of a few apparently undescribed Insects. 57 



tnesothorax, the eyes dark brown, the head clothed below vvitli 

 hoary pubescence ; mesonotum testaceous, brilliantly glabrous ; 

 scutellum black, glabrous ; sternum black, but clothed with a 

 hoary fulvous pubescence ; abdomen fulvous above, with a 

 median, not very distinct, blackish marking extending from the 

 scutellum to the third segment, black beneath, with the exception 

 of a pale yellowish band immediately behind the hind legs, and 

 this is interrupted by three black obscurely defined markings, one 

 of them central, the others lateral ; coxae and nearly the whole of 

 the femora dark brown, approaching to black ; tibias and tarsi 

 testaceous. 



Hab. Moreton Bay, North Australia ; a single specimen was 

 taken by Mr. Gibbon, and is in that gentleman's collection. The 

 species of Pangonia is dedicated to Mr. Walker, whose labours in 

 the Diptera are familiar to all Entomologists, and to whom I am 

 indebted for pointing out the novelties in the Lepidoptera and 

 Diptera in this collection. 



Stirps ASILINA, Newman. 



Genus Dasypogon, Meigen. 



Sp. 1. Dasypogon Grantii, Newman. 



Niger, lamighie brevissimo aureo passim vestitus ; alls opacis, 

 Icete fulvis ; pedibus nigris ; femoribus apice, tibiis basi, Icele 

 testaceis. (Corp. long. '85 unc. ; alarum dilat. 1 unc.) 



Black, clothed in patches with a very short golden pile ; face 

 clothed with brilliant golden pile ; rostrum and antennae black ; 

 wings opaque, deep rich fulvous, the colour deeper in the vicinity 

 of the rays, which are concolorous, paler in the centres of the 

 cells ; femora black at base, testaceous at apex ; tibiae testaceous 

 at base, black at apex ; tarsi entirely black, each joint emitting 

 strong black spines j claws very strong and black, pulvilli pale 

 yellow. 



Hab. Moreton Bay, North Australia, where a single specimen 

 was taken by Mr. Gibbon, and is in that gentleman's collection. 

 This species is dedicated to Mr. Frederick Grant, a most diligent 

 collector of British Diptera. 



