in the Collection of W. W. Saunders, Esq. 231 



Male. — Tawny, shining, pubescent; head testaceous, with a 

 black stripe, which is narrower in front, and with a black band on 

 the face ; arista black ; abdomen subfusiform, longer and narrower 

 than the thorax, with two indistinct blackish stripes ; legs rather 

 long and slender ; wings slightly luteous, greyish along the hind 

 border, with four or five irregular brown stripes, of which the 

 darkest and most regular is along the costa, the latter is slightly 

 dilated beyond the middle; radial vein curved towards the costa; 

 cubital vein slightly curved towards the praebrachial, opposite the 

 curve of the radial; tip of the praebrachial curved towards the 

 cubital ; discal transverse vein very oblique, parted by hardly one 

 fourth of its length from the border and by a little more than its 

 length from the praebrachial transverse vein. 



Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 4 lines. 



Celebes. 



Sub-fam. G. Psilides. 



Cleigaster, Macq. ; Epistoma setosa. 

 Chyliza, Fall. ; Epistoma nuda. 



Sub-fam. 7. Oscinides. 



Genus Oscinis, Fabr. 



Oscinis scita. 



Fcem. — Nigra, capite apud oculos fulvo subtus albido, antennis 

 testaceis articuli 3' apice nigro, pectore thoracisque lateribus 

 testaceis, his nigro bimaculatis, abdomine basi fasciisque 

 interruptis fulvis, alis limpidis apud costam exteriorem 

 fuscis. 

 Female. — Black ; head tawny above along the eyes, whitish 

 beneath ; antennae testaceous ; third joint at the tip and arista 

 black ; pectus and sides of the thorax pale testaceous, the latter 

 with a black spot on each side ; abdomen tawny at the base and 

 with a tawny interrupted band on the fore border of each segment; 

 underside pale t^taceous, with interrupted black bands ; wings 

 limpid ; apical third part brown for half the breadth from the 

 costa ; veins testaceous, black towards the tips ; halteres whitish. 

 Length of the body 1 g line ; of the wings 3 lines. 

 South America. 



