372 INSECTA SAUNDEESIANA. 



lower cross-vein upright, very slightly bent inward : halteres yellow. 

 Length of the body 2 lines ; of the wings 5 lines. 



Brazil. 



Sapuomyza Brasiliensis, Mas. 



Fulva ; fades alho vittala ; tarsi picei ; alee suhlimpidce, costa venisque 

 transversis fusco marginalis. 



Tawny, clothed with black hairs and bristles : crown flat ; face with 

 an oblique ivhite stripe on each side ; third joint of the feelers conical, more 

 than twice the length of the second ; sixth black, feathered, more than 

 twice the length of the third: abdomen oval, not longer than the chest: 

 feet pitchy : wings almost colourless, slightly tatvny along the veiiis, 

 brown along the fore border to the tip of the fifth longitudinal vein, and on 

 the cross-vei7is ; veins black, tawny towards the base ; first and second veins 

 short ; seventh about half the length of the eighth, which does not reach 

 the border ; lower cross-vein straight, slightly oblique. Length of the body 

 2| lines ; of the wings 5 lines. 



Brazil. 



Genus ORTALIS, Fallen. 



Macquart has divided Ortalis into the following genera — Epidesma, 

 Coilometopia, Euprosopia, Heterogaster, Cruphiocera, Notacanthina, Lani- 

 progaster (Chromatomyia, Cat. Dipt. Brit. Mus., where it is erroneously 

 placed with Duomyia, Zona and Trigonosoma, between Gonia and Idia), 

 Plagiocephala, Oxycephala, Amethysa, Ortalis, Ceroxys, Herina, Senopte- 

 rina(=Myrmecomyia and'Polystodes, Desv.), Ropalomera, Richardia, Clei- 

 tamia, Eniconeura, Eurypalpus, Camptoneura, Platystoma, and Loxo- 

 neura, 



Ortalis conspeesa, Foem. 



Fulva ; caput et thorax flavo vittata, hujus discus piceus ; abdomen basi 

 nigrum ; al<B subcinerece, maculis anticis fuscis guttisque posterioribus 

 limpidis. 



Tawny, almost linear and cylindrical : crown ferruginous, with a yel- 

 low stripe on each side ; face concave, with a ferruginous stripe ; epistoma 



