406 INSECTA SAUNDEflSIANA. 



joint slightly conical, darker and much deeper than the second, and about 

 thrice its length ; sixth black, slender, tawny towards the base, feathered 

 with long hairs, more than twice the length of the third : abdomen obco- 

 uical, testaceous, ferruginous beneath, shorter and a little broader than the 

 chest : legs ferruginous ; fore-thighs and fore-shanks pitchy ; fore-thighs 

 armed beneath with long spines : wings pale gray, with a slight tawny 

 tinge along the fore border ; veins tawny ; first vein brown towards the tip; 

 lower cross-vein hardly curved inwards towards the base : halleres tawny, 

 pitchy at the base. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 



Amazon River. 



HeLOMYZA MAURA, Mas. 



Nigra ; caput fulvum ; antenna arista vix piumosa ; pedes picei, genuhus 

 tarsisgue fulvis, tarsis anticis piceis basifulvis; ahe fulva. 



Black : head tawny ; epistoma pitchy, not prominent : mouth pitchy : 

 feelers tawny ; third joint almost conical, more than twice the length of the 

 second ; sixth pitchy, very slender, feathered with short hairs, nearly thrice 

 the length of the third : abdomen obconical, very little longer than the 

 chest: legs pitchy; knees and feet tawny; fore-feet pitchy, tawny at the 

 base : wings tawny ; cross-veins straight, upright : halteres pitchy, yellow 

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



East Indies. 



Genus NOTIPHILA, Fallen. 



NoTiPHiLA soi.iTA, Mas et Foem. 



Nigra, cervino-tomentosa ; antennm fuivce ; pectus canum ; abdomen 

 cinereo-ccrvinum, e maculis trigonis fuscis quadrivittatum ; pedes 

 fulvi, femoribus nigris, tibiis nigro fasciatis ; alee subcinerea, venis 

 fulvo marginatis. 



Black, with a brownish fawn-colour covering : face with a slight hoary 

 tinge: mouth tawny : feelers tawny; third joint almost conical, full twice 

 the length of the second ; sixth black, feathered with long hairs : breast 

 hoary : abdomen cinereous fawn-colour, obconical, a little longer than the 

 chest, with four rows of triangular brown spots : legs tawny, thighs black; 

 shanks with very broad black bands : wings slightly gray, with a tawny 



