144 ME. WALKER OK DIPTEE.A COLLECTED AT MAKESSAR. 



and the hind borders of the segments tawny : legs black, short ; 

 tibiae tawny, black at the base and at the tips : wings grey, slightly 

 lurid in fi-ont, with numerous partly confluent blackish spots ; veins 

 black ; discal transverse vein straight, upright, parted by much less 

 than its length from the border, and by about twice its length from 

 the prsebraehial transverse ; halteres tawny. Length of the body 2i 

 lines ; of the wings 4 lines. 



Gen. ScioMYZA, Fallen. 



161. SciOMYZA REPLENA, n. s. Fcem. Picea, capite ferrugineo lituris 

 albis, antennis pedibus thoracisque vittis quatuor rufescentibus, ab- 

 domine nigro fasciis rufescentibus, femoribus nigris, tibiis nigro bifas- 

 ciatis, alis nigricantibus albido trifasciatis margine postico cinereo. 



Female. Piceous ; head with several black bristles, white about the 

 eyes, ferruginous above, with a white transverse line hindward, with a 

 partly black partly white mark on each side, and with an abbreviated 

 whitish streak in the middle ; antennae reddish, piceous towards the 

 tips, 3rd joint conical, less than twice the length of the 2nd ; arista 

 plumose ; thorax with four reddish stripes, the outer pair incomplete ; 

 abdomen black, with a reddish band on the fore border of each seg- 

 ment ; legs reddish, femora black, tibiae with two black bands; 

 wings blackish, with three irregular abbreviated whitish bands, cine- 

 reous along the hind border ; veins black ; discal transverse vein 

 straight, upright, parted by less than its length from the border, and 

 bv nearly twice its length from the praebrachial transverse ; halteres 

 testaceous. Length of the body 2f lines ; of the wings 5 lines. 



162. SciOMYZA? LEUCOMELANA. n. s. Fam. Picea, nitens, subtus 

 alba, capite piano, antennis rufis apice nigris, arista plumosa, abdomine 

 nigro, pedibus halteribusque testaceis, alis nigricantibus acutis. 



Female. Piceous, shining ; head flat above, a little narrower than the 

 thorax ; epistoraa, sides of the peristoma, under side and disk of the 

 pectus white ; antennae red, reaching the epistoma, third joint elon- 

 gate-conical, black towards the tip ; arista plumose ; scutellum large ; 

 abdomen oval, black, hardly longer or broader than the thorax ; legs 

 short, testaceous ; wings blackish, paler along the hind border, rather 

 pointed at the tips ; costa very convex ; veins black, radial vein slightly 

 curved, cubital vein and praebrachial vein converging towards the tip ; 

 discal transverse vein nearly straight and upright, jiarted by more than 

 its length from the border, and by nearly twice its length from the 

 praebrachial transverse ; halteres testaceous. Length of the body 2 

 lines ; of the wings 4 lines. 



Gen. Amblada, n. g. 



Fam. Corpus sat robustum. Caput transversum, thorace vix angus- 

 tius. Antennae capitis latitudine breviores ; articulns ,'i"* lanceolatus, 



