DIPTERA. 409 



Genus EPHYDRA, Fallen. 



Ephydra riNGUis, Foem. 



Nigra ; caput nigro-viride, alho-tomentosa ; antenncp jncea, arista piibcs- 

 cente ; abdomen nigro-viride; tibicB ferrugine<e ; alw fuscie, tnactdis 

 nonnuUis apud venas transversas subhyalinis. 



Blacli, shining: head greenish hlack and covered with white down in 

 front: feelers pitchy ; third joint short-conical, hut little longer than the 

 second ; sixth down)', bare towards the tip : abdomen dark green, obco- 

 nical, hardly longer than the chest: legs black ; knees and shanks ferrugi- 

 nous : wings brown ; veins black ; cross-veins clouded with dark brown, 

 adjoining which there are some almost colourless marks ; lower cross-vein 

 straight, oblique ; fifth vein not reaching the border. Length of the body 

 H line ; of the wings 4 lines. 



United States. 



Ephvdba australis, Fcem. 



Rufo-fusca ; caput cervinum ; antennce nigra; thorax vittis dnabus pec- 

 toreque canis ; abdominis segmenta marginibus posticis canis ; pedes 

 picei ; alts fusccE, maculis 9 limpidis. 



Reddish brown : head fawn-colour in front and beneath : feelers black : 

 third joint conical, full twice the length of the second ; sixth bare, stout 

 at the base, more than twice the length of the third : chest with two hoary 

 stripes : breast hoary : abdomen obconical, very little longer than the chest, 

 with a hoary band along the hind border of each segment : legs pitchy : 

 wings brown, with nine colourless spots ; one beneath the fore border; one 

 large, beneath the second vein and partly beneath the third ; four be- 

 neath the third ; three beneath the fourth, two of them beneath the lower 

 cross-vein ; veins black : halteres yellow. Length of the body 1.^ line ; of 

 the wings 3 lines. 



Van Uieman's Land. 



