54 DIPTERA 



Genus-BOTHEOPHOEA. 

 Schiner. 

 Head hemispherical ; front a little protruding ; lower face deeply 

 hollowed out ; keel small and high, like a partition ; rim round the 

 mouth strong, drawn forward ; cheeks broad and almost straight 

 below ; mouth large ; proboscis with bristles. Antennse bent down ; 

 first joint short ; the second a little lengthened ; the third rather 

 more than twice the second, rounded in front. Style naked. Thorax 

 flat, hollowed, and large. Scutellum semi-circular. Abdomen very 

 broad and plump, four segments ; genitalia hidden. Legs moderate. 

 Wings when at rest rather extended ; the first joosterior cell reaches the 

 exterior border before the tip of the wing. Discoidal vein angularly 

 bent in front, then curved outwards; diagonal vein S-like behind. 

 Scales large. 



B. zELEBORi. Schiner, I.e., p. 317 (1868). 



Blackish-brown. Thorax dusted with greyish-yellow; with four 

 velvet-black longitudinal streaks ; the middle pair short below and 

 joined to the shoulder spots in the form of a horse-shoe ; sides of 

 breast with reddish fox-like hairs ; a row of black bristles downward 

 from the root of the wing. Scutellum dark rust-yellow. Abdomen 

 rust-yellow, with narrow oblique velvet-black bands on each side 

 and a dark line on the back, close to which the ground colour is 

 whitish ; the whole surface with fox-like hairs ; the second and fourth 

 segments with bristles which are black at the base and reddish at the 

 point. Head yellow ; lower face shining brass-yclloAV, with blackish- 

 brown reflections ; front and sides blackish, with grey reflections ; 

 a broad black streak in the middle, which is deeply divided 

 below. Occiput grey; cheeks and middle breast with reddish 

 hairs. Legs pale pitch-brown; the thighs and fore part of tibiae 

 and tarsi darkened ; fore tarsi with gold-brown tomentum inside ; 

 thighs with matted hairs and bristles ; the middle of posterior tibiae 

 sparsely bristled outside; hair golden yellow; bristles black. Wings 

 hyaline, brownish at the base and front margin; longitudinal veins 

 with a dark shade ; small cross-vein, curved part of discoidal vein, 

 and hinder cross-vein with a broad rust-brown margin. 



Lengthy 8i lines ; breadth of abdomen, 4 lines. 



Genus-MICEOTEOPESA. 



Macquart. 

 Body broad. Head hemispherical, thick; proboscis with thick 

 lips ; palpi arched, enlarged at the extremity. Face broad, ciliated to 



