A Mo/iog/iipÂ of Egypl'ian Diplcra. 



f. 14. (1902); Beck., Mittcil. Zool. IMus. Berl., II. 83. 118. (1903) ; 

 LuNDB., Dipt. DaniccL, V. 418-19. (1916). 



SY\0\YMY:—i. œnr^rcjis M.xci^., Dipt, Exot.,Suppl. II. 

 (2). 117. (59) 45. (1842). 



cuprovittatHsWiEU., Aiisserenrop. Zwcill., II. 190. 54. (Ih36). 



flavicornis Rossi (jiec. î\\br.) Faun. Ktr., IL 290. 1465. {Syr- 

 2)ht/J) {I7d0): Illk;., Fanna Ktr. Ko.ssi, II. 447. 1465. {Sijrpln/s) 

 (1807). 



mPÏanius H.4RRI-., Expns. Eiigl. Ins., 53 l. XV. f. 12. {'Mi/sra) 

 (1776). 



punctafa Mull., Fauiia Fricdriuhsd.. 720 (Musca) (1746) et. 

 Zool. Dan. Prodr., 2050. (Musc^,) (1776) ; Vill., Entom. Linn., III. 

 465. 143. (;l/î/.sw) (1789); SniR.^NK. Fauiia boiea, HT. 115. 2432. 

 (Musca) (1803). 



sincerus W.4LK.. Li.st Dipt. Brit. Mus., III. 611. (ls49) ; T. 

 Harris, Ins. injur. to Ve^^. Ôsd., 609. (1862); Lw. Sillim. Juiun. 

 of Sci. and Arts, XXXVII. 317. (1864). 



sfi/rfins Newm., Entom. Mag., II. 313. (1830). 



fap/ucus WiEi)., Aussereuroij. Zweifl., II. 191.57. (1830). 



DIAGXOSIS: — Scutelluni fenecus like tlie thorax; eyes spot- 

 ted and touching in the maie onlv for one third of the length of 

 the vertical triangle; specics entir?ly shilling aeneous. 



D ESC RIPT 10 S : Malc : Entively shilling seneous-black ; face 

 almost covered with greyish-white dust and whitish pnbescence, 

 except on a shining black, rather narrow, elongate central knob, 

 which extends down to the upper mouth-edgc; the space from the 

 mouth-edge to the eyes is also shining black. Jowls fairly large, 

 black witii whitish pubescence ; occipital border greyishblack with 

 very short pubescence; occiput rather puffed ont and shining, with 

 larger luteous pubescence. Vertex shining black, rather long, with 

 inconspicuous short tawny pubescence. Frons covered with dust and 

 pubescence rather more yeîlow than that on the face, and leaving 

 the small (sometimes very small) middle space shining black, and 

 which is continued down to the sides of the antennse, but with 

 a luteous margin close against the antennœ. 



Eyes reddish with dark spots, less numerous and more isolated 

 and rounded on the lower part, but more numerous and irregular- 

 ly coalescing on the upper part ; thev meet for a very short dis- 

 tance, about one third of the vertical triangle, and bear a very short 



