abdominisque lateribus ventreque ferruyineis, anlennis piceis basiftdvis, pedibus nigris, alls limpidis basi el ad costatn oblique et angulatim fuscis. Black : head mostly tawny, beset with short black bristles : epistoma prominent : feelers pitchy, dark tawny at the base : sucker pitchy : chest and breast clothed with tawny hairs : scutcheon and sides of the chest fer- ruginous : abdomen slightly obeonical, a little broader but not longer than the chest; a large ferruginous spot ou each side of the second, third and fourth segments ; underside dark ferruginous : legs clothed with short black hairs and bristles ; thighs and shanks adorned with a dark tawny tinge : wings colourless, dark brown at the base and along the fore border for more than three.fourths of the length ; this brown part contains two latmiy dots and has a slight ferruginous tinge, it is darkest along the outline which has three inward and as many outward irregular curves, is very oblique, and ter- minates on the hind border near the end of the inferior part ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black, pitchy at the base and along the fore border; poisers tawny. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. Columbia. Anthkax instituta, Fem. Nigra, angusta, flavo-pilosa, pectore cano, abdomine cinereo, anlennis pe- dibusque nigris, alis cinereis fiisco quadrimaculatis. Black, narrow : head clothed above with brown hairs, in front with lawny hairs: chest beset with black bristles: breast hoary, clothed with whitish hairs : abdomen gray, obeonical, a little shorter than the chest, beset with a few black bristles, clothed on each side and at the base with dull pale yellow hairs : legs black, clothed with short black hairs and bris- tles ; shanks pitchy ; thighs tinged with gray: wings gray, rather long and 184 INSECTA SAUNUEBSIANA. narrow, adnrned with four broum spots which cloud the cross-veins ; wing- ribs pitchy ; veins black, pitchy at the base and along the fore border ; poisei-s pitchy with tawny knobs. Length of the body 3i— 4i lines ; of the wings 10— 12 lines. East India. . Antheax beducta, Mas. Atra, capite antiee abdominisqne apice pilis omateis argentis, thorace pilis fuscis hirto, antennis nigris, pedibus piceis, tibiis fulvis, alls limpidis basi fuscis bimaculatis. Deep velvet-like black: front of the head thickly clothed with silvery white hairs ; a few black bristles on the region of the eyelets : chest thickly clothed with brown hairs : abdomen nearly elliptical, a little longer than the chest, adorned at the tip with a tuft of silvery white hairs : legs pitchy, beset with short black bristles ; shanks dark tawny : wings colourless, broum from near three-fifths of the fore border to near two-fifths of the hind border ; the outline of the brown is irregularly concave, and it includes two small colourless spots ; wing-ribs and veins black ; poisers pitchy. Length of the body 2i lines ; of the wings 7 lines. Anthbax fumivlamma, Fem. Nigra, fulvo-hirta, abdomine fasciis fulvo-pilosis ornato, antennis pedibus- que nigris, alis nigro-cinereis basi costa nervorumque marginibus fulvis. Black, clothed with tawny hairs which are disposed in broad bands on the fore borders of the abdominal segments : head bright tawny, thickly clothed with bright tawny hairs, among which a few black bristles are min- gled ; underside and hind part yellowish, clothed with pale tawny hairs : epistoma prominent : breast clothed with pale yellow hairs : abdomen slightly obconical, a litlle longer than the chest : legs covered with yellow down, armed with black spines; feet clothed with short black hairs: wings very dark gray, slightly tawny at the base and beneath the fore border and along some of the veins in the disk; wing-ribs and veins black, some of the latter ferruginous ; poisers tawny with whitish knobs. Length of the body 4^ — 5 lines; of the wings 13 — 14 lines. Jamaica. 185 Anthrax ampla, Fem. Cinerea, capite scutcUoque futvis, pectorc cano, abdominc fusco basiferru- gineo Jlaio-hirlo, segmentorwn marginibus posticis albo-hirlis, ventre ferruginco, antennis nigris basi futvis, pedibus fulvis, tibiis posticis larsisque piceis, tarsis posticis nigris, alls subcinereis basi et ad costatn fulms. Head dark lawmj, thickly clothed with white hairs, thinly clothed with black hairs about the eyelets and behind where it is gray ; sucker and lancets black, the former much longer than the head, tlie latter long and slender with lawny tips : feelers black ; first and second joints tawuy adorned wiih a whitish covering, beset with black brislles ; third conical, terminated by a bristle which is near twice the length of all the preceding part, it tapers in the early part of its course, is thence linear, and widens towards the tip where it leiininates in a little spine : chest gray, clothed with hoary hairs, adorned on each side and in front with ferruginous hairs ; scutcheon tawny ; a few red bristles on each side of the scutcheon : breast hoary, clothed with whitish hairs ; abdo- men brotim, shorter than the chest, not longer than broad, thinly clothed with black hairs ; hind borders of the segments adorned with bands of whitish hairs ; base ferruginous, covered with a thick band of pale yellow /lairs which form a tuft 07i each side ; underside ferruginous, clothed with pale down : legs dark tawny, adorned with a hoary tinge, beset with black bristles ; feet and hind shanks pitchy ; hind feet black : wittgs pale gray, tawny at the base and along the fore border ; cross-veins clouded with dark gray ; wing- ribs and veins tawny ; poisers pitchy with tawny knobs. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 22 lines. West Anstralia. Anthrax pkocedens, Fem. Nigra, angusta, fulvo-hirta, thoracis lateribus posticis fcrrtigineis, pectore cano, abdominis lateribus albo nigroque fasciculalis, aniennis nigris, pedibus fulvis, tarsis piceis, alis limpidis longis anyustis basi et ad costam sitmato-fuscis. The stump on the hinder vein of the second marginal areolet is more than twice the length of the inner side of that angle ; stump on the angle of the tip trosb-vein rudimentary or none. Black, rather narrow: head 180 INSECTA SAUNDEUSIANA. clothed in front with whitish hairs : peristoma tawny : thest clothed with pale tawny hairs, slightly ferruginous on each side behind the wings : breast hoary : abdomen clothed with pale tawny hairs, increasing in breadth from the base to the tip which is truncated, a little shorter and broader than the chest, adorned on each side with alternate patches of black and white hairs : legs tawny, rather long and slender, beset with short black bristles which are mostly on the shanks ; feet pitchy with black tips : wings colour- less, long and narrow, dark brown mingled with dark tawny at the base and along four-fifths of the length of the fore border; this dark part is less than half the breadth of the wing, and grows narrower from the base to the tip by means of three successive large angles ; wing-ribs and veins black ; scales pale tawny ; poisers pitchy, tawny towards the base. Length of the body 4i lines; of the wings 13 lines. Columbia. Anthrax onata, Fein. Nigra, fulm-hirta, thorace nigro-fusco lateribus argenteis, anlennis nigris, pedibus fulvo-piceis, alis fuscis fulvo guttatis ad apices oblique lim- pidis. Black, clothed with pale tawny hairs: chest dark brown, silvery white along each side : abdomen slightly obconical, a little broader but not longer than the chest: legs pitchy, tliinly clothed with black hairs and bristles; thighs and shanks adorned with a tawny tinge: wings colourless, dark brown on more than half the surface from the base with the exception of a few small dulltawny spots ; the outline of the brown part extends from four- fifths of the fore border to one-third of the hind border, and is nearly straight along most of its course, but angular towards the fore border ; wing-ribs and veins pitchy ; poisers pale yellow. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wiugs 10 lines. Anthrax conghua, Mas. Nigra, capite argenteo-hirto, thoracis lateribus ferrugineo-hirtis, pectore cinereo, abdomine pilis ferrugineis basi nigris media argenteis fulvis- que apice ornato, ventre albo-piloso, antennis nigris, pedibus piceis, alis fuscis ad apices oblique limpidis. Black : head adorned with short silvery hairs : mouth pitchy : chest deep velvet-like black, adorned on each side with bright ferruginous DIPTEnA. 187 hairs : breast gray : abdomen obconical, much shorter than the chest, clothed on each side witli black hairs, which are replaced by ferrugi- nous hairs at the base and by silvery and pale tawny hairs near the tip ; underside clothed witli white hairs : legs pitchy, clotlied with short black hairs and bristles : thighs tinged with gray : winys very dark rich brmvn for near two-thirds of the length from the base, colourless thence to the tips ; the outline of the hrown is oblique, nearhj straight, and extends from near three-fourths of the fore border to near one-half of the hind border ; wing- ribs and veins pitchy ; poisers tawny with yellow knobs. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. Anthrax incisa, Fem. Nigra, nigro-hirta, thorace viridi micante, capite thoracisque laleribus ferrugiruo alboque pilosis, abdominis apice fasciculis duabus fulvis omato, anlennis nigris, pedibus piceis, femoribus anterioribus fulvis, alis nigro-fuscis apice oblique limpidis. Black : head clothed above with black hairs, in front with ferruginous tawny and white hairs, hoary and clothed with white hairs behind : sides of the peristoma tawny : mouth pitchy : chest adorned with black and bright green hairs, and on each side with bright ferruginous hairs, excepting the fore part where the hairs are white : breast gray, thickly clothed with white hail's : scutcheon and adjoining sides of the chest dark ferruginous : ab- domen obconical, shorter than the chest, clothed with short black hairs, adorned with a tuft of pale tawny hairs on each side near the tip ; under- side clothed with white hairs towards the base with tawny hairs towards the tip : legs pitchy, clothed with short black hairs and bristles ; thighs adorned with a tawny covering; four anterior thighs tawny; wings very dark brouni with some slight ferruginous streaks for much more than half the surface from the base ; the outline of this browti is very oblique, has two curves and two distinct angles, and extends from three-fourths of the fore border to beyond half of the hind border; wing- ribs and veins pitchy; scales very dark brown, deeply fringed; poisers tawny with yellow knobs. Length of the body 6 — 7 lines ; of the wings 15 — 17 lines. North America. 188 INSRCTA SAUNDERSTANA. Anthrax reperta, Fein. Nigro-fusca, nigro-pUosn, pectore cinereo, abdominis apice albo faacicu- lato, anlennis niyris, pedibus piceis, alisfuscis apicem vwsus oblique limpidis. Slender, tinged with dark brown, clothed with short black hairs : head clothed behind with dark tawny hairs : feelers black : breast gray : abdo- men nearly elliptical, a little broader and longer than the chest; sides adorned with a tiift of white hairs at the base and with white hairs towards the tip : legs pitchy, clothed with very short black hairs and bristles : wings rather long and narrow, dark brown on much more than half the surface from the base, colourless thence to the tips, the outline of this brotvn is nearly straight along the hinder half, and irregular with three angles along the fore half; it extends from five-sixths of the fore border to one-third of the hind border and is thus very oblique; wing-ribs and veins pitchy, poisers pitchy with pale tawny tips. Length of the body 3i lines ; of the wings 10 lines. South America. Anthrax excisa, Mas. Nigra, nigro-hirta, antennis nigris, pedibus piceis tarsis nigris, alis apicem versus oblique et undatim limpidis. Black, thickly clothed with rather long black hairs : mouth pitchy : abdomen nearly elliptical, hardly longer than the chest : legs pitchy, clothed with short black hairs and bristles ; feet black : wings very dark rich broum on more than half the surface from the base, the outline of this brown is slightly irregular for one-third of the length from the fore border and has a deep inward curve fro^n thence to the hind border, it extends from four-fifths of the fore border to beyond one-third of the hind border ; tips bright white ; wing-ribs, veins and poisers black. Length of the body 4i lines ; of the wings 12 lines. South America. 189 Anthrax referens, Fem. Nigra, capile peclore abdominisque segmentorum marginibus poslich fer- riiginco-ldrtis, thoracis lateribm albo-hirtis, abdominis basi fulvo- hirto lateribvs alba nigroque fasciculalis, apice pilis albis interrupie bifasciato, ventre ferrugineo, antennis niyris, pedibiui piceis, alis fuscis margine postico anguluque duabus limpidis. Black: head clothed with short ferruginous hairs ami on the crown with some black hairs : mouth pitchy : each side of the chest adorned with a stripe of white hairs: breast gray, clothed with ferruginous hairs : abdo- men obconioal, much shorter than the chest, adorned towards the tip with two interrupted bands of while hairs ; base clothed with pale tawny hairs ; hind borders of the segments clothed with short ferruginous hairs ; sides adorned with alternate tufis of black and white hairs ; underside ferrugi- nous : legs pitchy, clothed with very short black hairs and bristles ; thighs and shanks adorned with a tawny tinge : wings dark brown from the base along the fore border to the tip and along the hind border to the end of the inferior part ; this broxim part includes a nearly colourless dot, and its out- line has two deep and irregular inward curves ; wing-ribs and veins black ; poisei-s pitchy with pale yellow tips. Length of the body 4 — 4^ lines ; of the wings 11 — 12 lines. East India. Anthrax constituta, Fern. Nigra, flavo-hirta, peclore cinereo, abdominis latcribus nigro fasciculatis, pcdibus nigris, alii nigris apice margineque postico limpidis. Head wanting. Black : chest clothed in front and on each side with yellow hairs: breast gray, clothed with whitish hairs: abdomen nearly linear, clothed with yellow hairs, somewhat truncated at the tip ; sides clothed with tufts of alternate black and yellow hairs : legs clothed with short black hairs and bristles : wings very dark brown, colourless at the tips and along most part of the hind borders ; the outline of the brown is nearly straight with the exception of a short space near the lip, where it projects into the colourless part ; it extends from Jive-sixths of the fore border to one- fourth of the hind border ; wing-ribs and veins black ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 15 lines. South America. 2c 190 INSECTA 8AUNDEKSIANA. Anthrax cedens, Fein. Nigra, nigro-hirta, alis nigro-fuscis apice limpidis. Deep black, clothed with black hairs : abdomen obconical, not longer than the chest : legs clothed with short black hairs and bristles : wings very dark hrown with the exception of a narrow stripe extending from the tip along the hind border ; the outline of the hrown is rather jagged and its limits are from nine-tenths of the fore harder to rather beyond half the length of the hind border, it hardly includes a colourless streak which borders the cross- vein of the first posterior areolct ; wing-ribs and veins black ; poisers black with tawny tips. Lengih of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 1 1 lines. United States. Anthbax divisa, Mas. Nigra, fulvo-hirta, pectore einereo, abdominis lateribus basi fcrrugineo- pilosis apice argenteo-pilosis, pedibus piceis, femoribus ferrugineo tcclis, alisfuscis ad apices oblique sinuato-limpidis. Deep black, thickly clothed with short black hairs : head clothed with short black hairs, in front with light tawny hairs, and behind with silvery hairs : mouth pitchy: sides of the chest and of the breast thickly clothed with bright lawny hairs : breast gray : abdomen slightly obconical, shorter than the chest, adorned on each side of the base with bright ferruginous hairs, and at the tip with silvery white hairs : legs pitchy, clothed with very short black hairs and bristles ; thighs adorned with a ferruginous co- vering : xvings very dark rich brown on much more than half the surface from the base ; the outline of this hrown is oblique and extends from four- fifths nf the fore border to much beyoiul one- third of the hind border ; it has two concave curves, the hind one extremely slight, the fore one deeper; wing- ribs and veins black ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 5J lines ; of the wings 12 lines. South America. 191 Anthrax ili.ata, Fem. Nigra, nigro-hirta, thoracis latcribus pilis Jlavis vittatis, abdominis fasci- culis bast fasciis dtiabm apiceque albo-hirtis, pedibm nigris, tibiis fulvis, alts fuscis fulvo et cinereo guttatis, angidis duabus posticis incisis. Black, clothed with deep black hairs : head wanting : each side of the chest adorned with a stripe of pale yellow hairs ; breast tinged with brown : abdomen slightly obconical, a little broader but not longer than the cbest, adorned with white hairs which form a tuft on each side of the base, two bands on the back and one at the tip : legs armed with black spines ; shanks dark tawny ; feet clothed with short black hairs : wings very dark brown, adorned with some pale tawny and gray dots which are chiefly on the cross-veins; a colourless dot on the fore border near the tip, and two large ir- regularly-angular colourless intervals on the hind border, one a little bei/ond the middle, the other extending to the tip ; wing-ribs and veins black ; pois- ers pitchy with pale yellow tips. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. Anthrax helata, Mas. Nigro-ficsca, thoracis lateribus albo vittatis, abdomine albo bifasciato, an- tcnnis nigris, pedibus piceis, tibiis fulvis, alis nigro-fuscis fulvo gut- tatis apice margineque postice sinuato-limpidis. Black : head gray behind, clothed with tawny hairs ; crown clothed with black hairs : chest clothed with black hairs, adorned on each side with a stripe of white hairs ; scutcheon pitchy ; breast brown, clothed with tawny hairs : abdomen very deep brown, obconical, a little longer than the chest, clothed with black hairs which form a fringe on each side, adorned with two bands of white hairs, one on the first, the other on the fourth segment ; there are also some white hairs near the tip which is black; underside pitchy, clothed with tawny hairs : legs pitchy, armed with black spines ; shanks and tips of thighs tawny, the former adorned with gilded scales ; feet clothed with short black hairs : beings very dark brown, adorned with some little tawny marks which are mostly on the cross-veins, colourless from 192- INSECTA SAUNDEBSIANA. the lips along nearly two-tliinls of the hind border ; the outline of the brottm has curves alony the whole length, and between its two deepest indentations it extends nearly to the hind border of the wing ; wing-ribs and veins black ; poisers pitchy with pale yellow tips. Length of the body 4i lines ; of the wings 11 lines. Anthiux jequa, Fern. Nigro-fusca, scutelli margine postico albo-hirto, abdominis lateribxis alho nigroque fasciculatis, antennis pedibusqtie nigris, alis liinpidis macu- lis conjluentibus guttisque fuscis omatis. Black, covered with broivn, clothed with black hairs : a hoary tinge on the fore part of the head, whose hind part is gray and clothed with short white hairs : chest and breast partly clothed with hoary and dark tawny hairs : hind border of the scutcheon adorned ivilh a fringe of while hairs : abdomen nearly elliptical, a little shorter and broader than the chest, adorned with tufts of black and while hairs, which last occupy nearly the whole of the back towards the tip : legs covered with reddish brown, adorned with white scales, armed with white spines : ivings colourless, brown at the base, adorned with numerous brown spots which are mostly confluent, and with brotvn dots ivhich form a rotv along the fore border and a feiv shorter and less distinct rows on the disk ; the tips and nearly two-thirds of the hind border are co- lourless with the exception of six round brown dots ; the borders of the cross- veins are pale brown ; wing-ribs and veins black ; poisers black with white tips. Length of the body 5 lines; of the wings 14 lines. South America. Anthkax succedens, Fem. Nigra, nigro-hirta, antennis nigris, pedibus piceis, tibiis fulvis, alis lim- pidis basi fuscis fusco bimaculalis. Black, clolbcd with short black haii-s and long black bristles : abdo- men obconical, a little longer than the chest: legs pitchy, beset with black bristles ; shanks dark tawny : wings colourless, brown towards the base ; the outline of the brown is irregular and in its upper course it projects into the colourless part ; and it extends from near two-thirds of the fore border to DiPTiinA. 1 93 one-fourth of the hind border ; there are also two brown spots, one at the base of the tip cross'-vein, the other at the base of the inner vein of the third svbmarginal areolet ; wing-ribs, veins and poiseis black. Length of the body 2i lines ; of the wings 7 lines. Anthrax antecedens, Fern. Nigra, nigro-setosa, pedibus fulvis, femoribus nigris, alts limpidis basi fuscis fusco trimaculatis. Black, rather thickly beset with black bristles which form a fringe in front of the chest ; sides clothed with gray hairs : abdomen nearly elliptical, a little shorter than the chest : legs dark tawny, beset with black bristles ; thighs black ; feet pitchy towards the tips : wings colourless, dark brown from two-thirds of the fore border to one-fourth of the hind border ; the out- line of the brown is irregular, and in its upper course it is deeply indented by the colourless part ; there are three brown spots on the cross-veins and of these the middle spot is iu one wing attended by a satellite ; wing-ribs and veins black; poisers tawny with pitchy knobs. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. United States. Anthrax ausibalis, Saunders MSS., Fern. Nigro.fusca, nigro-hirta, thoracis laleribns posticis fcrrugineis, abdominis laleribus albo bifasciculatis, antfnnis jyedibusque nigris, alis nigro- fuscis, guttis apice margineque postico interrupte sinuato-limpidis fusco quinque-maculatis. Very dark brown, clothed with black hairs: sucker and feelers black : sides of the hind part of the chest very dark ferruginous, beset with a small tuft of black bristles : abdomen a little shorter than the chest, slightly in- creasing in breadth from the base to the almost truncated tip, fringed with black hairs on each side which is adorned with two tufts of white hairs, one at the base, the other near the tip : legs black or pitchy, armed with black spines : feet clothed with very short black hairs : wings very dark brown ; borders of the cross-veins almost colourless ; a colourless spot beneath the fore border near the tip, from which to far beyond half the length of the 194 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. hind border the wings are colourless ; this space contains five brown spots, and is interrupted by the brown part, which extends across its middle to the hind border, and nearer the base of the wing is deeply and irregularly in- dented by it ; the outline of the brown is also irregular in other parts, and apparently consists of incomplete spots ; wing-ribs and veins black ; pois- ers black with wliite tips. Length of the body 4— 4i lines ; of the wings 13—14 lines. Van Diemen's Land. Swan Eiver. Genus PHTHIEIA, Meigeti. Phthieia gkacilis, Mas. Nigra, pectore fusco, abdomine flavo-fusco, antennis nigris, pedibus piceis, tibiis ferrugineis, pedibus posticis nigris, alts cincreis ad costam subfuscis. Deep black, clothed with black hairs: head clothed beneath with hoary hairs ; peristoma pitchy : sucker nearly as long as the body : breast dark brown, some of its hairs lawny : abdomen obconical, yellowish brown, a little longer and narrower than the chest : legs pitchy, long and slen- der, clothed with short black hairs ; shanks ferruginous ; hind legs black : vnngs gray, brownish beneath the fore border ; wing-ribs ferrugi- nous ; veins black, ferruginous at the base ; poiscrs tawny ; knobs pitchy above. Length of the body 2^ lines ; of the wiugs 6^ lines. East India. Phthiiha hilaris, Fem. Nigra, capite thoracis lateribns scutcllo pectorcquc flavis nigro variis, abdomine fulvo basi nigro faseiato apicc compresso, antennis nigris, pedibus fulvis, femoribus piceo vittatis, tibiis apice piceis, tarsis nigris, alis limpidis. Head wliiti.sh yellow, partly clothed with hoary hairs, black behind with the exception of a band along the hind borders of the eyes : mouth black, a little shorter than the chest : feelers black ; third joint nearly linear for half the length, slightly tapering from thence to the tip, more than twice the length of the first joint : chest black ; sides and breast yellow DIPTEBA. 195 varied with black: scutcheon yellow, adorned on the fore border with a black band which supports a short black stripe : abdomen tawny, obconi- oal, a little shorter than the chest, adorned near the base with a broad black band ; tip compressed ; legs tawny ; thighs with pitchy streaks ; tips of the shanks pitchy ; feet black : wings quite colourless ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny towards the base and along the fore border ; poisers tawny with pitchy knobs. Length of the body 3i lines ; of the wings 7 lines. New South Wales. Phthiria compbessa, Plate 6, fig. 3. Genus GERON, Hoffmansegg. Gekon capensis, Mas. Nigra, albo-hirta, pedibus fulvis, tarsis apice genubusque piceis, alts albidis. Black, thickly clothed with silvery hairs : mouth a little longer than the body : abdomen obconical, narrower and a little longer than the chest : legs pale tawny, beset with very short black bristles ; feet pitchy towards the tips ; hips and claws black ; hiees pitchy : wings whitish ; wing-ribs yellow ; veins tawny, yellow at the base and along the fore border ; poisers yellow. Length of the body 2i lines ; of the wings 5 lines. Cape. Genus PHILOPOTA, Wiedemann. Philopota sodria, Mas. Ferruginea, capite piceo, thorace vittis obliquis Jlavis ornato, lateribus scu- tello ventreque fulvis, antennis nigris, pedibus fulvis, alts subcinereis. Body ferruginous : head pitchy : eyes black, meeting on the cro^vn ; facets of moderate size : sucker pale tawny, a little longer than the body : feelers black, very short : two diagonal stripes crossing each other in front of the chest ; breast and sides of the chest tawny ; abdomen obconical, much longer than the chest, tawny on each side and beneath : legs tawny : wings 196 INSECTA 8AUNDERSIANA. slightly gray ; wing-ribs and veins pitchy ; scales pale tawny ; poisers yellow. Length of llie body ii lines ; of the wings 9 lines. South America. Philopota temperaia, Mas. Fusca,flavo varia, antennis nigris, pedibtis Jlavis, alts subcinereis. Body dark brown: head convex and adorned with a yellow mark above the base of the feelers : bieast and sides of the chest i/eltoiv in front ; each side of the chest adorned with two oblique yellow bands, of these the front pair are short and approach very near each other on the back, the hind pair are more remote and extend above the base of the wings as far as each side of the fore border of the scutcheon ; above the latter are two short stripes, and its sides and hind border are adorned with a yellow semicircle : abdomen yellow beneath and at the tip ; hind borders of the dorsal segments adorned with yelloiv bands which are interrupted in the middle, and become successively narrower and less distinct from the base to the tip: legs yellow : the other characters like those of the preceding species. Length of the body 4i lines ; of the wings 8 lines. South America. PARISUS, n. g. Phtbiria affinis : areola la posterior margine remota. Allied to Phthiria, but the first posterior areolet is closed at some distance from the border. Pakisus patebculos, Fem., Plate 6, fig. 8. Niger, albido-hirtus, scutello abdominisque upice fulvis, antennis basi pe- dibusque Jlavis, alis albidis. Body black, clothed with long whitish hairs : eyes black ; all the facets very small: sucker black, as long as the chest: first and second joints of the feelers pale yellow : scutcheon tawny : abdomen obconical, not longer than the chest ; tip tawny : legs yellow, long and slender : wings whitish ; wing-ribs yellow ; veins tawny, yellow at the base and along the fore border; poiseis yellow. Length of the body li line; of the wings 4 lines. Cape. 197 TABUDA, n. g. Apatomi/zce afUnis. Areola; posteriores quinqite ; lalonga; 2a 3a- que breves, longitudine tequales ; 4a 3a duplo longior ; Oa •la multo latior et paullo longior ; areola la inferior elausa. Allied to Apatomyza, but there arc five posterior areolets; the first is long ; the second and third short and of equal length ; the fourth is about twice the length of the third ; the fifth is much broader and a little longer than the fourth ; the first inferior areolet is closed. Taiiuda phlvipf.s, Mas, Plate 6, fig. 4. Nigra, capilc subhis pectoreque albo-hirlis,abdomine cincrco, ventre apice- que fulvi.i, antennis pedibusque fuivis, alis subcinercis basi et ad costam subfulvis, cellularum discis subalbidis, nervis transversis nigra subnebulosis. Black : head clothed with black hairs ; underside very thickly clothed with white hairs : eyes parted by a narrow interval on the crown ; all the facets very small : sucker not longer than the head ; palpi black, beset with black hairs : feelers very dark tawny ; first and second joints very thickly beset with black bristles : breast hoary, clothed with white hairs : abdomen gray, nearly linear, a little longer and narrower than the chest, clothed with hoary hairs ; underside and tip tawny : legs tawny, beset with black bris- tles which are mostly on the shanks : wings pale gray, slightly tawny at the base and along the fore border as far as the brand which is brown ; disks of the areolets partly whitish ; cross-veins slightly clouded with black ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins tawny at the base and along the fore border; scales colourless ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 3^ lines ; of the wings 7 lines. CHORISTUS, n. g. Proboscis thorace multo longior. Antennis articulus lus longus, linearis; 2us brcvissimus ; 3us li longitudine, sctaceus. Areolae submar- ginales 2 ; areola; posteriores 4 ; areolee discoidales 3 ; areola la inferior aperta. 2l) 198 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. Moutli much longer than the chest: first joint of the feelers long, linear; second very short ; third as long as the first, tapering from the base to the tip which ends in a very little spine ; two submarginal areolets ; three posterior areolets, or in other words four, but the first is closed before the border and thus forms a discoidal areolet ; three more discoidal areo- lets ; first inferior areolet open to the border. Choristus niwioNs, Mas, Plate 5, fig: 5. Niger,Jlavo-hirtus, capite albo-piloso, tibiis fulvis, alis Jlavo-fuscis apice margineque postico subcinereis. Black, thickly clothed with dull pale yellow hairs: head thickly clothed with white hairs ; a few black hairs on the crown : sucker much longer than the chest; lancets with tawny tips: first joint of the feelers long and linear ; second very short ; third as long as the first, tapering from the base to the tip which ends in a very little spine : chest thickly clothed v'ilh dull pale i/cllow hairs : abdomen slightly obconical,a little shorter than the chest : legs beset with tawny bristles ; thighs adorned with a hoary covering; shanks tawny with black lips ; wings yellowish brown from the base to three-fourths of the fore border, pale gray from thence to the tips and along the hind border; wing-ribs pitchy; veins black, pitchy towards the base ; poisers tawny with yellow tips. Length of the body 2^ lines ; of the wings 7 lines. New South Wales. Genus BOMBYLIUS, Linn. Group A. — C. D. B. M. 273. Cross-veins along the hind border of the wing forming an interrupted line. Discoidal areolet closed. The little cross-vein at three-fifths of the length of the discoidal areolet. 199 BOMBYLIUS VIDUUS, Feiii. Ater, nigro-hirlm, thoracis lateribusfutm-pilosis, anlennis nigris, pedibus fulms, tarsis piceis, alia cinereis casta basalt fuscis. Black : liead clothed above with black hairs, and partly iu front with tawny hairs : mouth about half the length of the body : chest clothed with black hairs, having a fringe of pale tawny hairs on each side : abdomen slightly obconical, a little broader and much shorter than the chest, beset on each side and at the tip with black bristles : legs tawny, armed with black bristles and spines ; feet pitchy : wings dark gray, dark broivn beneath the fore border, across half the breadth and along half the length from the base ; wing-ribs and veins pitchy ; poisers tawny with yellow knobs. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 6 lines. Van Diemen's Land. Group D.— C. D. B. M. 276. Characters of Group A. The little cross-vein somewhat before two- thirds of the length of the discoidal areolet. BOMBYLIUS ItECEDEKS, Fem. Niger, fulm-hirtus, antennis nigris, pedibus fulms,femoribus basi nigris, alts sublimpidis vitta ad cosiam fulva fusco marginata. Black, rather narrow, thickly clothed with pale tatvny hairs; some black hairs in front of the head : mouth about half the length of the body : abdomen obconical, a little longer than ihe chest, luith some black hairs at the tip : legs tawny, beset with a few black bristles ; thighs black towards the base ; feet pitchy towards the tips : icings nearly colourless, with a short fringe of black bristles on the base of the fore border ; a broad tawny stripe occupies the base and extends thence beneath the fore border for more than three-fourths of the length ; it is bordered in the disk with brown which has a darker hue on the cross-veins; wing-ribs lawny ; veins black, partly tawny at the base and along the fore border ; poisers tawny with pilchy knobs. Length of the body 3j lines; of the wings 9 lines. 300 INSECTA SAUNUERSIANA. Group G.— C. D. B. M. 279. Characters of Group A. The little cross-vein at half the length of the discoidal areolet. BOMBVLIUS MACULIFER. Niger, fulvo-hirtus, capite subtus jiccloretjue albo-hirtis, thoracis latcribus abdominisque maculis quutuor albo-hirtis, abdominis fascia fusco- hirta maculisque dorsatibus argenteis, pedibus fulvis, alis basi et ad costam oblique fuscis. Black, clothed with tawny hairs : head mostly clothed above with black hairs, clothed beneath with while hairs ; peristoma and epistoma tawny : mouth longer than the body : a stripe of whitish hairs on each side of the chest: breast clothed with whitish hairs: abdomen a little shorter and broader than the chest, its length not exceeding its breadth, adorned with a broad band of broiun hairs and with four tufts of whitish hairs, one on each side of the fore border, the other on each side of the hind border of the band ; a stripe composed of spots of short silvery while hairs, one on the back of each segment : legs tawny with a whitish tinge, beset with black bristles ; feet darker towards the tips : tdngs colourless, dark brown from three-fourths of the fore border to one-fourth of the hind border ; the out- line of the brown is slightly notched in the middle and jmt includes the cross-veins of the disk ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base and along the fore border ; poisers yellow. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 13 lines. Group H.— C. D. B. M. 281. Characters of Group A. The little cross-vein somewhat before half the length of the discoidal areolet. BOMBYLIUS SIONIFER, MaS. Ater, nigro-hirtus, thorace cano-hirlo, abdominis lateribus albo nigroque fasciculatis, antennis pedibusque nigris, alis albidis. Black : head thickly clothed in front ivith black hairs : mouth more than half the length of the body : chest clothed with hoary hairs : breast DIPTERA. 201 clothed with black hairs : abdomen obconical, much longer than the chest, adorned on each side with tufts of black hairs and near the tip with a tuft of white hairs : legs black: wings whitish ; wiiig-ribs pitchy; veins black, tawny towards the base ; poisers black. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. Group L.— C. D. B. M. 284. Characters of Group A. The little cross-vein somewhat beyond one- third of the length of the discoidal areolet. BoMBYLius socius, Fem. Niger, futvo-hirtus, capite sublus alho-hirto, scutcllo rufo, abdominis lale- ribus apiceque nigro-selosis, pedibits fulvis, alis subcintreis basi fulvis. Blade, very thickly clothed with pale tawny hairs: head mostly clothed above with black hairs, clothed beneath with white hairs : mouth rather shorter than the body : scutcheon red : sides and tip of the abdomen beset with black bristles : legs laiimy ; feet pitchy towards the tips : unngs pale gray, tawny at the base ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base and along the fore border ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 4i — 5 lines; ofthcwingsU — 12 lines. East Indies. Group M.— C. D. B. M. 286. Characters of Group A. Head very broad. The little cross-vein at one-third of ihc length of the discoidal areolet. BoMBVLius DisTiNCTUS, Fem. Niger, fulvo-hirtus, scutello ihoracisque postici lateribus ftilitis, antennis nigris basi piceis, pedibus fulvis, alis subcinereis ad costam fulvis. Black, thickly clothed with bright tawny hairs above and with yellowish white hairs beneath : head m-arly as broad as the chest ; sucker rather thick towards the tip, hardly half the length of the chest : first and second joints of the feelers pitchy, clothed with tawny hairs : scutcheon and sides of the 202 TNSEOTA SAUNDEHSIANA. liind part of the cliest tawny : abdomen slightly obconical, a little shorter than the chest : legs pale iamiy ; feel darker, their tips black : vings slightly gray, tawny for some space beneath the fore border; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny in the tawny parts of the wing ; poisers tawny with whitish knobs. Length of the body 5 — 6 lines ; of the wings 12 — 14 lines. New South Wales. Swan River. Group N.— C. D. B. M. 288. Cross-veins along the hind border of the wing forming an interrupted line. Head very broad. Discoidal areolet open. BoMBYi-ius nREviKosTRis? Macq., Fem. Niger, fulvo-hirtus, antennis 7iigris basi piceis, pedibus fulvis, tibiis apice piceis, tarsis nigris, alis limpidis. Black, stout, very thickly clothed with tawny hairs : head broad : eyes parted above by a broad interval: sucker rather shorter than the chest: first and second joints of the feelers pitchy, clothed with dark tawny hairs ; first long ; second short ; third tapering to the tip, a little longer than the second : abdomen nearly oval, hardly narrower and not longer than the chest : legs dark tawny, beset with short bristles ; shanks pitchy towards the tips ; feet black : wings colourless ; wing-ribs and veins tawny ; veins darker along the hind border and towards the tips ; poisers yellow. Length of the body 34 lines ; of the wings 7 lines. Fam. INFLATiE, Lair. EXETASIS, n. g. Cyrto afBnis: areolae costales 3, submarginales 1, poslcriores 4, iiife- riores 2, et discoidales 4 ; areola la inferior inarginc clausa. Distinguished from Cyrlus by the wing-veins ; there are three costal, one submarginal, four posterior, two inferior, and four discoidal areolcts ; the stump of a vein projects from the inner side into the disk of the third posterior areolet ; the first inferior areolet is closed on the border. 303 ExETAsis TUMENs, Plate 6, fig. 1. Fulva, capite ihoracisque disco nigris, abdominis segmentorum piceo fas- ciatis, antennis nigris basi fulvis, pedibus fulvis, ails subcinereis. Black, thickly clothed with short tawny hairs: eyes black ; the facets very small : feelers black, tawny at the ba,sc : scutcheon and sides of the chest tawny ; breast mostly tawny : abdomen tawny, increasing in breadth from the base till near the tip, a little longer and broader than the chest ; each segment adorned with a pitchy band which is widened and somewhat angular towards the fore border : legs tawny : wings pale gray ; wing-ribs and veins tawny ; the latter partly black ; scales pale gray ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. Brazil. Genus HENOPS, Illigcr. Henops basalis, Mas. Piccus, capite nigra, abdomine fulvo maculis ulrinque diseoqnc nigris, segmentorum marginibus posticis albis , antennis nigris, pedibus fulvis, femoribus basi tarsisque nigris, alis limpidis. Head black : feelers black : c/iest and breast pitchy : chest thickly clothed with short pale tawny hairs : abdomen tawny with a row of black spots on each side ; hind borders of the segments white ; disk mostly black for full half the length from the base; underside with an interrupted slender blade band on the fore border of each segment : legs tawny ,• hips, thighs fur half the length from the base, and feet black: wings colourless ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins dark tawny ; scales white. Length of the body 2 lines ; of the wings 4 lines. New South Wales. Henops costalis, Mas. Piceus, capite nigro, thoracis margine villisque duabus fulvis, abdominis segmentorum marginibus posticis albidis, alls limpidis. Head black : feelers tawny : chest and breast pitchy, clothed with pale lawny hairs ; chest adorned with a tawny border and two tawny stripes : 204 INSECTA SAUNDER8IANA. abdomen pitchy ; hind borders of the segments whitish: legs pitchy; hips beneath, knees and fnre-feel tawny : wings colomless; wing-ribs and veins dark tawny ; veins partly pitchy along the fore holder ; scales pale gray with tawny borders. Length of the body li line ; of the wings 3 lines. East Indies. Fam. EMPID.^, Meigen. Genus EMPIS, Linn. Empis fimbria, Fem. Niyer, cinerascens, antennis pedibvsque nigris, his latissime dliatis, alls limpidis bau subfuscis. Black, tinged with gray : head and chest thinly clothed with black hairs : eyes dark red : mouth pitchy : abdomen clothed with short black hairs : leys covered with iridescent down, very deeply fringed with black hairs : wings colourless, pale brown at the base ; wing-ribs, veins and poisers pitchy. Length of the body 1 line ; of the wings 2j lines. Brazil. Genus HILARA, Meigen. HiLARA i.iTOREA, Fallen. Van Diemen's Land. Hilar* certa, Fem. Nigro-cinerea, thorace quadri-vittalo, antennis nigris, pedibmfulvis,femo- ribus tibiis tarsisque apice nigris, alis subfuscis. Black, dull, tinged with gray which forms four stripes on the chest, clothed with short black hairs : eyes red : mouth pitchy, nearly as long as the chest : feelers black : leys tawny, beset with short black hairs and bristles; tips of thighs and of shanks black; feet black, tawny at the base: wings pale brown, palest in the disks of the areolets in the middle part ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 2^ lines ; of the wings 6 lines. Van Diemen's Land. 205 HiLARA CONI-IHMAIA, Mas. Nigra, pedibus piceis, atis sublimpidis. Black, thinly clothed with black hairs and bristles : eyes pitchy : sucker black, much shorter than the chest : feelers black : legs pilchy : vfings nearly colourless ; cross-vehts clouded with brown ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black, pitchy at the base ; poisers yellow. Length of the body Ij line ; of the wings 4 lines. Van Diemen's Land. Fatn. HYBOTINiE, Meigen. Genus HYBOS, Fahr. Hybos dimidutus, Mas et Fem. Nigro-mneus, antennis nigris, tibiis piceis, tarsis fulvis, alls nigro-fuscis apice limpidis. Head black, clothed with very few black hairs ; eyes dark red : mouth pitchy : feelers black : chest brassy black, shining, clothed with brown hairs : abdomen coppery : legs shining ; thighs brassy black ; knees ferruginous ; shanks pitchy ; feet tawny : wings dark broum and widened on the fore border for a little more than half the length from the base, colourless thence to the tips ; wing-ribs and veins black ; poisers pitchy. Length of the body \\ line ; of the wings 3i lines. Brazil. Hybos integer, Mas. Nigro-ceneus, thoraci vittis duabus fuscis, tibiis piceis, tibiis intermediis tarsisque fulvis, alis nigro-fuscis apice fuscis. Black : eyes dark red : mouth pitchy : feelers black : chest slightly chalybeous, clothed with brown hairs, adorned with two indistinct brown stripes : abdomen coppery, fringed with black hairs on each side towards the base: legs beset with black hairs and bristles; thighs coppery; shanks pitchy ; knees, feet and middle-shanks taumy : wings brown, blackish brown with a widened fore border for more than half the length from the base ; 2k '^06 INSECTA SAUNDEliSlANA. wing-ribs and veins black ; poisers pitchy. Length of ihe body Inline; of the wings 4 lines. Binzil. Hyhos ruficollis, Fern. Niger, thorace luteo, antennis Jlains, pedibus fulvis, alu limpidis apice subfmcis. Head black : eyes red ; facets very large : sucker tawny ; feelers yellow : chest iuteous : abdomen black, shining, thinly clothed with hoary hairs : legs lawny, clothed with pale yellow hairs ; feet dark taiony : wings nearly colourless, pale brown at the tips ,• a spindle-shaped dark brown spot near the tip of the fore border ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins hlack, tawny at the base ; poiser.s tawny. Length of the body li line ; of the wings 4 lines. Brazil. Fam. DOLICHOPODES, Lair. Genus DIAPHORUS, Meigen. DiAPHOBUS 1-EMOHATUS, Mas. Aurco-viridis albo-Jlorens , antennis nigris, pedibus fulvis, femoribus nigris, alis sublimpidis. Green : head white in front, clothed beneath with white haii-s ; two black bristles on the tubercle of the eyelets : eyes red : mouth and feelers black : chest and abdomen beset with black bristles : chest slightly tinged with whitish bloom, adorned with a golden hue which is most prevalent in front : breast hoary; abdomen brassy green, bluish at the tip: legs tawny, cldthed with black hairs and bristles ; thighs black : wings nearly colour- less ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black ; poisers yellow. Length of the body li line ; of the wings 3 lines. Brazil. aoT Genus PSILOPUS, Megerle. PsiLOPUS LEPIDCS, Mas. Viridis, abdominis segiiwnlonim marginibus anlicis nigris, anlennis pe- dibusque nigris, alis limpidis fusco bifasciatif. Bright green, beset with black bristles: head blue, tinged with purple, adorned in front with while bloom ; eyes bright red : mouth black : feelers black ; sixth joint as long as the chest : chest not shining, tinged with blue : breast with a hoary covering ; abdomen tapering from the base to the tip, narrower and much longer than the chest; a black band on the fore border of each segment : legs black, clothed with black hairs and bristles : wings colourless, adorned with two dark brown bands which are united on the fore border ; lip cross-vein forming a right angle, whence it is indistinctly waving to the tip of the wing ; lower cross-vein very slightly waving : wing-ribs and veins black. Length of (he body 2^ lines ; of the wings 6 lines. Mexico. PsiLOPUS ELECTUS, Mas et Fem. Purpureas, pectore abdominisque fasciis viridibus, antennis pedibusque nigris, tibiis fulvis, alis sublimpidis casta fasciisque duabus connexis fuscis. Purple, beset with black bristles ; head blue, tinged with purple on the crown, green in front, with a white bloom about the mouth : eyes red : mouth black : feelers black, sixth joint shorter than the chest : chest partly blue : breast green : abdomen longer and narrower than tlie chest, of the male cylindrical with alternate purple and green bands, of the female obco- nical : legs black ; thighs thinly clothed with white hairs ; shanks taivny : wings nearly colourless, dark brown along the fore border for near half the length from the tip ; from this stripe two broad irregular bands proceed near to the hind border, are there connected, and thus include a square colourless spot; tip cross-vein forming a slightly acute angle; loiver cross-veiti very slightly waving ; wing-vibs and veins black ; poisers yellow. Length of the body 1 J line '• "f tl>e wings 4 lines. Brazil. 208 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. PsiLOPUS EXEMPTUS, Mas. Purpureo-cyaneus, thorace viridi, abdominis segmentorum marginibus an- licis nigris, antennis pedibusque tiigris, tibiis anticis fulvis, alis sub- limpidis casta fasciisque duabus connexisfuscis. Body beset willi black bristles : head blue, tinged with ■purple and green, adorned with a white covering in front, clothed with white hairs be- neath : eyes red : feelers black ; first and second joints beset with long black bristles ; sixth joint nearly as long as the chest : chest bright green with a whitish tinge in front : abdomen purplish blue, cylindrical, very much longer than the chest ; fore borders of the segments black ; legs black, long and slender, clothed with short black hairs ; fore shanks tawny : wings nearly colourless ; a brown stripe along the fore border is broader towards the tip but narrow and interrupted towards the base, it sends forth two irre- gular bands which approach the hind border, and are slightly connected by a streak along the third longitudinal vein ; the fourth vein is also clouded with brown ; wing-ribs, veins, and poisers black ; tij> cross-vein forming a slightly acute angle ; lower cross-vein very slightly waving. Length of the body 2i lines; of the wings 5 lines. Brazil. PsiLOPUs NiTiDUs, Mas et Fern. Cyaneo-viridis aureo et purpurea varius, fem. abdominis segmentorum rrmrginibus anticis nigris, antennis pedibusque tiigris, tibiis fulvis, alis limpidis fusco bifasciatis. Bluish green, adorned with white lustre, beset with black bristles ; head clothed beneath with white hairs ; crotvn purplish blue : eyes bright red : feelers black ; first and second joints beset with black bristles ; sixth nearly as long as the chest : front of the chest and base of the abdomen tinged with a golden hue : abdomen longer than the chest ; of the male cylindrical, purplish blue at the tip where the appendages are black ; of the female ob- conical,/«re borders of the segments blackish : legs black, beset with black bristles, clothed with black down ; thighs thinly clothed with white liairs ; shanks dark tatvny : wings pale gray ; a large brotvn spot extends along near half of the fore border, ceases before the tip and sends forth two bands which occupy the cross-veins, that nearest the tip shortly terminates and incloses a niPTKHA. "200 square colourless .spot bij its connexion with the other which extends near to the hind border; wing-ribs and veins black; tip cross-vein much bent, fanning nearly a right angle ; lower cross-vein very slightly xvaving ; poisere pitchy. Length of the body H line; of the wings 3i lines. PsiLOPDS ExiMius, Mas. Cyaneo-viridis purpureo varius, abdominis segmentorum suturis nigro- (tneis, antennis nigris, pedibus piceis, tibiis aiiterioribus fulvis, alis subcinereis. Bright bluish green, beset with black bristles : front of the head and breast adorned with a white covering ; crown purplish : eyes bright red : mouth tawny: feelers black ; sixth joint a little longer than the chest : chest indistinctly striped ; scutcheon purple : abdomen about twice tlie length of the chest, nearly cylindrical, slightly tapering to the tip, adorned with two purple bands ; sutures of the segments and tip brassy black ; appendages taumy : legs pitchy, covered with black down, beset with a few black bristles ; tips of the thighs and four front shanhs tawny : wings very slightly grayish ; wing-ribs and poisers tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base ; tip cross-vein forming a slightly obtuse angle ; lower cross-vein with two deep curves. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. New Holland. PsiLOI'US VENUSTUS, Mas. Aureo-viridis, abdomine basi subtusque fulvo, antennis basi pedibusque fulvis,femoribusflavis, alis subcinereis. Golden green, adorned with a white bloom, beset with black bristles : eyes bright red, with a crimson tinge: mouth tawny: first and second joints of the feelers tawny, beset with short black bristles : abdomen tapering, clothed on each side of the base with white hairs, narrower than the chest and near twice its length, lawny at the base and beneath, coppery and cylin- drical towards the tip : legs taumy, beset with few black bristles, clothed with very short black hairs, which as in the following species of this genus and of Dolichopus, form parallel rows : thighs yellow : wings veri/ pale gray ; lip of the fore border and cross-veins slightly clouded with darker colour ; wing-ribs and poisers tawny ; veins black, tawny towards the 210 FN'SEOTA SAUNDERSIANA. base ; tip cross-vein forming u. dighUy oblme angle ; lower cross-vein with two deep curves ; between lu/iich there is a short sttimp. Length of the body 3 lines ; of llie wings 6 lines. West Australia. PSILOPUS EXQOI SITUS. Purpureus, abdominis basi et segmentormn marginibus anlicis viridibus, antennis nigris, pedibus pieeis, alis subcinereis. Broad, bright purple, heset with black bristles: head green about the base of the feelers, clothed beneath with white hairs ; epistoma and breast adorned with a whitish covering: eyes bright red : mouth pitchy : /w/crs i/ncA ;. first and second joints beset with black bristles: airfomere tnpering from the base to the tip, longer and narrower than the chest, green at the base and on the fore border of each segment : legs pitchy, clothed with very short black hairs; thighs thinly clotlied with long white hairs: wings very slightly gray ; wing-ribs and veins black ; tip cross-vein forming a right angle ; lower cross-vein very slightly waving ; poisers pitchy. Length of the body 2^ lines; of the wings 5 lines. Brazil. PsiLOPUS ELEGANS, Mas. Viridis, antennis nigris, pedibus Jlavis, alts limpidis. Bright green, beset with black bristles ; front of the head purplish blue, adorned like the breast with a white covering : eyes bright red : mouth yellow : feelers black ; sixth joint nearly as long as the chest : abdomen cylin- drical, twice the length of the chest; appendages of the tip tawny : legs yellow, clothed with very short black hairs, beset with a few black bristles : wings colourless ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base ; poisers ferruginous ; tip cross-vein curved, not angular ; lower cross-vein very slightly waving. Length of the body H line ; of the wings 2? lines. East Indies. 211 PsiLOPus SUD1.ECTUS, Fem. Viridis, antennis niijris, pcdibus fuMs, yenubus tarsisque piceis, alu sub- cinereis. Green, thickly beset with black bristles, adorned beneath with a whitish covering : eyes bright red : luoulh lawny : feelers black ; sixth joint nearly as long as the chest : abdomen obconical, longer than the chest : legs tawny, clothed with very short black hairs ; hnces and feet pitchy ; wings slightly gray; wing-ribs and poisers tawny; veins black, tawny at the base. Length of the body Inline; of the wiugs3 lines. Van Diemen's Land. PsiLOPUS GEMMARIUS, Plate 6, fig. 2. Genus MEDETERUS, Fischer. Medetebus exustus, Fem. Nigro-mneus, capite antico viridi, abdomine purpureo-cupreo, antennis pedibtisque nigris, femoribus ceneis, alis cinereis casta venarumque marginibus fuscis. Allied to M. nntalus. Brome-black, beset with black bristles which form a cross row behind the head, adorned beneath with a whitish cover- ing : head green in front, clothed beneath with black hairs; peristoma pro- minent: eyes red; facets of the fore part rather large: feelers black: abdomen obconical, coppery vnth a slight purplish tinge, not longer than the chest : legs long, black, thickly clothed with black down, beset with a few black bristles ; thighs brassy, armed with black spines ; foot-cushions dark tawny : wings darkish gray, very dark broxim beneath the fore border and along the borders of the veins in the disk ; wing-ribs and veins black ; poisers dark tawny with, pitchy knobs. Length of the body 2^ lines; of the wings (5 lines. Bolton. North America. 212 INSEC'l'A SAUNDEUSIANA. Medeterus vihidiflos, Fern. Fulvo-viridis, thoracis disco fmco, antennis pedibusgue nigris, femoribus viridibits, alis subcinereis ad coslam subfuscis. Pale grass;/ green, tinged with taumy above and with whitish bloom be- neath, beset with a few black bristles : head brottm about the eyelets, beset behind the eyes with a row of black bristles, clothed beneath with white hairs : eyes red, thickly clothed with short white hairs : feelers black : disk of the chest broivnish : abdomen obconical, longer than the cliest, clothed with very short white hairs : legs black, clothed with very short black hairs, beset with black bristles ; thighs green, with which colour the shanks are also tinged : loings slightly gray, tinged with pale brozvn beneath the fore border; wing-ribs and poisers tawny; veins black, tawny at the base. Length of the body li line ; of the wings 4i lines. North America. Genus DOLICHOPUS, Latr. DOLICHOPUS BIFRONS, Fem. jEruo-viridis, capitis verlice cyaneo, abdominis segmenlorum marginibus anticis cupreis, antennis fulvis, pedibus Jlavis, alis subcinereis. Green, beset with black bristles, adorned beneath with a white cover- in" ; crotvn of the head blue, tinged with green and purple ; an olive stripe between the feelers and the cpistoma : eyes red : mouth pitchy : feelers taivny ; third joint pitchy towards the tip ; sixth black, feathered : a brassy tinge on the chest : abdomen obconical, longer than the cliest, coppery on the fore border of each segment whose sides are adorned with a while covering : legs yellow, clothed with very short black hairs which as usual are most frequent on the feet; thighs stout ; shanks beset with black bristles: wings very slightly gray ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base ; poisers yellow. Length of the body IJ— Ij line'; of the wings 3i — 4 lines. United States. 213 DoLicHOPus coNsons, Fem. j^neo-viridis, verlice purpurea, ihorace antico cj/aiteo, abdominis suturis jiigris, antennis pedibusqun fiihis, alls subcinereis. Cri-een, beset with black bristles, adorned beneath with a whitish co- vering: crown purple: eyes black : imm th tawny : /ee/ei-s ^ai/m?/ ,- sixlh joint black, feathered with much shorter hairs than those of D. bifrons : chest brassi/ green, blue in front : abdomen obconical, clothed wiih short black hairs, a liltlo longer than the chest ; sutures of the segments blackish : legs tawny, clothed with very short black hairs ; shanks beset with black bristles : wings graijixh ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base ; poiscrs tawny with yellow knobs. Length of the body 1} line; of the wings 3 lilies. United States. DoLICHOPUS CONTINGENS, Fem. Viridis, verlice purpurea, antennis pedibusque fuhis, alis subcinereis. Green, beset with black bristles, adorned beneath with a whitish covering : croum purple : eyes black ; month tawny : feelers tawny ; sixth joint blac/t, feathered like that of D. consors : abdomen obeniiical, clothed with short black hairs, a little longer than the chest: legs tawng, dothed with very .short black hairs ; shanks beset with black bristles : wings grayish ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, lawny at the base ; tip cross-vein less angnlar than that of D. cotisors ; poisers dark lawny. Length of the body li line; of the wings 3 lines. United States. DoLicHOPUs HEBEs, Fem. ^neus, vertice cyaneo, abdominis segmentorum marginibus poslicis viri- dibus, antennis pedibusque fulvis, alis cinereis casta wnarumque marginibus funds. Brassy, beset with black bristles, adorned beneath with a whitish co- vering : crown of the head blue : eyes red : feelers tawny ; sixlh joint black, feathered with very short hairs : abdomen obconical, longer than the chest ; 2f 214 INSECTA SADNDEHSIANA. hind borden nf the segmoits green : lei/s dark tawni/, olollicd with very sliort bliick liairs ; shanks beset witli black bristles : tvinys grai/, brown beneath the fore border, and along the borders of the veins ; wiiig-ribs and veins black ; poisers tawny with pitcliy knobs. Length of the body \\ line; of llie wings 3 lines. United States. DoLicHOPus iNEPTUs, Fem. Aineus, vertice purpureo, abdominis lateribus albo maeulatis apive viridi, anlennis pedibusque fidvis, tarsis subpiceis, alis cinereis fusco vit- talis. lirassy, beset with black bristles, adorned beneath with a whitish co- vering : crown purple : eyes ted : feelers tawni/ ; sixth joint black feathered jvith moderately long hairs : abdomen obconical, longer than the chest, green at the tip ; a white spot on each side of every segment : legs dark tawny, clothed with very short black hairs ; shanks beset with black bris- tles ; feet almost pitchy : wings gray, tinged with brown along the third and fourth longitudinal reins; wing-ribs tawny; veins black; poisers fawny with ferruginous knobs. Length of the body 1 J line ; of the wings 3 lines. United Stales. DoLiCHOPOs MACULiPES, Fem. ^neo-viridis purpurea varius, anlennis fulvis apice piceis, pedibus fulvis, tibiis nigra maeulatis, tarsis piceis, alis cinereis casta nervorumque marginihus fuscis. Brassy green, beset with black bristles, adorned beneath with a whitish covering : crown adorned with blue and purple .- eyes red : feelers tawny ; third joint pitchy ; sixth blade, feathered with moderately long hairs: disk of the chest partly purple : abdomen obconical, a little longer than the chest, clothed with short black hairs: legs tawny, clotlied with \ery short black liairs ; shanks beset with black bristles ; feet almost pitchy ; a black spot on the tip of each thigh ; five or six black spots on each shank, these spots are most distinct on the hind legs : wings gray, brown beneath the fore border and along the borders of the veins ; wing-ribs and poisers tawny ; veins black. Length of the body I i line ; of the wings 3^ lines. United StJites. ai5 Doiicnopus puLCHER, Mas et Fern. Ci/aneo-viridis, aniennis nigris, femoribns viridibus, tibiis fulvis, tarsis piceis apice nigris, alts limpidis. Bright green with a bluish tint, beset with black bristles, adorned be- neath with a whitish covering: eyes bright red: feelers black; sixth joint bare : abdomen of the male cylindrical, of the female obconical, clothed with short black hairs, a little longer than the chest ; scales of the male white bordered wilh black : legs ta\i>ny, clothed with very short black liairs ; thighs green ; shanks beset with black bristles ; feel pitchy, black towards the tips ; trochanters of the male yellow, of the female tawny : wings co- lourless ; wing.ribs tawny; veins black; fourth longitudinal vein not as ■usual converging to the third after its curve but almost parallel to it ; poisers yellow. Length of the body li line ; of the wings 3 lines. United States. DoLiCHOPUs vABius, Fem. A^neo-viridis cyaneo varius, abdomine fasciis albidis ornato, aniennis pe- dibusqve fulvis tarsis nigris, alis cinereis eosta tnaculisque quinque fuscis. Brassy green, tinged with blue, beset with black brislles, adorned be- neath with a whitish covering : eyes red ; feelers tatvny ; sixth joint black, feathered wilh moderately long hairs : airfomfn obconical, longer than the chest, adorned with bands of whitish hue : tegs dark tawny, clothed with short black hairs ; shanks beset with black brislles ; feet black : wings gray, brown beneath the fore border, adorned wilh four or five brown spots; wing-ribs pitchy; veins black; poisers tawny. Length of the body IJ line ; of the wings 3 lines. United Stales. •^16 INSECTA SAUN'nEDSTANA. Fam. MEGACEPIIALI, Meujen. Genus PIPUNCULUS, Latr. PiruNcuLus i.atehalis, Mas. Niger, canescens, abdominis lateribm catio maculatis, antenni.t pedibuxque fulvis, femoribiis scrralis, alis limpidis. Nearly allied to P.Jlavipes. Black, skiniug : head and breast adorned with hoary bloom : feelers taivny : abdomen hoary at the base and with a row of irregular hoary spots along each side ; tip tawny : legs tatcny ; thighs serrated beneath for half the length from the tips, the teeth black and very small ; tips of the feet pitchy; tips of the claws black : wings colourless; wing-libs tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base ; poisers lawny. . Length of the body 2 lines ; of the wings 6 lines. North America. Fam. SYRPHICI, Latr. Genus MICRODON, Illiger. MicRODON TnocHiLus, Fcm. Cyaneo-viride, purpurea anreopte varium, abdomhie cupreo, ventris apice fulvo, antennis nigris, pedibus purpurco-ctjaneis, alis subcimreis ad coslam subfuscis. Bright bluish green : head clothed above with black hairs and more thickly in front with pale yellow hairs ; eyes red ; all the facets very small : month pitchy; feelers black ; bristle pitchy : chest and abdomen clothed with pale yellow hairs : a purple spot at the base of each wing ; scutcheon and hind-chest tinged with purple : disk of the chest golden green : abdo. men bright coppery, golden towards the base which is bluish green ; under- side towards the tip tawny which hue is divided from the green by a ferru- ginous segment tinged with purple : legs purplish bhu\ thickly clothed with short black hairs ; shanks and feet tawny towards the lips beneath ; claws and foot-cushions bright tawny ; tips of the claws black : wings slightly gray, pale brown along the fore border ; wing-ribs, veins, and poisers pitchy. Length of the body 6i lines ; of the wings 1 1 lines. Mexico. 317 UBRISTES, n. g. Microdonti snmWs. Caput thorace lalius: antennae longse ; articulus lus longissimus, suboiirvus ; 2us brevissimus ; 3us linearis, apice coni- cus, lo pauUo longior: tarsi lati ; tibiae postica; jiilosa;. Allied lo Mkrodon. Male. Head broader than the chest: feelers long ; first joint very long, slightly curved ; second very short ; third linear, conical at the tip, a little longer than tlie first ; fourth springing from near the base of the third: feet rather broad, especially the hind jiair ; hind-shanks very hairy : wing-veins like those oi Microdon, but Ihe middle cross-vein beneath the submarginal areolet is a mere stump. Ubristes FLAViTiBiA, Mas, Plate 5, fig. 2. Nigro-amea, scutello piceo, abdominis apicefulvo, antennis rufis, pedibns piceis, larsis fulvis, tibiis poslicis fiavis fiavoque hirtis, alis cinereis basi et ad coslamfuscis. Body black, shining, clothed with black hairs ; a white spot at the base of the feelers : face thinly clothed with white hairs, adorned with two white spots on each side : eyes black ; fore part nearly flat, its facets a little larger than those elsewhere: mouth pitchy: feelers very dark red; first joint clothed above with very short black hairs : chest slightly bronzed ; scutcheon pitchy ; a purple tinge on the base of tlie hind-chest : abdomen nearly spindle-shaped, a liillc narrower and much longer than the chest ; tip dark tawny: legs pitchy, thickly clothed with short black hairs; feet dark tawny ; claws black, tawny towards the base ; foot-cushions pale tawny; hind-shanks pale yellow, thickly clothed with bright yellow hairs: wings gray, dark brown at the base and along two-thirds of the fore bor- der ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black : poisers pitchy, dark tawny towards the base. Length of the body 5 Hues ; of the wings 10 lines. Brazil. . . ^I^^H^xv^l^ - IN'SRCTA SAtlNDERSIANA. Geiiiis CHRYSOTOXUM, Meii/en. CmiysoTOxuM antiquum, Mas. Aineum, capite thoracis maculis qualunr sculello peclorisqtte jnacnlh duabtis flavis, abdomine purpureo-nigro fasciis duabits inlerruplis maculisqtoe duabus fulvis omato, ventre nigra maculis qualuor fulms, antennis nigris basi ru/is, pedibas fulvis, femoribus basi nigris, alis subcinereis ad costam fulvis. Head bright yellow above, whitish and clothed with pale yellow hairs in front and beneath ; a pitchy stripe between the feelers and the epistoma : eyes coppery red above, pitchy beneath where the facets are smallest : feelers black ; first and second joints dark red, beset with very short black bristles : sixth joint tawny : chest and breast brassg, clothed with tawny hairs : chest adorned with two yelloiv spots on each side ; scutcheon yellow with a pitchy spot in the disk : a large yellow mark on each side of the breast : abdometi purplish black, longer and broader than the chest, adorned with two interrupted arched tawny bands and near to the tip with two very small tawny spots ; underside black, shining, adorned with four large taivny spots : tegs tawny ; thighs black towards the base : wings slightly gray, dark tawny along the fore border, paler in the disk where the two colours blend ; wing-ribs and veins ferruginous, the latter pitchy towards the tips ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. East Indies. CiinYsoToxuM iNDiouM, Mas. jEnemn, capite thoracisque vittis duabus, sculellique margine flavis, scu- lello pectore abdomineque fulvis huic fasciis quatuor nigris, antennis ferrugineis, apice piceis, pedibus fulvis, alis limpidis. Head bright yellow, whitish and clothed with whitish hairs behind and beneath ; a tawny stripe between the feelers and the epistoma, on ap- proaching which it becomes pitchy ; eyes ])itchy ; all the facets very small : feelers ferruginous, pitchy towards the tips : chest and breast brassy : chest with a yellow stripe on each side ; scutcheon tawny with a yellow hind bor- der; breast partly tawny : abdomen lawny , yellow towards the base, pitchy at the tip, adorned with four arched black bands ; the first and second nar- row and entire, joined together by a short middle stripe, third and fourth !219 shorter and broader, third inlevrupled, fourth blending with the pitchy hue at the tip; underside paler : Irgn tawny : wings colourless ; wing-ribs, veins and poisers tawny. Length of tlie body 5 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. East Indies. Chuysotoxum stii'atum, Vem. Nigrum, capite scuiello ihorace pecloreque vittis duahm abdominis fajsciv; tribus maculisque duabus viridi-Jlavis, abdominis ad apieem annulo ventrisque fasciis quatuor flavis, antennis niyris, pedibus fulvis, tihiis Jlavis, alis sublimpidis ad costam fulvis. Black : head bright greenish yellow ; crown black, with a large yellow spot on each side; a black stripe between the feelers and the epistoma : eyes pitchy ; all the facets very small : sucker tawny : feelers black ; sixlh joint tawny : chest adorned with an interrnpted greenish yellow stripe im each side ; scutcheon greenish yellow with a tawny dish ; a short greenish yellow stripe on each side of the breast : abdomen much broader and longer than the chest, adorned with three broad interrupted greenish yellow bunds, and with two somewhat triangular spots of the same colour resting on the hind borders of the third and fourth segments ; jifth segment adorned tvith a nearly circular yellow spot which incloses a triangular black spot ; underside xoith four yellow bands, the frst and the second entire, the third and the fourth interrupted : legs bright pale tawny ; shanks bright pale yelloiv with tawny lips : wings almost colourless ; fore border adorned with a tawny stripe which becomes brown near the tip ; wing-ribs and veins tawny ; poisers pale yellow. Length of (he body 4 J lines ; of the wings 10 lines. Chrysotoxum GByKcuM, Mas ct Fem. Flavum, thorace nigra quadrivittato, abdomine fasciis fulvis ornato, an- tennis nigris, pedibus fulvis, alls limpidis ad costam fulvis apice fuscis. Head yellow, tawny in front, that of the female adorned with a scutch- con-shapcd black mark on the crown comnuinicating with a black spot at the base of the feelers, the latter sjiot sends out a branch to each eye; a black stripe between the feelers and the epistoma : eyes red : feelers black j sixth joint tawny : chest black, adorned with two slender yellow middle ^ JUUJtM^kjMKv.^ ■ ., , . mk' L .1.^^. l^iMa-.>U>Al.^AHJi: H*/i i^ . 220 INSECTA SAUNDEKSIANA. Stripes and with two broader and inlerrupted taivny stripes : breast black, with a taumi/ oblique band on each side : abdomen oval, longer and much bioadcr than tlie chest, adorned with three interrupted arched lawny bands ; hind border of the third segment tawny ; an angular tawny stripe on the kind border of the fourth segment ; disk of the fifth segment yellow, incbuiing a reversed Y-shaped spot : legs tawny : wings colourless ; the broad tawny stripe beneath the fore border becomes brown towards the tip ; wing-ribs anil veins tawny, veins pitchy towards the tips ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 11 lines. Albania. Genus CERATOPHYA, Maequart. Cebatophya vauieoata, Fem., Plate 6, fig. 6. Nigra, maeulis aureo-pilosis ornata, sculello piceo, antennis rufis basi subltts tiigris, pedibus fulvis, alis subcinereis ad costam fuhis fusco variis. Black, clothed with golden hairs: eyes pitchy: feelers dark red; first and second joints black beneath : chest hairy here and there : scutcheon pitchy : abdomen adorned with seven patches of golden hairs, three on each side and one at the tip ; first segment linear ; all the following together spindle-shaped : legs lawny : wings slightly gray ; dark taiimy and partly brownbeneath the fore border; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base ; cross-veins clouded with dark brown ; poisers yellow. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. New Smith Wales. Genus PARAGUS, Latr. Pabaous maculaxus, Fem. yEnco-viridis, capite cupreo supra nigra, abdomine maeulis duabusflavis duabusque fulvis ornato, antennis fulvis apice nigris, pedibus fulms, tibiis nigra cinctis, alis limpidis. Brassy green : head bright coppery, mostly black on the crown where the hoary bloom incloses two round spols ; hind part adorned with a whitish covering, clothed with white hairs ; eyes pitchy : mouth tawny : feelers lawny ; tip of the third joint I)lack : abdomen Hat, much longer than the chest, widening from the base till near the tip, adoriud with two yellow and two lawny spots, the yellow spots on the fore border of the second seg- ment larger than the tawny spots, which are indistinct and join the fore border of the third segment : legs tawny ; a black band on each hind-shank near the tip : wings colourless ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base ; brands pale brown ; poiscrs tawny. Length of the body 2J lines ; of the wings 4 lines. Brazil. Genus ASCIA, Megerle. ASOIA STRIATA, MaS. Nigra, capite thoracis lateribtts pectore scutelligue margine postico Jlavis, abdomine vittis fulvis fasciisque flavis ornato, antennis fulvis, pedibus Jlavis posticis fusco vittatis, alis limpidis apicefuscis. Head bright yellow, black about the eyelets ; a small black shining spot above the base of the feelers: eyes pale red : month i)ale tawny : feelers tawny : chest black ; its sides and the breast mostly yellow ; hind border of the scutcheon yellow: abdomen black, clothed with black hairs; /»•«< seg- ment with one tawny stripe ; each following segment with three taumy stripes ; a short very oblique yellow band on each side of every segment : legs yellow ; hind-thighs, hind-shanks and hind-feet adorned with two brown stripes, and the like are very slightly indicated on the middle legs : wings colourless with brown tips; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base; brands black ; poisers lawny. Length of the body 2 J lines ; of the wings i\ lines. Brazil. Genus BACCHA, Fabricius. Baccha odlonga, Fem. Flava, thorace vittis tribus ceneis ornato, abdomine fulvo segmentorum marginibus posticis apiceque piceis, antennis fulvis, pedibus Jlavis, tarsis fulvis, femoribus libiisqve posticis fusco cinctis, alls limpidis. Structure of B. tabida. Yellow : head black about the eyelets ; a little hlack spot above the base of the feelers, which are tawny : eyes bright red : cbest somewhat tawny about the base of the wings, adorned ivilh three 2 G ■J!J5 INSECTA SAUNlUOtSIANA. broad copperi/ slripes which occupy most of the disk : abdotnen tawny, yel- lowish on each side beyond the middle, pitchy towards the tip ; hind borders of the segments pitchy ; feet tawny ; each hind-thigh and hind-shank adorned with a brotcn band, and the like is very slightly indicated on the middle legs: wings colourless ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base. Length of the body 4i lines ; of the wings 9 lines. Brazil. Bacoha crassa, Mas. Nigra, capite pectoreque chalybeis, scuiello thoracisque lateribus aneis, an- tennis pedibusque piceis, tarsis futvo-cinctis, alis cinereis basi el ad costam fuscis. Black : head steel blue, clothed above with black hairs, covered in front with white down : eyes red : mouth tawny : feelers pitchy : chest very stout ; • scutcheon and sides of the chest brassy, the latter clothed with tawny hairs : breast steel-blue : abdomen much compressed at the base, widening thence to the tip, about twice the length of the chest but not half its breadth in the widest part: legs pitchy; trochanters and knees tawny; second and third joints of the feet tawny, which colour is palest iu the hind-feel ; claws black ; foot-cushions tawny : wings dark gray, brownish at the base and be- neath the fore border ; wing-ribs and veins black ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. Brazil. Baccha tenuis, Fem. Cyanea, capite anticojlavo, abdomine cyaneo apice purpurea fasciis qua- txtor futvis ornato, antennis pedibusque fulvis, femoribus tibiisgue posticis fusco-cinctis, alis limpidis. Head bright blue above, pale yellow in front and beneath ; a little black spot above the base of the feelers : eyes red : mouth and feelers tawny : chest and breast metallic-blue ; sides yellow ; a broad coppery band between the wings : abdomen black, shining, about thrice the lengtli of the chest, adorned with four tatvny bands, linear and very slender for two-thirds of the length, purple and spindle-shaped from thence to the tip: legs pale taumy ; hind-thighs and hind-shanks adorned with pale brown bands ; hind-feet dark tawny , brownish tmvards the base ; wings colourless ; wiiig-ribs tawny ; veins DIPTKltA. '^23 black, tawny at the base ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 2} lines ; of the wings 4j lines. Brazil. Baccha. macdlata, Mas. jEnea, capite cyaneo, ahdomine cupreo segmentorum marginibus anticis fulvis, antennis pedibmque futvis, femoribus libiisque poslicis piceo cinctis, tarsis posticU piceis, alts fulvis fusco variis. Structure of B. tabida. Head metalHc-bbie : eyes bright red : feelers tawny: chest brassy; hind part bluish on each side : abdomen coppery ; fore borders of the segments taiimy : legs tawny; a pitchy band on each hind- thigh and hind-shan]e ; hind-feet pitchy : wings tawny ; two brown marks on the fore border ; cross-veins clouded with brown ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. East Indies. AMATHIA, n. g. Bacch<2 affinis ; femora subtus spinulosa : alffi vena submarginali undata. Allied to Baccha ; thighs armfed beneath with little spines ; submar- ginal vein and the two cross-veins inclosing the submarginal and first pos- teripr areolet very much waved. Amaihia COSTAI.IS, Mas. Flava, thoracis disco abdomineque nigris, hvjns fasciis futvis, antennis fulvis, pedibus flavis, femoribus apice tarsisque fulvis, pedibus poslicis fuscis, atis limpidis ad coslam furcato-fuscis. Head yellow ; a forked pitchy spot above the base of the feelers ; ano- ther pitchy spot in front of the feelers : eyes red : feelers dark tawny : chest and breast yellow : disk of the chest black : abdomen black with tawny bands : legs yellow ; tips of the four anterior thighs tawny ; hind-thighs and hind-shanks brown ; feet tawny ; hind-feet brown towards the lips : wings colourless ; a brown stripe along the fore border sending forth a very 224 INSECTA SAUNDKliSIANA. short band before the middle of its course ; wingf-vibs and veins black ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. Brazil. Genus EUMERUS, Meigen. EUMEBUS ALBIFRONS, MaS. Niffro-ci/aneus, setitelli margine posiico fulvo, ahdomine fasciis tribm ar- cuatis canis omato, antennis tarsisque fulvis, alis snblimpidis cinereo variis. Bluish black : head adorned with a white covering and clothed with white hairs : eyes black ; facets large in the fore part : feelers pitchy with a hoary bloom ; sixth joint tawny at the base : chest and breast thinly clothed with tawny hairs ; hind border of the scutcheon tawny : abdomen obconical, narrower and a little longer than the chest, adorned with three very angular hoary bands: legs clothed with hoaiy hairs ; fore-shanks co- vered with a whitish bloom; fore-feel and middle-feet tawny; hind-feet much widened towards the base, tawny beneath : wings nearly colourless ; disks of the areolets beneath the fore border streaked with gray ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base ; poisers yellow. Length of the body 3\ lines ; of the wings 5i lines. East Indies. EuMERus ABOENTEUS, Fem. ^neus, scutelli margine postico fulvo, abdomine nigra maculis duahus rufis argenteo micantibus omato, antennis nigris, articulis \o el 2o piceis apice ferrugineis, pedibus ferrugineis, femoribus tenets, alis cinereis ad costam subfuscii. Brassy .- head coppery, very thickly clothed with white hairs : crown clothed with brownish hairs : eyes red, clothed with short white hairs : feelers black ; first and second joints pitchy with ferruginous tips : chest clothed with tawny or pale brown hairs ; hind border of the scutcheon tawny : breast clothed wiih hoary hairs: abdomen black, slightly obconical, a little longer than the chest, adorned on each side luith two very large red spots which are covered with bright silvery lustre, clothed with tawny hairs on each side of the base and at the tip which is brassy : legs ferruginous. DIPTERA. 225 clothed with tawny hairs ; thighs brassy; tips of the feet pitchy; claws tawny with black tips ; foot-cushions tawny ; hind-feet widened, somewhat pitchy towards the base : wings gray, slightly brown beneath the fore border ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins blaclt, tawny at the base ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 7 lines. Cape. EUMERUS PKIVEENUS, MaS. /^neus, capitc scutello thoracis lateribus pectorisque fasciis duabus Jlavis, thorace subvittalo, abdomine cyaneo-nigro vitta interrupta fulva maculisque fuhis et ferrugineis ornalo, antennisfulvis,pedib%is Jlavis, femoribus posticis apice nigris, iibiis poslicis fusco bifasciatis, tarsis posticis piceis, alis liinpidis. Head bright pale yelloio ; hind part and underside blade, tinged with hoary, clothed with white hairs : eyes bright red, coppery above, where the facets are larger than those elsewhere : feelers bright tawny ; sixth joint black, tawny at the base: chest and breast brassy ; chest indistincth/ striped, its sides and the scutcheon yelloiv ; a short yellow band on each side of the breast : abdomen bluish black, yelloiv at the base, slightly spindle-shaped, much longer but not broader than the chest, adorned with an interrupted tawny stripe and on each side ivith three tawny triangular spots ; three in- distinct ferruginous murks on each of the third and fourth segments : legs yel- low; hind-thighs stout, black towards the tips; hind-shanks curved; with two indistinct brown bands ; hind-feet pitchy : wings colourless; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base ; poisers yellow. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 6 lines. United States. EuMERUS TBANSIENS, Fcm. Niger, thoracis lateribus scutello pectore abdomineque ferrugineis, antcnnis nigris, pedibus ferrugineis, femoribus nigris, tibiis nigra cinctis, alis cinereis ftisco nebulosis. Black: head thickly clothed in front with tawny hairs: eyes red: chest and breast clothed with tawny hairs : scutcheon, breast, and sides of the chest ferruginous ; abdomen ferruginous, obconical, much longer than 326 INSKCTA SAUNUERSIANA. the chest, shining beneath, pitchy here and there and clothed with short tawny hairs above : legs pale ferruginous, clotlied with tawny hairs ; tro- chanters and thighs mostly black ; a black band on each shank : wings gray ; veins clouded with brown; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black ; the stump of a slightly curved vein proceeding from the upper side of the second submar- ginal areolet ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. New South Wales. Genus XYLOTA, Meigen. Xylota ;eie Iribus pallidioribus, segmentorum marginibus posticis ventreque plumbeis, antennis nigris apice piceis, pedibus nigris, tibiis fulvis, alis suhcinenis basi et ad costam sub- fulvis. Black : head covered with pale buff down, clothed with pale buff hairs and on the crown with black hairs ; face with the usual bare shining stripe which is raised along the whole length until near the feelers ; eyes black: mouth black ; lips of the palpi and of the maxillie tawny: feelers black; third joint pitchy; sixth tawny with a black tip: chest brown, clothed with tawny hairs, adorned with two hoary stripes which do not ex- tend beyond half the length from the fore border : abdomen obconical, a little longer and broader than the chest, adorned with three slender pale buff interrupted bands, and on each side, near the base with a large somewhat triangular tawny spot whose inner border is concave ; the first and the second bands form curves on each side, the third is near the tip and very small ; hind borders of segments and whole of underside lead-colour, shining : legs black, clothed with short black hairs ; shanks tawny, clothed with tawny hairs towards the base ; shanks and feet covered beneath with tawny down : wings pale gray, slightly tawny at the base and along the fore border ; brand.s 248 INSECTA SAUNDEBSIANA pale brown ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, ferruginous at the base and along the fore border ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 6i lines ; of the wings 12 lines. Canada. ElilSTALIS EXTERUS, Fein. Niger, abdomine viita basali maculisqtie duabus fuivis ornato, pedibus niffris, alls limpidis basi nigris fascia brei'i nigro-fusca ornalis. Black : head tinged with gray, clolhed with short tawny hairs and on the erown with short black hairs: eyes red; chest thickly clothed with tawny hairs, which are longest and brightest on each side: breast with a hoary tinge, clothed with pale hairs: nirfomen obconical, not longer than the chest, clothed with tawny hairs, adorned at the base with a broad lawny band which is parll;/ interrupted by a small angular ferruginous spot ; a large triangular tatvny spot on each side of the fore borders of the second and third segments : legs black, fringed with short black hairs : wings colourless, blackish at the base ; a large irregular blackish brown spot bordered by paler brown extends half across the wing from the middle of the fore border ; cross- vein of the first posterior areolet clouded with brown ; wing-ribs and veins black ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. Easl Indies. Ekistahs multikabius. Fern. Niger, thorace trivittato, scutello fulvo, abdomine ferrugineo-fulvo fasciis duabus anticis el segmenlorum 3t 4i-gue discis nigris, antennis piceis basi nigris, pedibus fuivis nigra variis, femoribus posticis crassis, alis limpidis. Black : head mostly covered with pale bufl" down, clothed with whitish hairs ; crown clothed with short black hairs ; eyes adorned with alternate red and black bands: third joint of the feelers pitchy, nearly elliptical, longer than the first and second joints ; sixth tawny, black towards the tip : chest adorned with a pale grayish buff' covering which is interrupted by three black stripes ; scutcheon lawny : abdomen tawny with a ferruginous tinge, obconical, not longer than the chest, black at the base ; a black band IMPTEBA. 249 near the hind bnrder of the second segment; disks of the third and fourth segments black : legs clothed with short tawny hairs ; fore-thighs and middle-thighs black with tawny tips; hind-thighs thick, tawm/ with black lips i fore-shanks tantnt/ with black tips ; middle-shanks tawny ; hind-shanks black, curved, with a tawny band; fore-feet and hind-feet pitchy; middle- feet tawny with black tips ; claws tawny with black tips : foot-cushions tawny: wings colourless; wing-ribs and veins tawny ; veins black towards the tips ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 7i lines. East Indies. Eristalis semicirculus, Mas. Niger, abdominis maculis guatuor et segmentorum marginibus posticis fulvis, anlennis piceis, pedibus nigris, tibiis tarsisque anterioribus basi fulvis,fetnoribus posticis crassis, alis limpidis. Black: head adorned with a hoary covering: eyes bronzed : feelers pitchy : chest adorned mth two pale tawny bands, the first straight, the other concave : breast with a hoaiT tinge : abdomen obconical, a little shorter than the chest, adorned with four tawny spots, of which the first pair are much larger than the second pair ; hind borders of the segments tawny : shanks and feet towards the base andlcnces tawny ; hind-legs black with thick thighs, ferruginous knees and curved shanks : wings colourless ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 6 lines. Honduras. Eri-stalis copioscs, Mas. Niger, capite fulw supra nigra, thorace cyaneo trivillnto, abdominis vitta lata ventreque ftdvis, apice cyaneo, circulo ante apicali viridi-ceneo, antennis ferrugineis, pedibus fulvis, fcmoribus posticis apice nigris, tibiis posticis piceis fulvo cinctis, alis sublimpidis. Head black, bright tawny and clothed witli tawny hairs in front : eyes bright red ; facets above larger than those elsewhere : feelers ferruginous ; sixth joint black : chest bright blue, adorned with three velvety black bands, middle one broad and straight; side pair interrupted, nearly spindle- 260 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. shaped : abdotnen obconical, much shorter than the chest, tvilh a broad tawny stripe from the base till near the tip which is blue, and has near it an almost annular brassy green mark ; underside tawny : legs tawny ; feet black, tawny at the base; hind-thighs rather stout, with black tips; hind- shanks slightly curved, pitchy with a broad middle tawny band : wingt almost colourless : wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black, pitchy at the base and dlong the fore borders. Length of the body 4i lines ; of the wings 10 lines. EnisTALis EPITOME, Fem. Fulvus, thoracis vittis quatuor peclorisgue disco nigris, abdomine nigra maculis 6 veiitreque fulvis, anten7iis pedibusque ferrugineis, tarsis fulvis apice nigris, alis limpidis. Head black, tawny in front, adorned with tawny down which is paler on the face ; a bare shining stripe on the face, convex in the middle ; crown clothed with black hairs; epistonia convex : mouth black: feelers ferruginous; sixth joint lawny, black towards the tip: chest and breast tawny, clothed with short tawny hairs ; chest adorned mlh four black stripes ; disk of the breast black ; scutcheon shining : abdomen black, ob- conical, a little shorter than the chest, adorned with three pairs of tawny tpots, first pair very large and forming a broad interrupted band near the base, second pair much smaller, third still smaller ; underside tawny and shining, and this hue extends slightly on each side above towards the se- cond and third pairs of spots: legs ferruginous ; feet mostly tawny, their tips black ; claws and foot-cushions tawny ; tips of the claws black ; hind- thighs slender ; hind-shanks slightly curved, rather broad : wings colour- less ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny towards the base ; poisers tawny. Length of the body b\ lines ; of the wings 1 1 lines. New Holland. 961 Genus VOLUCELLA, Geoffroy. VOLUCELLA EVECTA, Fcill. Nigra, fulno-hirta, abdomine fasciis dmibus nigro-hirtis omato, antennis piceis, pedibus nigris, tarsu ferrugineis, alts sublimpidis fusco nebu- losis fnsciaque brevi fusco ornalis. Very like V. plumata, but is partly clothed with different-coloured hairs, and the wings are more clouded. Black : head thickly clothed with tawny hairs on the crown, and having a few tawny hairs in front : eyes red : moulh pitchy : feelers pitchy ; third joint red towards the tip ; sixth joint tawny, black towards the tip, its hairs black, tawny at the base: chest thickly clothed with tawny hairs : abdomen clothed with black hairs, adorned with two bands of tawny hairs which are thickest on the sides, one band at the base pater than the other which is near the tip : legs black, clothed with short black hairs ; knees ferruginous ; feet ferruginous, clothed with short ferruginous haii-s, pitchy at the tips ; claws black, ferruginous at the base ; foot-cushions ferruginous : wings nearly colourless, veins clouded with pale brown; a blackish brown spot on the fore border joining a larger brown spot which extends half across the wing; wing-ribs and veins tawny; veins black towards the tips ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. United States. VoLUOELLA LINEARIS, Fem. Ferruginea, capite fulvo, abdomine nigra basi fulvo, antennis pedihusque fulvis, alis subfulvis ad costam ftiscis fulvo variis. Head bright tawny, clothed with short tawny hairs ; a black stripe on each side of the peristoma : eyes black : mouth pitchy : feelers tawny ; sixth joint darker towards the tip : chest and breast ferruginous, clothed with tawny hairs : abdomen oval, black, clothed with very short black hairs, tawny at the base, much longer than the chest : legs tawny ; lips of the shanks and of the joints of the feet armed with little black spines : wings with a slight taivny tinge ; a dark brown stripe which is tawny here and there extends along the fore border and occupies near half the breadth of the wing ; wing- ribs and veins tawny ; veins darker in the brown parts ; poisers tawny with yellow knobs. Length of the body 8 lines; of the wings 16 lines. 'ityi rXSRCTA SAUNDKRSIANA. Genus TEMNOCERA, St. Farg. et Serv. Temnoceba fulvolocens, Mas. Fulm, capitis thoracisque discis purpureis,abdomine supra piceo, antentiis pedibitsque fulvis, tibiis posticis tanisque piceis, alis subcinereis basi eosta venarumque marginibus fulvis. Allied to T. pallida. Tawny, clothed with short hlack hairs : head clothed with tawny hairs ; crown purplish : eyes red, thickly clothed with short hlack hairs ; facets along the hind border smaller than those else- where : feelers tawny : disk of the chest purple or greenish tawny, its sides beset with black bristles : abdomen obconical, a little shorter and broader than the chest, pitchy above, pale tawny at the base : legs lawny ; feet pitchy, tawny at the base ; claws black, tawny at the base ; hind-shanks mostly pitchy : wings slightly tinged with gray, tattmy at the base and be- neath the fore border and along the veitis in the dish ; wing-ribs and veins tawny ; veins black towards the tips ; poisers yellow. Length of the body 3j — 4 lines ; of the wings 9—10 lines. Brazil. Temnocera metallorum, Mas. Ferruginea, supra cupreo viridi et purpurea ornala, antennis fulvis, pedibus piceis, femoribus ferrugineis, alis cinereis basi casta nenorumque marginibus fuscis. Ferruginous : thickly clothed with short black hairs : head thickly clothed with short tawny hairs : eyes black, thickly clothed with short black hairs ; facets larger on the crown than elsewhere ; mouth tawny ; feelers tawny; sixth joint darker towards the tip: chest thickly clothed with short black hairs ; dish coppery varied with metallic green and purple ; scutcheon purple, beset like the sides of the chest with black bristles: ai- domen obconical, broader and a little shorter than the chest, coppery, tinged with green, and purple ,■ tip and underside partly ferruginous : legs pitchy, clothed with short black hairs ; hips and thighs ferruginow, ; claws black, tawny at the base ; foot-cushions pale tawny ; wings gray, brown at the base beneath the fore border and along the borders of the veins-; wing- ribs pitchy ; veins black, ferruginous at the base and along the fore border ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 5 J lines ; of the wings 12 lines. Para. INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA, &c Fam. CONOPSARI^, Latr. Genus CONOPS, Unn. Edbope. 1. vesicularis, L. 2. elegans, Mg. 3. flaripes, L. 4. 4-fasciata, Dg. 5. aciileata, L. 6. flavifrons, Mg. 7. macrocephala, L. 8. nijjra, Dg. 9. rufipes, Fb. 10. Pallasii, Mg. 11. chrysorrhca, Meg. 12. vittata, F6. 13. lacera, Meg. 14. pusilla, Mg. 15. variegata, Mg. 16. cerisBformis, Meg. 17. dorsalis, Afe^. 18. strigata, Meg. 19. signata, Meg. 20. annulipes, Jlfei/. 21. silacea, Wd. 22. biciucta, i»/^. 23. tcrminata, Carcel. Species described. 24. meridionalis, Mq. 26. pumila, Mq. 26. raaculata, Carcel. 27. trifasciata, Mg. 28. feiTuginea, il/y. 29. insignis, Loew. 30. erostrata, Rdn. 31. diademata, /Wn. North America. 32. excisa, Wd. 33. sagitlaria, Say. 34. inarginata, Say. 35. costata, Fb. 36. fulvipeunis. Mq. 37. picta, /"i. 38. brachyrbynchiis, Mq. 39. flaviceps, My. 40. ffithiops, Wlk. South America. 41. analis, Fb. 42. sericea, Enc. Mith 43. lugubris, Mq. 44. rufipennis, Mq. 45. ephippium, Mq. 46. bipunctata, ilfy. 47. Cayennensis, Mq. 48. aurifrons, W7*. Africa. 49. antiqua, Wd. 50. Capensis, Wd. 51. atra, iVg. 52. Natalensis, Mq. Asia. 53. tiylhrocephala, Fh. 54. gigas, ilfy. 55. testacea, Mq. Australia. 66. aurosa, Nunn. 57. aptata, Wlk. 68. aiqiiata, Wlk. 59. ingloiior, Wlk. % L 254 INSECTA SAUNDEUSIANA. Habitat ? 62. lugubris, Mq. 65. inauia, Wlk. 60. sugeus, Wd. 63. cwida, Wile. 66. excerpta, Wlk. 61. se\\aXa.,Mq. 64. inhabilis, Wtt. Kondani has divided Coiiops into the following genera :— 1. Brachiglossura, iJeii>. 6. albifacies, Desv. Europe. 7. tsniata, Pz. „ 8. obscuripennis, Z)eiii. „ 9. brachyptera, Pz. „ 10. Ancora, Meg. „ 11. diluta, ilf^;. „ 12. tieniata, Wd. Cape. VI. Ai.oPHonA, Desv. 1. subcoleoptrata, Linn. Eur. 2. hemiptera, Fb. „ 3. pilosa, Z)?su. „ 4. ferruginca, Z)e.«w. „ VII. Elomya, Desv. 1. nebulosa, Pz. „ 2. nubcculosa, itf^. „ 3. umbripennis, Mg. „ 4. nervosa, il/jr. „ 259 VII. Elomya, Desv. VIII. Hvalomya, Desv. 6. muscaria, Ftn. Europe. 1. atropurpurea, .Wy. Europe. 6. nubilipennis, Meg. „ 2. violacea, Mg. „ 7. aurulans, Meg. „ 3. hamata, Mg. „ 8. bucephala, Meg. „ 4. obesa, Fb. „ 9. claripennis, Desv. „ 5. albipenois, Mg. „ 10. aurulans, Desv. „ 6. nebulosa, Desv. „ 11. nigra, Desv. „ 7. carbonaria, £)eiu. „ 12. abdominalis, Desv. „ 8. cinerea, Fb. 13. punctata, Mg. „ 9. pusilla, f/jr^. „ 14. lateralis, Meg. „ 10. byalipennis, Fin. „ 15. cana, Ilgg. „ 11. scmicinerea, A/^. „ 16. ornat'i, Mg. „ 12. nana, Ftii. „ 17. argeutifrons, ffW. S. Afr. 13. jiygmxH, Fin. „ 14. Freyreisii, Wd. Brazil. Trichopoda decisa. Fulva; caput supra nigrum, antice et suhius flavum; thoracis discus nigra trivitlatus ; femora tibiaque apice tarsique nigra ; ala; subci- nerete, ad costam fulva, apice fuscie. Tawny : head pale yellow in front and beneath ; crovm black, excepting the sides : disk of the chest with three black stripes : feet and tips of the thighs and of the shanks black : wings slightly gray, tawny along tlie fore border till near the tips, where they are dark brown : winglets pale tawny. Length of the body 6i lines ; of the wings 9i lines. Amazon Biver. .Genus PHASIA, Latr. Phasia iNDiCA, Fem. Testacea ; thoracis discus fuscus ; alie subcinerea: fasciis tribus albidis. Testaceous : feelers luteous ; sixth joint black : disk of the chest brown : sides and tip of the abdomen beset with black bristles : legs testa- ceous ; wings pale gray, with three whitish bands, the first at the base ; second very broad, before the middle ; third narrow, beyond the middle ; 260 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. veins brownish, yellow iu the pale parts : alula: yellowish. Length of the body 2J lines ; of the wings 64 lines. Madras or Calcutta. Genus HYALOMYA, Desv. HVALOMVA OOCIDENTJS, MaS. Atra, caput argentalum ; abdomen canum bast vittaque fasciisque duabus nigris ; alee limpidce. Deep black : head with a silvery covering ; frontalia deep black, tri- angular : abdomen hoary, black towards the base and with a black stripe and two black bands ; legs black : wings colourless ; veins black, yellow towards the base and along the fore border : alulte white : poisers yellow. Length of the body 2i lines ; of the wings 5 lines. United States. Sub-fam. OcYPTEKATiE, Desv. Species described. I. LopiiosiA, Mg. IV. Webeuia, Desv. 1. fasciata, Mg. Europe. 1. appendiculata, Desv. Europe. II. DuvAUCELiA, Desv. V. IcELiA, Desv. Curlucera, Mq. 1. flavesccns, Desv. Brazil. I. bicincta, /7«v. E. Indies. 2. Brasilieusis, y>fsv. „ III. Phania, Mg. VI. Hemyda, Desv. 1. obscuripennis, 3/(17. Europe. 1. aurata, Dmw. N. America. 2. vittata, Mg. 3. lateritia, Mg. 4. thoracica, Mg. 6. curvicauda, i^/n. 6. flavipalpis, Mq. VII. Hermya, Desv. 1. Afra, Desv. Brazil. 2. Hottentota, Desv. Cape. 201 VIII. Ervia, Desv. 1. tiiquetra, Oliv. N. Amej'ica. IX. OoYi'TERA, Latr. 1. bievicomis, Locw. 2. bicolor, Oliv. Europe. 3. excisa, Loew. Asia Minor. 4. carinata, Loeiv. Europe. 6. crassa, Loew. „ 6. costalis, Zo««. „ 7. scapularis, Loew. „ 8. scalaris, Loew. „ 9. gracilis, ioeiy. „ 10. rufifrons, Loew. „ 11. pilipes, Loew. „ 12. brassicaria, Fb. „ 13. intermedia, 3f(7. „ 14. setulosa, Loew. „ 15. coarctata, Loeiv. „ 16. auriceps, Mg. „ 17. nigrita, Mg. „ 18. rufipes, Mg. „ 19. fulva, Desv. „ 20. similis, Desv. Brazil. 21. pictipcnnis, Mq. Senegal. IX. OCTPTEnA, Latr. 22. (lorsalis, Wd. Brazil. 23. bicolor, Wd. E. Indies. 24. fuscipennis, Wd. Java. 25. marginalis, Wd. Cape. 26. atrata, i^A. Guinea. 27. bimacula, Wlk. Van Die- men's Land. 28. Doladas, Wlh. Jamaica. 29. Epjtus, Wlk. Georgia. 30. Dosiades, Wlk. Nova Scotia. 31. picta, Wlk. Sierra Leone. 32. Euchenor, ry/A. N.Amer. X. Parthenia, Desv. 1. cyliudrica, Fb. Europe. 2. interrupta, Mg. „ 3. Bosoii, Desv. „ 4. Carolinse, Desv. N. Amcr. XI. Clairvillia, Desv. I . pusilla, Mg. Europe. XII. BESSEniA, Desv. 1. reflexa, £>«•«". Europe. Genus PHANIA, Mg. Phania indica. Nigra ; caput argenteum ; antenna: sublus femiginett ; thorax canus, fusco quadrivittatus ; abdomen cano bivittatum ; tibice fertugineic ; aleealbidum%albo-micans, nigro vit- tatum ; pedes fulvi, tarsis nigris ; alte subcinerea, ad venasfuscie. Fam. Faunidm ; Gen. Phryno P Black : head tawny, with a silvery white covering, clothed behind and beneath with pale yellow hairs ; crown black with a pale gilded covering; frontalia reddish-pitchy, widening towards the feelers ; frontalia without bristles : epistoma slightly promi- 292 INSECTA SAUNDEHSIANA. nent : eyes hairy: mouth pitchy; palpi tawny: feelers black; second joint ferruginous ; third linear, rather deep, almost truncated at the tip, not reaching the epistoma, near thrice the length of the second ; orifice in the middle of the length, a little nearer the lower border than the upper: chest ivitk a cinereous or slighlhj gilded covering, lavmy on each side, with four slender black stripes ; scutcheon tawny : abdomen tawny with white reflectiom, darker at the tip, with a black dorsal stripe which is widened at the base and on the hind border of each segment ; a black band along the hind border of the third segment : legs tawny; feel black; claws fringed, tawny towards the base ; onychia luteous : wings pale gray, tinged with brown along the borders of the veins ; veins black, tawny at the base ; prse- brachial vein forming a slightly obtuse angle at its flexure, from whence it is almost straight with the exception of a very slight inward curve at one- third of its length ; lower cross-vein with two curves, the lower inward, deeper than the other which is outward : alulae whitish, with pale yellow borders. Length of the body 4i lines ; of the wings 10 lines. Cape. Tachina adusta. Cervina ; caput argenteum ; thorax fusco quinquevittatus ; abdomen ful- vum, macutis Irigonis nigris vittatum, flavo fasciatum ; antenna: et pedes nigra ; alee cinerece, hanfulvce, apud venasfusca. Fam. Faunida ; Gen. Phryno. Mas. Pule fawn-colour : head with a silvery while covering, clothed beneath and behind with pale yellow hairs ; frontalia pitchy, linear; epistoma hardly prominent; facialia beset with bristles along the face and along the peristoma : eyes bare : mouth pitchy ; palpi tawny : feelers black ; third joint slender, reaching the epistoma, full six times the length of the second ; sixth joint stout, hardly longer than the third joint : chest with five interrupted brown stripes : abdomen oh- conical, lawny, a little longer than the chest ; a triangular black spot on the hind border of each segment ; third and fourth segments yellow with black hind borders : legs black : wings gray, laumy at the base, brown be- neath the fore border and along the borders of the veins ; veins black, tawny towards the base ; preebrachial vein forming a slightly obtuse angle at its flexure, near which it is indistinctly inclined inward, almost straight from thence to the tip which is very near the tip of the cubital vein ; lower DIPTEHA. 293 cross-Tein with the two usual curves, tlie inward one distinct, the outward one scarcely perceptible : alula; yellowish, with lawny borders ; halteres tawny. Length ol the body 6 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. East Indies. Tacuina alta. Nigra, crassa ; caput album ; thorax cinereus ; sctiteltum rufum, bast nigrum ; abdomen cinereo-micans ; antenme et pedes nigra ; ala; sub- cinerece. Fain. Faunida ; Gen. Pales. Black, rather thick : head with a white covering; frontalia ferruginous; facialia without bristles except at the base; epistoma not prominent; lateralia pale tawny: eyes bare: palpi tatuny : feelers black ; third joint linear, rounded at the tip, reaching the epistoma, about six times the length of the second ; sixth slender, very much longer than the third : chest with a cinereous covering ; scutcheon red, black at the base : abdomen obconical, a little longer than the chest, with cinereous reflections : wings slightly gray ; veins black, tawny at the base ; praebrachial vein forming a slightly obtuse angle at its flexure, beyond which it is slightly curved inward ; lower oross-vein with a very slight outward curve in the middle : alula; wliitish. Length of the body 4i lines ; of the wings 8 lines. Madras or Calcutta P Tacbina picba, Mas. Nigra; caput album ; thorax albo vittatus ; scutcllum fen-ngineum ; ab- domen albo-micans, latcribus firrugineum ; antenna nigra;, basi subtusquc ferruginem ; pedes nigri ; ala: subcinerea:, basi subfusca. Fam. Faunida ; Gen. Phryno. Black : head adorned with a white covering ; frontalia deep brown, linear ; intcrfrontalia dull black ; facialia beset wilh bristles at each end : eyes hairy : mouth pitchy ; palpi tawny, with a white covering towards their tips: feelers ferruginous ; third joint linear, rounded at the tip, black above, not reaching the epistoma, full twice the length of the second : chest striped with white ? scutcheon dark feiruginous : abdomen ferruginous on each side, with white reflections on the 2q 294 INSECTA SAUNDEESIANA. fore borders of the segments : legs black : ivinga slightly gray, brownish at the base ; veins black, feiruginous at the base ; priBbrachial vein fonning an obtuse angle at its flexure, very slightly curved inward from thence to its tip ; lower cross-vein with two slight curves, the lower inward, deeper than the other which is outward: alulee while: halteres tawny. Length of the body 6J lines; of the wings 10 lines. Columbia. TaCHINA UMURII'KRA. Nigra, aurata ; thorax nigra quadrivittatus ; abdomen fulvum, nigra vittatum fasciatum et terminatum; antenna el pedes nigra; al frontalia dull black, broad, linear : second joint of the feelers red above at the tip : chest with five black stripes ; inner pair veiy slender : abdomen entirely cinereovs with hoary reflections ; tip red : legs black ; thighs with a hoary tinge : wings slightly gray ; veins black, tawny at the base ; pra;- brachial vein fuiming a hardly acute angle at its flexure, much bent inward near this, almost straight from thence to the tip ; lower cross-vein with the two curves which are very indistinct: alulae whitish, with pale yellow borders. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 9 lines. Sarcophaga advena, Mas et Fem. Nigra, cano-tomentosa ; caput auratum, facie alba ; thorax nigro-fusco quinquevittatus ; abdomen cano varium, apice pallida ; ala sv])- cinerea. Black, with a hoary covering : head with a gilded covering ; face white ; frontalia deep black, linear : palpi and feelers black : chest with five broad brownish-black stripes : abdomen inlaid with hoary reflections, tip yellow in the vmle, tawny in the female : legs black : wings slightly gray ; veins black ; prsebrachial vein forming a very slightly obtuse angle at its flexure, bent inward near this, straight from thence to the tip; lower cross-vein with two curves which are very indistinct : aluljB whitish. Length of the body 2J lines ; of the wings 6i lines. Brazil. Sarcofhaoa incerta. Nigra ; caput late auratum, sublus canum ; thorax albo sexviltatus ; abdomen albo nigroque tessellatum, apice rufo ; alte suhcinerea, basi obtcuriores. Black : head bright gold-colour, hoary and clothed ivith white hairs beneath ami behind; frontalia deep black, widening towards the feelers ; 335 foves whitish : month, palpi and feelers black ; third joint of the feelers pitchy : chest with six white stripes, the outermost pair irregular, connected in front with the next pair: abdomen tessellated with white and black ; tip deep red : legs black ; thighs with a white covering beneath : wings pale gray, darker at the base; veins black: alula; whitish: halleres tawny. Length of the body 4^ lines ; of the wings i) lines. Jamaica. SaROOPHAGA AU1UFINI8. Nigra; caput late auraium, facie alba; thorax cano quadrivittatus, lateribm albo vittatis ; abdotnen e maculis albis quadrivittatum, apice rufo-aurato; tibice picew ; alie subcinereie. Black ; head bright gold-colour, clolhed with black hairs ; frontalia dull black, hardly widening towards the feelers ; face white : mouth, palpi, and feelers black : mouth clothed with short yellow hairs: chest mthfour hoary dorsal stripes and with a short white stripe on. each side : breast hoary : abdomen tessellated with four rows of white spots ; tip red with a bright gold-colour covering : thighs with a hoary tinge ; shanks pitchy : wings slightly gray ; veins black : alulae while : halteres tawny, with pale yellow knobs. Length of the body 3i — i\ lines ; of the wings 7 — 9 lines. Bi-azil. Saroophaoa coonata. Nigro-cenea; caput l, veiiis testaceis fusco notutis. Described from injured specimens. Brown, stout. Proboscis long, stout, straight, testaceous, blackisli towards the base above and at the tip. Palpi testaceous, rather more than half the length of the proboscis. Antennas testaceous, with very slender blacki.sh bands, shorter than the antenna. Thorax striped ? Abdomen with tawny bands. Legs tawny, slout; tips of the femora, of the tibia; and of the joints of the tarsi brownish. Wings limpid ; veins testaceous, with some brownish marks. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 7 lines. New Holland. CuLEX CRUCIANS, Fcem. Fusca; proboscis fulva, apice fusca ; antenna nigra, basifulva ; pectus fvhmm ; abdomen fasciis albido-testaceis ; coxa et femora testacea; ala subcinerea, venis fuscis sitbciliatis basi testaceis ; halteres tes- tacei. Brown. Proboscis slender, straight, tawny, brown at the tip. An- tennie black, shorter than the proboscis, tawny at the base. Pectus tawny. Abdomen darker than the thorax, with a whitish testaceous band in front of each segment. Legs brown ,■ coxa; and femora testa- ceous. Wings grayish ; veins brown, slightly ciliated, testaceous at the base. Halteres testaceous. Length of the body 3J lines ; of the wings 6 lines. Van Dieman's Land. 433 Genus ANOPHELES, Meigen. AnoPHEI.es ANNULIPES, FoBin. Fusca, gracillima, cano tomentosa ; proboscis ex parte teslacea; palpi alhidi, fusco fasciati ; thorax subvittalus ; pedes hngissimi, gracil- limi, femoribus tibiisgue albido fasciatis, femoribus basi teslaceis, tarsis fascia alba, posticis longissimii ; ata subcinereie,venis fusds dense ciliatis albido fasciatis, casta nigricante maculis tribus albidis ; halteres albidi. Brown, very slender, with lioary tonientum. Proboscis partly testa- ceous, rather longer than the palpi. Palpi whitish, with brown bands, longer than the antenna;. Thorax indistinctly striped. Legs very long and slender; femora and libiee with numerous whitish bands; femora testaceous towards the base ; tarsi with a white band ; hind tarsi ex- tremely long. Wings slightly grayish ; veins brown, with whitish bauds, thickly ciliated ; costa blackish, with three oblong whitish spots. Hal- teres whitish. Length of the body 3 — 3^ lines; of the wings C— 7 lines. Van Dieman's Land. Fam. TIPULID^, Holiday. Genus TRICHOCERA, Meigeii. Trichocera ocellata, FoDm. Cinerea ; antenna nigra: ; abdomen piceo-nigrum, apice el sublus apicem versus fulvum , pedes fuhi, tarsis nigris ; alee limpida:, ocellis plurimis incompletis cinereis ; halteres testacei, apice fusci. Gray. Antennae black. Abdomen piceoiis-black, tawny at the tip and beneath towards the tip. Legs dull tawny ; tarsi black. Wings limpid, with very numerous gray marks, several of which form more or less perfect ringlets. Halteres testaceous, with brown knobs. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. East Indies. 434 INSECTA SAUNHERSTANA. Genus LIMNOBIA, Meigen. Uiv. E. Meig. Dipt. i. 125, pi. 6, f. 2. LiMNOUIA BASALIS, FcEin. Nigra, nitens ; alilosa ; rapul cinereum, subtus albidum alboque hirltim ; thorqx albido unifaseiatus et bivitlatus, lateribus pecloreqtie albidis ; abdo- men purpurascens, apice fulvum ; pedes cyaneo-nigri, albido pilosi ; alee subciiierete, I'enis Irunsversis fusco subnebulosis. Nearly allied to L. pxjrrhopyga. 458 INSECTA SAUNDEliSlANA. Black, hairy. Head cinereous above, excepting a black slripe, whitish and clothed with white hairs beneath. Face slightly convex. Mystax with black bristles. Third joint of the antenna; fusiform, rather broad. Thorax with a whitish band and two whitish stripes; sides and pectus whitish. Abdomen purplish ; fifth segment towards the tip and sixth tawny. Legs bluish black, thickly clothed with long whitish hairs. Wings slightly grayish; veins black; transverse veins very slightly clouded with brown. Halteres with ferruginous tips. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 9 lines. Amazon District. SYSTEMATIC INDEX. The system in Insecta Brilannica (Diptera) is here adopted. MYCETOPHILIDiE . . 415 CECIDOMYIDjE 421 Myoetophila 415 Cecidomtia . 421 xqualis 415 umbra . 421 Leia 416 fulva . 416 BIBIONID^ 422 BOLETINA 416 Plecia . 422 helvetica 416 bimaculata . 422 costalis 422 SCIOPHILA 417 (liversa 417 CHIRONOMID-E 422 par 417 Chironomus . 422 Mycetobia . 418 redeuns 422 divergens 418 vicavius 423 alternans 423 SCIARA . 418 applicatus . 424 pvimogenita 418 duplex 424 lurida . 418 iinitaus 425 antica . 419 opposilus 425 fasciata 419 conjuuctiis . 425 coguala 419 Indica 419 Tanvpus 426 reciproca coniusa 420 420 choreus 426 Platyuba 421 Pachylei'tus 426 vcnusta 421 fasciatus 426 i 460 SYSTEMATIC INDEX. CULICID^ . 427 Geranomvia . 440 COLEX . 427 pilipes . 440 conterrens . 427 sollicitans . 427 TiPULA . 441 peiturbans . 428 lerritans 428 simulata 441 excrucians . 429 platymera 441 terrens 429 clisjuncta 442 exagitans 430 dejecta 442 discrucians . 430 seticornis 443 perterrens . 431 filigera 443 flavicosta 431 tiucta . 444 coinmovens . 432 vicaria 444 crucians 432 delta . 445 viiidis . 445 Anopheles . 433 annulipes 433 PlILOOYNA 446 par 446 TIPULIDiE 433 simplex 446 TRICHOCEEil . 433 ocellata 433 Gtnoplistia . 447 elegans 447 LiMNOBIA 434 apicalis 447 basalis 434 fumipenuis . 448 turpis . 434 aterrima 434 Ctenophora . 448 prominens . lanuginipcs . 435 435 succedens . 448 irrorata 436 conslans 448 flaviceps 436 fumiplena . 449 bilerininata . 437 ignobilis chrysoptera . 437 438 RHYPHID^ 449 ^ calopus 439 Rhyphus 449 tenebrosa 439 elegans 440 brevis . 449 p INDEX. STRATIOMID^ . 77 XYLOPHAGID^ . 1 Odontomyia . 77 Xylophagus . 1 bislrio . 77 persequus I excocta . 78 ateri'ima 78 SnnuLA . 2 picea 78 exul 79 Inopus 2 solennis 79 despectus 2 Nemotelus . 80 Phvcus . 2 capensis 80 advena . 80 DiMASSUS 2 BlASTES . 80 terminalis divisus . 3 3 indicus . 81 Dialysis 4 Metabasis 81 dissimilis 4 rostratus 81 Cyclotelus . 4 Chrtsochlora 82 nigroflamma . 4 plana 82 pruiiiosus 5 tincta . 82 socius . 6 Istus 6 Sakoris . 83 debilis . 83 NONACKIS 7 transequa 7 Caoosis . 83 niger 84 TABANIDiE . 7 Ptilooeiia 84 Pangonia 7 continua 84 (Naceria) 7 463 INDEX. TABANIDiE Tadanus (Fidena) . 8 erythrotelus . rufofrater (Dicrania) 8 incisus . scutcllaiis (Melpia) . 8 obliquus linctus . (Scaptia) 8 ferrifei- . submacula (Panoonia) 9 detersus pei'plexus (Tacina) . 9 basirufus hirlitibia (Phara) . 9 adustus . simplex (Clan is) . 9 discifcr . pudens . (Osca) . 10 trifascia litigiosus (Philoliche) . 10 subsenex dorsivilta (Scione) . 10 ferruginosus terminatus (Plinxhina) 10 manifestus Noclis . (Scabphia) 10 pervasus diurous (Lil;ea) 11 albipalpus socialis . Dana 11 iDfans siccus . albiilus . Pyrrbus albimedius coniprehensa . exeuns . submacula 11 12 13 alboatra obesa 13 14 coucolor 14 tencns . pilaris . constans 18 Jacksonii 16 crassus . Lerda . 16 vagus . Adrel . 16 Tubiginosus dirisa . notabilis 17 18 umbrosus birtus . umbra . 19 puella . fusifortnis incompleta direcla . 19 20 20 sanguineus obconicus fervidus • consocius Tadanus . 21 pulinea . calidus . solstitialis 22 abstersus infusiis . 23 ligatus . mutalus 23 sequens . contermiDus . 24 Janus . 463 Tajianus ASILIDiE 84 planus . 61 DiOCTHIA 85 con nexus 62 Tasmanica 85 contactus hispid us variatus 63 63 64 tenuis . Horsleyi 86 86 honestus 64 fulviffer 65 Dasypogon 87 rufuniger 66 cailjo . 87 redactus 66 spectaiis 88 senior . 67 rapax 88 intereuns 450 Ittifer . 89 lemperaUis . . 4S1 casligans 89 bipartilus 451 exaniiuans 90 signifer . . 452 inseiens 91 occidens 91 DiOHELACERA . 68 festinans 92 fasciata inuUifasciu 68 68 videns . ti'istis insertus 93 93 94 priEtereuns 69 inclusus 94 vacillans 70 basalis . '. 95 sparsa . 71 imbutus 96 apifoimis 97 Scepsis . 71 liitnelas 97 nivalis . 71 pulverifcr 98 dilutus . 98 CURYSOPS 72 subconlractus . 455 torridus 456 excitans 73 partitus 456 provocans 73 stiinulans 73 Cyrtopooon . 99 Sinensis . 453 laphrides 99 H^MATOPOUTA . 463 DiSCOCEPUALA . 100 riificornis 463 alboalra 100 decora . . 454 fervida . Acanthomeha . 74 Cadasa . . 100 maguifica 74* rufitborax 100 Prolepsis . 101 ACROCERIDiE . . 202 fuiniflanima . . 101 PlxETAsrs . 202 tumeus . 203 ECARMOSTUS . 102 bimacula 102 Hen OPS . 203 basalis . 203 PSEDDOBUS 103 coslalis . 203 piceus . . 103 3 p 464 INDEX. MoniMNA 104 Erax mallophorides 104 Mygdon Potumon Laphria . 105 Stiinicon metalli . 106 con color purpurascens aspev invarius commiles Ndsa 105 eequalis . . 105 AslLUS .... Fovmio . 106 innmbratus . pcniiltimus Acurana . 107 discutiens 6-fasciata . 107 ultimus . TheriraachHS . ScANrON . 108 Congedus elicitus . compaclus . 108 Hyajjnis Heidonius Charades . 109 Maricus Gamaxus aurigena 109 Trachalus Lycoriiis Phellus . . 110 luctificus glaucus . . 110 obuinbratus . paterculus Mai,lophoba . . Ill |)ra;finiens villicalus xylucopides . 111 EnpatoT Tatius . iasciata 112 opposita 112 Ctesicles contraria ciliata . 113 114 opulentus Leonides Gavins . Tkupanea 114 univentris 114 Ommatius lelifera . 115 Jaculator sagiltil'era . 116 manus . captans . 117 caiidens 117 .Atomosia mitescens substituta 118 . 119 nigrooeenea . perfecta . 120 C0RMAN8IS contracta temeraria 120 121 halictides Calanus 122 rubiginis . 123 Lepi OOASTEU . perpusilla 123 multicincta . producta 124 perlonga . 125 Phf. lEUS . . . . poirecta . 126 tibialis . 465 LEPTID^ . 163 Anthrax Bhagio . . 163 cognata 177 alumnus . 163 separata 177 marginata 178 Leptis 164 manifesta 178 clara 179 atrata . . 164 lucida . 179 clara lucifera . 164 164 limpida . aperta . 179 180 SXNEOnES . 165 lucens . apparens 180 180 simplex . 165 delecta . 181 vitrea 181 BOMBYLIDJE. pellucida 182 translata 182 Thebeva . 157 alliolulva 182 sequa 167 antica . 183 sequeus . . 158 instituta 183 persequa 15« reducta . 184 nivaria . . 159 fumiflamma . 184 indica . . 159 ampla . 185 hebes . 160 procedens 185 inconspicua . . 160 gnata 186 varians . . 161 congrua 186 lateralis . 161 incisa 187 apicalis . . 162 reperta . 188 dejecta . 162 excisa . 188 innutata 455 referens . 189 coiistitula 189 ClIIROMYZA 162 cedens . 190 divisa 190 prisca . . 162 illata . 191 fulvicaput . 163 relata . 191 ajqua 192 Anthrax . . 166 succedens 192 purpuraria pulchia . . 169 . 169 antecedeiis australis 193 193 onusta . 170 seinilucida . 170 BOMBTLIUS 198 albida . 171 viduus . 199 auriplena 171 recedens 199 iusulata California; . 172 172 maculipes 200 200 201 carbonaria ignifera . 173 signifer . socius . 173 distinctus 201 recta 174 breviiosiris 202 restituta . 174 leucotelus 175 Intininbria . 175 Phthibia 194 ducens . . 176 hilaris . 194 obscura . 176 cumpressa 195 466 INDEX. Geron . 195 DOUCHOPDS . capensis 195 bifrons consors Philopota 196 contingens . bebcs . sobria . 195 ineptus tempcruta 196 niaculipes . pulcbei Paeisus 196 varius . paterculus 196 Me DETERUS . Tabuda . 197 exustus viiidiflos fulvipcs 197 DiAPHORUS . Chobistus 197 feraoratiis . bifions 198 PIPUNCULIDiE EMPIDvE . 204 Pip UNCULUS . Empis 204 lateralis fiinhria 204 SYRPHIDjE HiLAIlA . 204 MiCKODON litorea . 204 Trochilus . eeita . 204 conlirmata 205 Ubristf.3 flavitibia Hydos . 205 dimUliatus 205 EUMERUS intej^cr 205 albifions ruficollis 206 arjienteiis . Privernus DOLTCFIOPIDiE 206 transiens PsiLOPUS 207 EniSTALIS lepidiis 207 floridus elpctus 207 solennis cxemptiis 208 Oxycaniis . iiilklus 208 Everes exiiiiius 209 Chalepus venustiis 209 exterus exquisitus 210 multifarius . elegans 210 semiciiculiis suhlectiis 211 copiosus geiiimariiis 211 epitome 467 Mekodon 243 Syrphus GrtEcus 243 expositus 233 bicolor 243 Ambustus 234 muscteformis 244 Pediiis 234 Cothonea 235 XyioTA 226 (limensus 235 ajqualis 226 Corbis 236 Gurges 236 MiLESIA 227 coalescens . 237 inlerroRans 238 laconica 227 Baibula 238 Quintius 239 Deineches . 227 Fortius 239 nigro-fulva . 228 Pacilus 240 Vatia 240 VOLUCELLA . 251 Laenas 241 Stolo . 241 evecia 251 linearis 251 Epistrophe . 242 Temnocera . 252 conjungens 242 fiilvolucens . 252 metallorura . 252 Baccha . 221 oblonga 221 Chrysotoxum 218 crassa 222 antiquum . 218 tenuis 222 Indicum 218 maculata 223 stipatum 219 Gta'cum 21!) Amathia 223 costalis 223 Cebatophya . 220 variegata 220 AsciA 221 Pabaous 220 striata 221 macuktus . 220 CONOPID^ 263 Chuvsogaster 228 CONOPS . 253 recedeus 228 dimidiata 254 Sybphds 229 Pactyas minor . 255 255 felix . 229 Sphegiformi i . 256 dentatus 229 sericea 256 minidus 230 tricolor Cranapcs . 230 231 MUSCIDiE . 267 Orsua . 231 TACHINIDES 267 Opimius 232 Caldus 232 Gvmnosoma . 267 collatus 233 Indica 287 468 INDEX. TniCHOPODA . 259 Tachina decisa 259 albifrons latifrons Phasu . 269 nigro-rufa . Indica 259 atrala . contermiua . Hyalomya 260 basalis occidentis . 260 fuliginosa . proxiraa Phania . 261 tiiicta Indica 261 imbula densa OCYPTERA 226 hebes . addila marginalis . 226 atriventris diversa 262 umbrosa dubia . Tachina 263 adiista similis 266 alta . pilosa . Irifoi'Uiis 266 267 picea . umbrifeia notata 267 compacla . • varia . caliginosa . lativitta 268 268 269 interrupta obconica cbrysotelus . similis CaliforniiB . divisa . 269 270 270 subpicea sordida subauiata . bomboides . nitida 271 271 autennata . anvilla sobria . 272 subvaiia subcinerea . 272 vulgata vittata . 273 Iricincta atra traDSversa . 273 274 vitlata tcnebrifciu . obtusa 274 suita . dorsalis 275 cincta . apicalis fulva . 275 276 uigrifcra alratula convecta 276 ruficornis exul . 277 insolita 277 Gonia . . . . grandis 278 ludiva austialis 279 squamata 279 DEXIDES . concisa 280 remota 280 Dkxia .... basalis 281 obscura lucii'era 282 fusifurmis . oruata 282 doi'salis INDEX. 469 Dexia iMuSCA muscaria 308 concolor 333 nolata 309 divisa . 333 canesceus . 310 incei'ta 334 postica 310 aucla . 334 iiasalis 311 violacea 335 longa . 3U inducta 335 convexa 312 sufTiisa 336 subcomprcssa 313 turbida 336 pedesli'is 313 fasciata 337 angusta 314 purpurea 337 australis 314 polita . 338 plana . 315 hebes . 338 tenuipes 316 felix . 338 semipicta 316 bicolor 339 sufiusa 317 leucocephala 339 albifrons 317 setenissiinma 340 insolita 318 insularis 340 quadrimaculala 319 temperata . 340 proxima 341 SARCOPHAGIDES 319 bigeminis 341 varia . 342 Sakcophaoa . 319 connexa 342 purpiirascens nirtipes 320 placida 343 321 iuterrupta . 343 parva . 321 coutigua 344 deielicta 322 dubia . 344 maculosa 322 coslalis 344 decisa . 323 determinata 345 comes . 323 chrjsolelus . 346 suffusa 324 obscura 346 advena 324 distincta 346 incei'ta 324 basalis 347 aunfinis 325 occidenlis 347 cognata 325 ex t rem a 348 sericea 326 stipata 348 fulvivitta 326 vicaria 348 calida . 326 serva . 349 contertnina . 327 bifrons 327 Idia 350 assidua 328 varia . 350 fulvipes 328 basalis 328 ANTHOAIYIDES 360 pallipes 329 cbiysotelus . 329 Anthomvia . 350 priecipua 351 MUSCIDES 330 stupida 351 Indica 352 MuscA . 330 unicolor 363 cuprea 331 subpuncuta 353 occidentis 332 solita . 354 470 INDEX. Anthomyia Hei.omyza incerta 3S4 pallida 405 solita . 354 angusta 405 tarsal is 355 velutiiia 405 adjecta 355 maura 406 terminalis . 356 detracta 356 IIeteromyza 403 maculosa 357 maculipennis 367 robiista 403 tricolor 358 cinctipes 404 fiiniifera 358 translata 359 Dkyomyza 370 addita . 359 bicolor 370 inserla 360 inducta 360 leucotelus . 361 Tetanocera 401 vicai'ia 361 cornuta 401 introducla . 362 australis 402 indicata 362 aliena 363 Thecomyia 402 adducta 363 certa . 364 longicornis 402 despecta 364 maura 364 LAUXANIDES ^tliiops tenuior 365 365 Lauxania 377 Brasiliensis 366 polita . 377 communis 366 iudistiucta 377 C^NOSIA 367 L0NCH;EA 378 tarsal is 367 indistincta 378 antica . 367 Brasiliensis 378 lata . 368 solita . 368 371 atrata . 369 Sapromyza . intacta 369 tincla . 371 inetallica 371 HELOMYZIDES lateralis 371 SCIOMYZA 397 Brasiliensis 372 squalida lineata 397 398 ORTALTDES lestacca 398 Ulidia . 397 australis replela . 399 399 divergens 397 capensis antiva . 400 400 Obtalis 372 parallela 401 conspersa 372 conformis 373 Hblomvza 404 basalis 373 rufifrons 404 angusta 374 INDEX. 471 ROPALOMERA 375 Calobata tibialis STS atia 394 varipes 375 guttata 394 contrauta 395 Trypeta 378 bicolor 395 aigentata 396 antiqua 378 dubia . 379 OSCINIDES conferta 379 cylindrica 380 Chlobops 414 basalis 380 BrasilieDsis 414 divisa 381 parallela 381 GEOMYZIDES flexuosa 382 Gymnopa 413 varia . 382 albovaiia 383 nigro-ffinea 413 arcuata 383 taisalis 413 scutellata 384 albida 384 Opomyza 413 mixta . 385 lineala 413 coiitvaria 385 quadrigiitta 366 DuOSOPHILA . 410 paiilhoiiiia . 386 excepta 387 qiiadrimaculata . 410 ferniginea . 387 atbipes 410 la;la . 388 fronto . 410 linearis 411 brevis . 411 SEPSIDES decemguttata . 411 Sepsis . 376 miiiuta 412 tai'salis 412 terminalis 376 atra 412 distincta 376 HYDROMYZIDES Cai.obata 389 NOTIPHILA 406 compressa . 389 solita . 406 brevipennis . terminalis . 369 390 «rgentata 407 valida . 390 transversa 407 Brasiliensis 408 picea . basalis 391 391 costalis 408 leucomelas . 392 Ephydba 409 varipes 392 uigrifilum . 393 pinguis 409 tenuipes 393 auslralis 409 REFERENCES TO THE PLATES. PLATE I. Fig. 1. AC/lNIHOMEB& MAGNIFICA. „ 2. PaNGONI* COMPllEHENSA. „ 3. Panoonia alboaira. „ 4. CyCLOTELUS I'KUINOSUS. „ 5. Phyous canescens. „ 6. dlmassus terminai.is. „ 7. Inopus despectus. PLATE II. Fig. 1. TaBANUS EBVTHnOTELUS. „ 2. TaBANUS DISCIFER. „ 3. TaBANUS hilaris. „ 4, 6. Tabanus Pyrhhus. „ 6. DlCIIEI.ACERA I'liiETEUEUNS. „ 7. Scepsis nivalis. „ 8. Tabanus sobmacula. PLATE III. Fig. 1. CaCOSIS NIGER. . „ 2. PtiLOCERA CONTINUA. „ 3. BiASTGs Indicus. „ 4. Metabasis bostratus. „ 5. Cabasa rufithorax. „ 6. PrOLEPSIS FUMIFLAMMA. „ 7. Cyrtopogon laphrides. „ 8. Discocephala alboaura. LIST OK PLA'fES. 473 PLATE IV. Fiff. 1. Eharmostus bimacula. „ 2. MoRIMNA MALLOPHORIDES. „ 3. PhENEUS TIBIALIS. „ 4. NUSA jEQUALIS. „ 5. PsEUDORUS PICEUS. „ 6. Phellus olaucus. „ 7. Scan DON coJirACTus. „ S. CH/ERADBS AUllIGENA. PLATE V. Fig.'l. EXETASIS TUMENS. „ 2. UdRISTES PI.AVITIBIA. „ 3. MlXTEMYlA QUADIIIFASCIAIA. „ 4. COLAX Javanus? „ 5. cliorisius bifrons. „ 6. Cyllenia abebhans. „ 7. SyNCHUS SIMPLEX. „ 8. Parisus patebculus. PLATE VI. Fig. 1. NicoNiA PENTHOPHORA (Empis pentlioiiliora, Wied. Axiss. Zweifl. ii. 4, 6). „ 2. PsiLOPUS GEMMARUS. „ 3. Phthiria compkessa. „ 4. Tabuda fulvipes. „ 5. el'istrophe conjungkns. „ (J. Cekatophya variegata. „ 7. DeINECHES NIGBO-El'LVA. „ 8. DoLICHOGYMA CHILENSIS. PLATE VIL Fig. 1. TaCHINA 0RAKDI8. 2. Tachina insolita. 3. Tachina fulva. 4. Phania Inoica. 6. OuYPTERA DIVERSA. 6. Calobata picea. 7. Calobata atka. 8. iiopalomeba tibialis. 474 LIST OF ri,ATES. PLATE VIII. 1. Trypeta hasalis. 2. Tkypeta flexuosa. 3. Trypeta akcoata. 4. Trypkta albovakia. 5. Trypeta scutellata. 6. TllYPETA OYLINDRICA. 7. Trypeta contkaria. 8. Trypeta excepta. B. NEWMAN, PBINTEB, 9, DEVONSHIRE STKEBT, niSHOPS(;ATK, LONDON. Fl. 1. Tl.Z. HI. V VIll.