MR. WALKER OS DIPTERA COLLECTED AT MAKESSAR. 115 



2" longior ; aristg^pubescens. Abdomen brevi-ovatum, tliorace multo 

 brevius. Perfes simplices. .4^« raediocres. 

 Female. Body moderately stout. Head transverse, almost as broad as 

 the thorax, somewhat flat above; proboscis and palpi very short. 

 Antennie shorter than the breadth of the head ; 3rd joint lanceolate, 

 longer than the 2nd ; arista pubescent. Abdomen short-oval, much 

 shorter than the thorax. Legs simple, moderately long. Wings of 

 moderate size ; veins of the usual structure. 



163. Amblada atomaria, n. s. Fcem. Cinerea, capite guttis qua- 

 tuor fuscis maculisque duabus atris, arista alba fihformi, thorace 

 lineis duabus punctisque plurimis fuscis, abdomine fulvo segmentorum 

 marginibus nigro punctatis, pedibus fulvis, tibiis albidis nigro bifas- 

 ciatis, alis lui'ido-cinereis. 



Female. Cinereous ; head white about the eyes, with two brown dots 

 on each side of the vertex, and with a deep black spot on each side in 

 front ; antennae cinereous-brown ; arista white, filiform, seated on the 

 base of the 3rd joint, which it much exceeds in length ; thorax with 

 two slender brown lines and with very numerous brown points ; ab- 

 domen tawny, with black points on the hind borders of the segments ; 

 legs tawny ; tibia; dingy whitish, with two black bands on each ; wings 

 grey, with a lurid tinge ; veins tawny, black by the costa at the base ; 

 discal transverse vein straight, upright, parted by less than its leno-th 

 from the border, and by full twice its length from the prasbrachial 

 transverse ; halteres testaceous. Length of the body 2^ lines ; of the 

 wings 5 lines. 



Gen. Sepedon, Latr. 



1<)4. Sepedon Javanensis, Desv. Essai Myod. 677- 2. 

 Inhabits also Java. 



Subfam. Lauxanides, Walk. 

 Gen. LoNCHCEA, Fallen. 



165. LoNCHCEA? puNCTiPENNis. FcEm. Nigra, nitens, capite an- 

 tico argenteo, antennarum articulo 3^ longe-conico, arista plumosa. 

 tarsis halteribusque piceis, alis cinereis basi nigris pimcto costali 

 nigro. 



Female. Black, shining, with several stout bristles; head silvery in 

 front; face flat; antenna; short; third joint elongate-conical, arista 

 very plumose ; abdomen oval, convex, a little shorter and narrower 

 than the thorax; tarsi and halteres piceous ; wings grey, black at the 

 base, with a black costal point at the tip of the subcostal vein ; veins 

 yellowish, black at the base ; costal vein black ; discal transverse vein 

 straight, upright, ])arted by less than its length from the border, and 

 by nearly twice its length from the i)r«brachial transverse. Length 

 of the body 2] lines ; of the wings 4 g lines. 

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