572 list of diptera. 



3. Laxenecera nigro-cuprea. 



Nigro-cuprea, albo pilosa ; abdomen fasciis interruptis albo tomen- 

 tosis ; alte subcinerece ; lialteres fulvi. 



Blackish cupreous. Head black, clothed with whitish hairs, 

 aud ou the hinder pari with some black hairs. Face with black 

 hairs. Mystax with slender white bristles. Proboscis, antemis 

 and legs black. Thorax with whitish hairs; a few black bristles on 

 each side. Hind borders of the abdominal segments with inter- 

 rupted bands of white down. Le^s with whitish hairs and with a 

 few short black bristles ; tarsi beneath with gilded tomentum. 

 Wings slightly grayish ; veins black, tawny at the base and along 

 the cosla. Halteres tawny. Length of the body 7 lines; of the 

 wings 12 lines. 



a. Port Natal. From Mr. Plant's collection. 



East Indies. 



4. Laxeneceea albibarbis. 



Nigra ; barba alba ,• mystax maris niger, foem. albus ; abdominis 

 segmenta albo fasciata ; tibiae fiavicantcs ; ala flavescentes. 



Laxenecera albibarbis, Macq. Dipt. Exot. i. 2, 78, 2, pi. 7, f. 4. 

 Acurana sexfasciata ? Diptera Saundersiana, Pt. 2, 107. 



Bengal. 



a. East Indies. From Mr. Saunders' collection. 



5. Laxenecera flavibarbis. 



Nigra; barba flava ; mystax maris niger, foem. flavus ; abdominis 

 segmenta flavo fasciata ; tibia fuscce, albido hirtce ; alee hya- 

 lince, basi fiavescentes. 



Laxenecera flavibarbis, Macq. Dipt. Exot. i. 2, 77, 1. 

 Laphria Unicornis ? Guer. Icon. Regne Anim. Ins. pi. 94, f. 1 . 

 Texte, in. 536. 



Bengal. 



Laphria Bengalensis, Wied. may beloug to this genus. 



Genus 14. TAPINOCEKA. 



Caput mystace conspicuo. Proboscis porrecta. Antenna} tri- 

 articulatffi, nou stylate, insertione infima ; articulus 3us obtusus. 

 Oviductus brevis, venae cubitalis furca antica simplex. 



Tapinocera, Macq. Dipt. Exot. i. 2, 78. 

 Laphria, p., Wied. 



