DIPTEHA. 79 



scutcheon ferruginous, armed ivith ferruginous teeth : abdomen a little 

 longer and broader than the chest, greenish on each side; underside 

 adorned with an indistinct greenish stripe : legs tawny ; hind-feet pitchy, 

 tawny towards the base : wings colourless ; wing-ribs, veins and poisers 

 tawny. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 



Van Diemen's Land. 



Odontomyia exul, Fern. 



Nigra, scutello inermi, abdominis apice fulvo, antennis nigris, pedihus 

 piceis, tarsis fiilvis, alis alhidis. 



Body black, dull, covered with tawny down : head somewhat length- 

 ened in front : eyes pitchy : feelers black ; first and second joints of equal 

 length ; third shorter : scutcheon unarmed : abdomen finely punctured, a 

 little longer and much broader than the chest ; tip tawny : legs ipitchy ; 

 feet tawny : wings whitish ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins yellow ; poisers 

 whitish yellow. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 



? 



Odontomyia solennis, Mas. 



^nea, scutelli margine postico fulvo dentibus diiabus flavis armato, ab- 

 domine viridi apice fulvo vittaquc picea ornato, antennis pedibmque 

 fulvis, alis alhidis. 



Body brassy : head black, clothed beneath with white hairs ; sides of 

 the peristoma yellow : eyes red and composed of large facets above, brassy 

 black and of very small facets beneath : mouth pitchy : feelers dark tawny, 

 paler towards the base: chest and breast clothed with short tawny hairs ; 

 hind borders of the scutcheon tawny, armed with two yellow spines : ad- 

 domen pale green, a little broader but not longer than the chest, tawny 

 towards the tip, adorned above with a pitchy stripe which widens towards 

 the tip : legs pale tawny : wings whitish ; wing-ribs and veins yellow ; 

 poisers tawny, with apple-green knobs. Length of the body 3 lines ; of 

 the wings 6 lines. 



East India. 



