336 Capt. P. P. Kine’s South American Diptera. 
densé pubescentes: ale subfusce; costa saturatior ; nervi fusco sublim- 
bati: halteres rufo-fusci, apice nigri. 
Taken at St. Paul and at Rio Janeiro in Brazil. 
*13. PLECIA MAURA, 2. 5. 
Mas et fem. Omnino atra, alis fuscis. 
Corp. long. 4—5 lin. Alar. 8—10 lin. 
Atra, obscura, P.funebri similis at multó major: oculi nigro-fusci: thorax 
tristriatus: abdomen pubescens: pedes pubescentes: ale fusco; costa 
saturatior; nervi fusco limbati. 
An abundant species; many were taken at St. Catherine, in Brazil, by 
Lieut. T. Graves, R.N. 
14. BIBIO ANTARCTICA, 7. s. 
Fem. Atra, thorace rufo maculato, pedibus fuscis, femoribus flavis, alis hya- 
linis. | 
Corp. long. 2 lin. Alar. 4 lin. 
Caput nigrum, obscurum: thorax ater, nitidus, anticé rufo bifasciatus ; vitte 
in disco 4 rufze posticé connexz : abdomen nigrum, obscurum, pubescens : 
pedes fusci, pubescentes ; femora flava, nitida, apice basique fusca: ale 
hyaline, iridescentes; macula ad costam oblonga, fusca; nervi costales 
fusci; cæteri pallidé flavi: Aa/teres fulvi, apice nigro-fusci. 
Taken at Port Famine in the Straits of Magellan. : 
* 15. TABANUS LATUS. 
Fem. Afer ; thorax subtus anticé et utrinque abdominisque apex pilis rufis hirti. 
‘abanus latus. Guérin, Iconographie de Règne Animal, Insectes, pl. 77 i figi. 
Corp. long. 7 lin. Alar. 13 lin. 
Corpus nigro-griseum, obscurum, pubescens: caput subtùs anticè et utrinque 
pilis rufis hirtum : oculi nigro-fusci: ocelli 3 distincti: os nigrum, thorace 
brevius: antenne nigro-fusce, non furcatee: thorax suprà utrinque pilis 
nigris, subtüs anticé et utrinque pilis rufis hirtus: abdomen nigrum, feré 
lineare, apice paulló latius, nitidum, punctulatum ; puncta quoque ma- 
jora in ordinibus 2 utrinque collocata, preterquam segmento apicali 
