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HiLAKA CONllKMATA, MaS. 



Nig7-a, pedibus piccis, alls sublimpidis. 



Black, thinly clothed with black hairs and bristles : eyes pitchy ■. 

 sucker black, much shorter than the chest : feelers black : legs pitchif : 

 wings nearly colourless ; cross-veins clouded with brown ; wing-ribs pitchy ; 

 veins black, pitchy at the base ; poisers yellow. Length of the body If 

 line ; of the wings 4 lines. 



Van Diemen's Land. 



Fam. HYBOTIN.^, Meigen. 



Genus HYBOS, Fahr. 



Hybos dimidiatus, Mas et Fen>. 



Nigro-aiieus, antemiis nigris, tibiis piceis, tarsis fulvis, alls nigro-funcis 

 npice limpidis. 

 Head black, clothed with very few black hairs : eyes dark red : mouth 

 pitchy : feelers black : ch^st brassy black, shining, clothed with brown hairs : 

 abdomen coppery : legs shining; thighs brassy black; knees ferruginous ; 

 shanks pitchy ; feet taumy : uings dark brown and %videned on the fore 

 border for a little more than half the length from the base, colourless thence 

 to the tips ; wing-ribs and veins black ; jioisers pitchy. Length of the 

 body Hliue; of the wings 3^ lines. 



Brazil. 



Hybos istegeu, Mas. 



Nigro-aneus, thoraci vittis duabus fuscis, tibiis piceis, tibiis intermediis 

 tarsisque fulvis, alis nigro-fuscis apice fuscis. 

 Black : eyes dark red : mouth pitchy : feelers black : chest slightly 

 chalybeous, clothed with brown hairs, adorned with two indistinct brown 

 stripes : abdomen coppery, fringed with black hairs oneacii side towards the 

 base: legs beset with black hairs and bristles; thighs coppery; shanks 

 pitchy ; knees, feet and middle-shanks tau-ny : wings broicn, blackish brown 

 with a uidcned fore border for more than half the length from the base ; 



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