COLLECTED AT DORET, NEW GUIXEA. 245 



Female, Black, with very slightly gilded cinereous tomeutum ; fron- 

 talia deep black, linear; eyes bare ; antenna; nearly reaching the 

 epistoraa ; 3rd joint about six times the length of the 2nd ; thorax 

 with four slender black lines ; abdomen tessellated ; legs black, very 

 stout ; wings brownish cinereous, difFusedly blackish along the costa ; 

 veins black ; pra^brachial vein forming a rounded hardly obtuse angle 

 at its flexure, slightly curved inward from thence to its tip; discal 

 transverse vein deeply undulating, parted by nearly half its length 

 from the border, and by very much more than half its length from the 

 flexure of the prsebrachial ; alulae lurid whitish. Length of the body 

 .3^ lines ; of the wings / lines. 



54. MuscA CALLiPHOROiDES, n. s. (Gen. Graptomyza, Dew.) Mas. 

 Nigricanti-cyanea, tumida, capite albo, palpis fulvis, antennis piceis 

 longis basi rufescentibus, thorace vittis quatuor auratis, pectore tes- 

 taceo, abdomine fasciis duabus basique albidis, femoribus fulvis, alis 

 cinereis, costa venisque fusco marginatis. 



Male. Blackish-blue, tumid ; head white with white hairs beneath ; a 

 stout bristle on each side of the peristoma ; mouth black ; palpi 

 tawny ; antennae piceous, reaching the peristoma, reddish towards the 

 base ; 3rd joint full six times the length of the 2nd ; thorax tawny in 

 some aspects, with four pale gilded stripes ; middle stripes much 

 abbreviated hindward, narrower than the lateral stripes, which are 

 connected hindward by a band ; pectus testaceous ; abdomen with 

 two narrow whitish bands hindward, whitish towards the base, with 

 the exception of a widely interrupted blackish-blue band ; legs black ; 

 coxae and femora tawny ; wings cinereous, brown along the costa and 

 along the veins ; veins black ; prsebrachial vein forming a rounded 

 right angle at its flexure, much curved inward from thence to its tip ; 

 discal transverse vein very slightly undulating, parted by a little more 

 than half its length from the border, and by much more than half its 

 length from the flexure of the prsebrachial ; alulae cinereous, with tes- 

 taceous borders. Length of the body 4i lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



55. MuscA TRIFASCIA, n. s. (Gen. Ochromyia, Macq.) Fcem. Tes- 

 tacea, capite albido, frontalibus ferrugineis, antennis longis rufescen- 

 tibus, thorace aurato, abdomine fasciis tribus nigris, tibiis tarsisque 

 piceis, alis cinereis apud venas subluridis. 



Female. Testaceous ; heatl whitish ; frontalia ferruginous, broad, shghtly 

 widening in front; sides of the peristoma prominent, with stout black 

 bristles ; mouth black, reddish towards the tip ; antenna; reddish, 

 nearly reaching the epistoma ; 3rd joint about six times the length of 

 the 2nd ; thorax with gilded pubescence ; abdomen with three black 

 bands ; tibiae and tarsi piceous : wings cinereous, slightly lurid along 

 the veins ; veins black, testaceous towards the base ; praebrachial vein 

 forming an extremely obtuse angle at its flexure, very slightly curved 

 inward from thence to its tip ; discal transverse vein slightly undula- 



