13G ME. WALKER ON DIPTERA COLLECTED AT MAKESSAB. 



tawny ; autennse pale red, not near reaching the epistoma, 3rd joint 

 less than thrice the length of the 2nd ; thorax with three slender 

 bright cupreous stripes ; abdomen wanting ; legs black ; wings black- 

 ish grey, grey along the hind border ; veins black ; praebrachial vein 

 forming a very obtuse and much rounded angle at its flexure, slightly 

 curved inward between the flexure and the tip ; discal transverse vein 

 undulating, parted by more than half its length from the border, and 

 by much less than its length from the flexure of the prcebrachial ; alulae 

 whitish, with testaceous borders; halteres tawny. Length of the 

 body 5 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



132. MuscA SPERATA, n. s. (Gen. Lucilia, Desv.). Mas. Aureo- 

 viridis, capite uigro-cinereo, proboscide palpis antennis pedibusque 

 uigris, thoracis disco cupreo, alis cinereis basi et apud costam sub- 

 luridis, alulis obscure cinereis. 



Male. Golden green ; head cinereous black ; eyes bare ; proboscis, 

 palpi, and antennae black, the latter not reaching the epistoma ; disk 

 of the thorax bright cupreous ; abdomen shorter than the thorax ; 

 legs black ; wings grey, with a lurid tinge at the base and along part 

 of the costa ; veins black ; praebrachial vein forming a rounded and 

 very obtuse angle at its flexure, hardly curved inward from thence to 

 its tip ; discal transverse vein very slightly curved inward behind the 

 middle, parted by much less than its length from the border, and by 

 hardly less than its length from the flexure of the praebrachial; alulae 

 dark grey. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 



133. MuscA INSCRIBBNS, u. s. (Gcn. Chrysomyia, Desv.). Faun. 

 Aureo-viridis, capite albo, palpis fulvis, antennis piceis, abdomine seg- 

 mentorum marginibus pedibusque nigris, alis cinereis basi nigrican- 

 tibus, alulis cinereo-albis. 



Female. Deep bright green ; head white ; frontaUa black, linear ; palpi 

 tawny ; antennae piceous, nearly reaching the epistoma ; abdomen 

 almost as long as the thorax, hind borders of the segments black ; 

 legs black ; wings grey, blackish at the base ; veins black ; praebrachial 

 vein forming an obtuse and rounded angle at its flexure, hardly curved 

 inward from thence to its tip ; discal transverse vein nearly straight, 

 parted by little more than half its length from the border, and by 

 much less than its length from the flexure of the praebrachial ; alulae 

 cinereous with white borders, the upper pair white. Length of the 

 body 4| lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 



134. MuscA ELECTA, n. s. (Gen. Luciha, Desv.). Mas et Fozm. 

 Viridis, capite albo, palpis antennis pedibusque nigris, alis cinereis, 

 alulis albido-cincreis. Fcem. Frontis lateribus nigris. Var. /3, Mas. 

 Aureo-viridis. 



Male and Female. Bright green ; head white, that of the female black 

 and shining on each side of the broad dull black frontalia ; antenna3 

 black, nearly reaching the epistoma; abdomen a little broader and 

 shorter than the thorax ; legs black ; wings grey ; veins black ; prac- 



