230 MR. F. WALKER ON DIPTEEA COLLECTED IN 



the sides of the thorax. Thorax with four reddish stripes. Abdomen 

 dull tawny, fusiform, narrower and much longer than the thorax, 

 piceous towards the tip. Femora yellow ; fore femora with piceous 

 tips; hind tarsi yellow, piceous towards the tips. Wings limpid, 

 black along the costa, diffusedly clouded with brown about the discal 

 transverse vein ; veins black, pale towards the base ; discal transverse 

 vein straight, parted by less than one-fourth of its length from the 

 bordei', and by much more than its length from the praebrachial trans- 

 verse vein. Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 12 lines. 



Subfani. Psilides, Walk. 

 Gen. MiCEOPEZA, Macq. 



38. Micropeza prolixa, Wal . See Vol. V. p. 299. 



39. Micropeza perclusa, n. s. Mas. Nigra, nitens, gracillima, 

 epistomate albo, pectore fulvo, abdomine fulvo longo compresso apice 

 nigro, pedibus piceis, coxis feraoribusque posterioribus fulvis, his piceo 

 fasciatis, tibiis tarsisque anticis albidis, alis nigricantibus basi fasciisque 

 tribus cinereis. 



Male. Black, shining, very slender. Epistoma white. Proboscis 

 tawny. Antennae extending much beyond the epistoma; 3rd joint 

 linear, rather broad, rounded at the tip ; arista minutely setulose. 

 Pectus mostly tawny. Abdomen tawny, much compressed, very 

 much longer than the thorax, increasing in depth towards the tip, 

 which is black. Legs piceous, slender ; coxse tawny ; posterior 

 femora tawny, with a piceous band ; fore tibiae and fore tarsi whitish. 

 Wings blackish, cinereous at the base, and with three cinereous 

 bands ; veins black ; cubital and praebrachial veins converging eX' 

 teriorly ; discal transverse vein straight, parted by its length from the 

 border, and by about thrice its length from the prasbrachial transverse 

 vein. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 



Subfam. Sepsides, WalJc. 

 Gen. ANaiTTJLA, Walk. 



40. Angitula longicoUis, Walk. See Vol. IIL p. 123. 



North Ceram. 



Fam. MYCETOPHILID^, Holiday. 



Gen. SciARA, Meigen. 



1. SciARA PONDEROSA, n. sp. (Sect. 1, Meigen). Fain. Atra, vaUda 

 antennis robustis, thorace crasso, alis amplis nigricanti-cinereis apud 

 costam nigricantibus. 



Female. Deep black, robust. Antennae stout, full half the length of 



