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the chest, shining beneath, pitchy here and there and clothed with short 

 tawny hairs above : legs -pale ferruginous, clothed with tawny hairs ; tro- 

 chanters and thighs mostly black ; a black band on each shank : wings gray ; 

 veins clouded with brown ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black ; the stump of a 

 slightly curved vein proceeding from the upper side of the second submar- 

 ginal areolet ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 

 12 lines. 



New South Wales. 



Genus XYLOTA, Meigen. 



Xylota ^qualis, Mas. 



^nea, capite scutelloque fulvis, abdomine nigro fasciis sex fulvis ornato, 

 segmentorum marginibus posticis cyaneis, antennisnigris,pedibus ful- 

 vis, alis limpidis. 



Head pale buff, clothed with pale yellow hairs ; crown clothed with 

 black hairs ; a pitchy stripe along the face, which has a bare shining ferru- 

 ginous knob near the epistoma : mouth pitchy : feelers black ; third joint 

 pitchy at the base : eyes bronzed; facets larger on the crown than else- 

 where: chest and breast hoary, thickly clothed with pale yellow hairs ; chest 

 with a brassy tinge; scutcheon <a?t;n//, clothed with black hairs : abdomen 

 black, obconical, tinged with blue on the hind borders of the segments, much 

 longer than the chest, clothed with black hairs, adorned with six bands ; 

 first, second, fourth and sixth bands tatcny, fourth indistinct, third and 

 fifth tvhitish : legs taumy, clothed with short tawny hairs ; thighs towards 

 the base darker and clothed with darker hairs ; claws and foot-cushions 

 tawny ; tips of the claws black ; hind-legs dark tatcny or pitchy, their thighs, 

 shanks, and the first joints of the feet thickly fringed with black hairs : ivinys 

 colourless; wing-ribs, veins, and poisers tawny. Length of the body 6 

 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



East Indies. 



