DIPTEROUS FAMILY PANTOPUTHALMIDiE. 



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from above. The other principal external characters are as fol- 

 lows: — Head : frontal and vertical triangles smoke-grey pollinose, 

 ocellar tubercle dark brov^^n ; face and jowls sepia-coloured, jowls 

 clothed with hair of similar hue, inner orbits bordering face 

 narrowly pinkish-buff pollinose ; facial beak represented by a low, 

 elongate oval, tawny-brown area, which is scarcely noticeable ; 

 occiput shimmering golden-ochraceous-buff pollinose, with darker 

 reflections, and clothed with fine yellowish hair ; falpi similar 

 in colour to those of $ , but distal segment considerably (about 

 one-third) shorter than second; antennce sepia-coloured, style 

 paler, third (compound) segment cuneate, flattened from side to 

 side, and deepest (in a dorso-ventral direction) at about one- 

 fourth of its lengtli from the base. Thorax : rather less than 



Text-figure 7. 



Presumptive ^ of Pantophthalmus consj>iciius Austen. X IJ. (Prom a specimen 

 in the Hope Department, Universitj' Museum, Oxford). 



posterior half of scutellum blackish-brown, clothed with brownish 

 hair, dividing line between infuscated and silvery areas straight ; 

 dorsum of scutum, except lateral borders immediately above 

 pleurae, clothed with fine, short, reflexed, whitish hair, lateral 

 borders clothed with longer hair, light ochraceous buff in front 

 of, and yellowish behind transverse suture, under side of 

 postalar calli blackish-brown ; viewed at a slight angle from 

 behind, dorsum of scutum shows unpigmented longitudinal 

 stripes, corresponding to the paired blaclc stripes and commence- 

 ment of a median stripe exhibited by the $ ; pleurre and lateral 

 borders of pectus dark clove-brown or blackish-brov/n, clothed 

 with similarly coloured hair, remainder of pectus light ochraceous- 

 buff, clothed with fine, silky hair of similar colour. Abdomen : 



