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*Tabanus lucidulus Walker. List, etc., I, 188. 



*Tabanus rufiventris Macquart, Dipt. Exot, 1, 1, 141,39. Walker. List, etc., I, 

 ISO. 



LEPTIDiE. 



*Plieneus tibialis Walker, Dipt. Saiind., 15(5, Tab. IV, f. 3., 



"Mr. Walker refers this genus to the AsilicUe; I place it here on 

 the authority of Mr. Loew l^iu Utt)." — Osteu-Sacken. 

 Chrysopila jamaicensis ii. sp. 



Length, ^9,4 mm. Face and front browuish-black. Antennae, 

 and proboscis reddish; terminal style nearly three times the length 

 of the autennre. Thorax dull black ; male with golden pubescence; 

 humeri and scutellum brownish, pleurne grayish, abdomen blackish; 

 male with golden pubescence ; a denuded specimen shows the basal 

 half of the second segment to be yellow ; female with a yellowish 

 lateral line, slightly interrupted at the base of the segments; ovi- 

 positor yellow, tip brown. Legs yellow, with minute blackish hairs 

 on the tibite and tarsi, yellowish on the femora; a preapical spot on 

 the posterior temora and terminal joints of the tarsi blackish. 

 Wings hyaline, veins and stigma brown. 



Seven specimens, Port Antonio. 



ASILID^. 



Leptogaster longipes n. sp. 



Length, 9 , 9 mm. Face and front grayish; a few long yelloAv 

 hairs above the oval margin; ocelli and proboscis black ; antennje 

 dark brown. Dorsum of the thorax brownish, with three longitudi- 

 nal black lines ; the dorsal one gradually tapering towards the pos- 

 terior; lateral lines irregular, widest on the anterior side of the 

 suture. Pleunie and scutellum grayish. Abdomen black, with thin, 

 short, yellowish pubescence, longest on the sides of the last segments ; 

 anterior and posterior margins of the segments grayish, thus forming 

 somewhat obscure bands. Legs brownish, coxse yellowish, basal 

 joint of the front and middle tarsi (except the tip) light yellow; pos- 

 terior legs double the length of the middle ones, the outer third of 

 the femora greatly enlarged, and the enlarged portion encircled by 

 two yellow bands; tip of the tibiie, and of all the tarsal joints 

 blackish. Wings hyaline, veins blackish. 



One specimen. Port Antonio. 



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