364 IXSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



Anthomyia certa, Foem. 



Cyaneo-nigra, ccneo tincta ; antennce picecc ; ahe limpidce. 



Bluish-black, with a slight brassy tinge : frontalia deep black ; facialia 

 without bristles; epistoma very prominent: eyes bare: mouth and palpi 

 black : feelers pitchy ; third joint linear, almost truncated at the tip, reach- 

 ing the epistoma, more than four times the length of the second ; sixth 

 very slender, feathered with rather long hairs, tawny at the base, very much 

 longer than the third : chest bristly : abdomen oval, a little broader but 

 not longer than the chest : legs black ; wings colourless ; veins black, yel- 

 low at the base; lower cross-vein almost straight: alulae white : halteres 

 tawny, with pitchy knobs. Length of the body 2^ lines ; of the wings 5 

 lines. 



Brazil. 



Anthomyia despecta, Foem. 



Nigra, cinereo-tomentosa ; pectus canum ; abdominis segmenta fusco iri- 

 maculata ; pedes fulvi, femorihus obscurioribns, tarsis nigris ; alie 

 stibcinerece, ad costamf usees. 



Head wanting : chest and abdomen black, with a cinereous covering : 

 chest striped ? breast hoary : abdomen obconical, a little longer than the 

 chest, with three broivn spots on each segment : legs tawny ; thighs brownish 

 about the middle ; feet black; icings slightly gray, with a brotvn tinge be- 

 neath the fore border ; veins black, tawny towards the base ; lower cross- 

 vein almost straight : alulae whitish : halteres yellow. Length of the body 

 2 lines ; of the wings 4 lines. y ^ 



Brazil. ~^^ p'^^ ^^ ViAfVUJ^ , '^ <i&<fW0^l^ *-- ^^ . 



^ Anthomyia mauba, Fam. 



Nigra ; caput albido-tomentosum ; abdomen apice suhtusque citiereum ; 

 pedes picei ; alee pallide fuscescentes. 



Black, slightly shining : head with a slight whitish covering ; antenna- 

 ria dull black ; epistoma not prominent : mouth, palpi and feelers black ; 

 third joint of the feelers much longer tlian the second ; sixth slender, stout 



