356 INSECTA SAUNDERSIAN'A. 



alulas whitish, with dark brown borders , halteres black. Length of the 

 body 4 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 

 Van Dieman's Land. 



Anthomyia terminalis, Mas. 



Nigra, cervino-tomentosa ; caput et pectus cana ; palpi fulvi ; antennce 

 nigra, hasi ferruginecB ; abdomen bnsi ritta fasciiaque niciricantibus ; 

 pedes fulvi, tarsis nigris ; alee subcinerecc, hasi fulvescentes. 



Head hoarij ; fiontalia deep black, triangular, not much longer than 

 broad : mouth black with a ferruginous tip ; palpi tawny, slender : feelers 

 black ; first and second joints ferruginous ; third linear, rounded at the tip, 

 reaching the epistoma, full twice the length of the second ; sixth feathered 

 with long hairs : chest with a fawn-colour covering : breast hoary : abdomen 

 with a fawn-colour covering, darker than the chest, with a blacldsh stripe 

 and with blacldsh bands on the sutures of the segments ; base blackish ; under 

 side with a tawny stripe on each side towards the base : legs tawny ; feet 

 black : ivings slightly gray, ivith an indistinct taiimy tinge at the base ; veins 

 black, tawny towards the base ; lower cross-vein with two distinct curves, 

 the lower inward, the upper outward. Length of the body 3^ lines : of the 

 wings 7 lines. 



United States. 



Anthomyia detracta, Mas. 



Nigra, cinereo-tomentosa ; caput album ; palpi flavi ; antennm nigra, ar- 

 liculo 2o apice ferrugineo ; abdomen hasi testacruni ; pedes fulvi, 

 tarsis nigris ; alee suhlimpidce, hasi et ad coslam flavescentes. 



Black, w'ith a cinereous covering ; head ivith a ivhite covering ; fron- 

 talia black; facialia without bristles ; epistoma yellow, not prominent : eyes 

 bare: mouth black, with a ferruginous tip; palpi yellow: feelers black ; 

 second joint ferruginous at the tip ; third rather deep, linear, pubescent, 

 truncated at the tip, almost reaching the epistoma, full twice the length of 

 the second ; sixth feathered with long hairs, almost twice the length of the 

 third ; breast hoary, with a testaceous scapula on each side in front : abdo- 

 men obconical, hardly longer than the chest, testaceous towards the base : 

 legs tawny ; feel black : wings almost colourless, yellowish at the base and 



