•^01 TNSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



abdomen pitchy ; hind borders of the sepnetits whitish: legs pitchy; hips 

 beneath, knees and fore-feet tawny : wings colourless ; wing-ribs and veins 

 dart lawny ; veins partly pitchy along the fore border ; scales pale gray 

 with tawny borders. Length of the body li line ; of the wings 3 lines. 



East Indies. 



Fam. EMPID.E, Meigen. 

 Genus EMPIS, Linn. 



Empis fimbria, Fem. 



Niger, cinerascens, antennis pedibusque nigris, his latifsime ciliatis, alis 

 limpidis basi subfuscis. 



Black, tinged with gray : head and chest thinly clothed with black 

 hairs : eyes dark red : mouth pitchy : abdomen clothed with short black 

 hairs : legs covered with iridescent down, very deeply fringed with black 

 hairs : wings colourless, pale brown at the base ; wing-ribs, veins and 

 poisers pitchy. Length of the body 1 line ; of the wings 2| lines. 



Brazil. 



Genus HI LARA, Meigen. 



HiLARA iJTOEEA, Fallen. 

 Van Diemen's Land. 



HiLARA CERTA, Fem. 



Nigro-cinerea, thorace quadri-vitlato, antennis nigris, pedibus fulvis, femo- 

 ribus tibiis tarsisque apice nigris, alis subfuscis. 



Slack, dull, tinged with gray which forms four stripes on the chest, 

 clothed with short black hairs : eyes red : mouth pitchy, nearly as long as 

 the chest : feelers black : legs tawny, beset with short black hairs and 

 bristles; lips of thighs and of shanks black ; feet black, taivny at the base : 

 wings pale brown, palest in the disks of the areolets in the middle part; 

 wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base ; poisers tawny. Length 

 of the body 21 lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 



Van Diemen's Land. 



