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INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



feelers black ; tliirc! joint linear, rounded at the tip, not reaching the epi- 

 stoma, hardly twice the length of the second; sixth pubescent, slender, 

 about twice the length of the third : chest with three brown stripes : breast 

 hoary : aldomen oval, a little longer than the chest, trith a broad, short, 

 interrupted brown stripe resting on the hind border and extending nearly to 

 the fore border of each segment : legs black : ivings almost colourless ; veins 

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

 lower outward, the upper inward: alulae white : halteres yellow. Length 

 of the body 2 lines ; of the wings 4 lines. 



Brazil. 



Anthomyia introdl'cta, Foeiu. 



Nigra, cinereo-tomentosa ; thorax fusco trivittatus ; abdomen basi fulvum ; 

 alcB subcinerecE. 



Black, with a cinereous covering: frontalia brown, linear; facialia 

 without bristles; epistoma not prominent: eyes bare: mouth and palpi 

 black : feelers black, short ; third joint truncated, rather deep towards the 

 tip, not near reaching the epistoma, about twice the length of the second ; 

 sixth slender, microscopically pubescent, much more than twice the length 

 of the third : chest with three slender brown stripes: abdomen obconical, 

 not longer than the chest, dull tawny at the base : legs black ; knees tawny : 

 wings very pale gray ; veins black, tawny towards the base ; lower cross- 

 veins very slightly bent inward : alulee whitish : halteres yellow. Length 

 of the body \h line ; of the wings 3 lines. 



Anthomyia indicata, Mas. 



Atra; caput argenteum ; anlenncB picece : abdomen nigro-viride ; alcB 

 limpid(B. 



Deep black, shining : head with a silvery white covering above ; anten- 

 naria testaceous ; epistoma not prominent: mouth and palpi black: feelers 

 pitchy ; third joint more than twice the length of the second ; sixth very 

 slender, tawny towards the base ; abdomen greenish black, obconical, not 

 longer than the chest : legs black : icings colourless ; veins tawny ; lower 

 cross-vein very slightly inclined inward in the middle : alulae white with 

 vellow borders : halteres ferruginous. Length of the body 3 lines ; of 

 the wings 6 lines. 



East Indies. 



