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tinct ; poisers white ; wings hyaline, iridescent, much longer than the 

 body ; costal area divided into three areolets, with testaceous nervures, 

 terminating in a black stigma ; there are tour spurious nervures, the first 

 abbreviate'^ and the anal one Lent towards the margin ; the legs are 

 reddish-yellow except the apex ot the tarsi, which is black ; the inter- 

 mediate pair are smaller and shorter than the others ; anterior thighs are 

 much incrassated, and the tibii€ terminate in a spine; the posterior thighs 

 are elongated ; abdomen Hat above ; anus yellow, as is sometimes the 

 margin of the ventral segments. 



FAMILY K^^FIl).^:. 



436. Em PIS LUCTUOSA Kirhy. — Length ot body, including wings, 3 

 lines. Taken with the preceding. 



Body entirely black. I'roboscis very little longer than the head ; 

 wings a little embrowned, with a large black stigma, iridescent, nervures 

 black. 



[312.] 437. F^MFis <-enici;lata A7;/'J'.- -Length of body 3 lines. 

 Taken with the preceding. 



Very similar to the preceding, but not so black ; wings slightly em- 

 browned, beautifully iridescent : legs, where the shank is united to the 

 thigh, white ; proboscis nearly as long as the thorax. 



FAMILY HOMin LIAD.€. 



438. BoMP.YLius MAJOR Z///«.- Length of body, including pro- 

 boscis, 7 lines ; excluding do., 5 lines. Expansion of wings 1 in. to ^ 

 inch. Taken in I.at. 65 . 



[313.] Body black, thickly covered above with yellowish, soft, but 

 erect hairs ; underneath the hairs are whiter, but those on the breast, at 

 the origin of the legs, are black ; wings with the anterior half longitudinally 

 black-brown, the dark color on the inner side being sinuated or uneven ; 

 the posterior half of the wings is transparent with black nervures ; the 

 legs are long, and pale-yellow ; but the tarsi are reddish-black at the 

 extremity ; the eyes are triangular. 



[This species is taken in Europe, and in N. America in Nova Scotia, 

 New York, (ix.j 



