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Genus Musca, Linn. 



Musca ruficornis. 



Foem. — Nigra, capite cinereo, peristoraate ferrugineo, fronta- 

 libus obscure ferrugineis, palpis fulvis, antennis rufescentibus, 

 abdomine nigro-viridi, alis Jimpidis, venis fulvis. 



Female. — Black ; head with cinereous tomentum ; ferruginous 

 about the peristoma ; frontalia dark, ferruginous ; palpi tawny ; 

 antennae reddish ; thorax with a tawny callus on each side in 

 front ; abdomen dark green, broader and shorter than the thorax ; 

 wings limpid ; veins tawny, veinlet between the cubital and the 

 prasbrachial veins brown ; discal transverse vein slightly undu- 

 lating. 



Length of the body 4| lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



Tasmania. 



Genus MoRELLiA, Desv. 



Morellia mdecora. 



Foem, — Nigra cinereo-tomentosa, capite et antennarum articulo 

 2° ferrugineis, thorace subvittato, abdomine viridescente nigro 

 glaucescente, alis cinereis, alulis testaciis. 



Female. — Black, with slight cinereous tomentum ; head ferru- 

 ginous in front and beneath; second joint of the antennae ferru- 

 ginous ; third extending to the epistoma, full four times the length 

 of the second ; thorax indistinctly striped ; abdomen greenish 

 black, with glaucous reflections ; wings grey ; veins black ; prae- 

 brachial vein much curved at its flexure, almost straight from 

 thence to its end, which is hardly in front of the tip of the 

 wing ; discal transverse vein slightly undulating, parted by much 

 less than its length from the border, and by very little less 

 than its length from the flexure of the prasbrachial ; alulae tes- 

 taceous. 



Length of the body 4| lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 



Ne w Stju ^t ]^ 'yV alfis. 



In the length of the third joint of the antennae this species agrees 

 with Calliphora, and not with Morellia. 



