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terior cell rather narrow, reaching the posterior border ; discoidal vein 

 convex after the angle. 



C. STABULANS. Meigeu. Macquart, Dipt., II., p. 277. 



Ash colour. Palpi ferruginous. Face and sides of the front 

 silvery. Frontal band and antennae black ; base of the third joint 

 ferruginous. Thorax with black lines ; scutellum and extremity 

 ferruginous. Abdomen marked with black. Legs ferruginous ; base 

 of the thighs and tarsi black. 



Length, 3—1 lines. 



New Zealand ("Reise der ^Novara'") ; Tasmania; Europe. 



Probably introduced. 



Section— M USCIDiE.ACALTPTEE^. 



Style of the antennae generally one-jointed ; first posterior marginal 

 cell open; scales small or rudimentary. 



Sub-Family — ANTnoMTZiN^. 

 Third joint of the antennae elongated ; style two-jointed. Eyes 

 generally contiguous in the male. Pulvilli elongated in the male. 

 Scales medium or small. 



aenus-AEICIA. 



Macquart. 

 Style of antennae plumose. Abdomen oval, generally furnished 

 with bristles. Scales rather large, the lower valve passing the upper. 

 Wings open. 



A. MELAs. Schiner, I.e., p. 302 (1868). 



Black. Thorax with two indistinct darker streaks. Abdomen 

 yellow-grey, with whitish fine incisions ; each segment with two or 

 three black three-cornered spots together, which are separated by a 

 small pale-dusted space, in the centre of which is a blackish spot. 

 The spots are most distinct on the third segment ; the fourth segment 

 is black with two whitish spots on the posterior margin. Head black ; 

 face white ; front faint black, broad in the male. Antennae black ; 

 the third joint hardly twice as long as the two basal ones together ; 

 proboscis and palpi black. Legs pitch-black; knees small, rust- 

 yellow ; tibiae a little lighter than the femora ; a remarkable bristle-like 

 covering. Wings tinged pale rust-brown, darker on the base and 

 fore-rim ; cubital and discoidal veins diverging in front ; hind cross- 

 vein S-shaped. Scales rust-yellow. 



