xcviii Descriptions of Diptera. 



Trupanea pukpurea, Feni. 



Atra, pilis nigris hirta, scutello thoracisque lateribus piceis, abdomine purpureo seg- 

 mentorum marglnibm posticis fulvis, antennis nigris rufo-cinctis, pedibus piceis, 

 tarsis fulvis, alis foiscis. 



Body black, clothed with black hairs : a tawny line clothed with pale tawny hairs 

 along the borders of the eyes ; epistorna convex, very thickly beset with black bristles : 

 eyes bronzed ; fore part flat, its facets much larger than those elsewhere : sucker 

 black, clothed at the tip with tawny hairs: palpi black, thickly beset with black 

 bristles : feelers black; first and second joints beset with black bristles ; second red, 

 paler at the base : chest beset on each side and behind with black bristles ; scutcheon 

 and sides of the chest pitchy: abdomen purple, shiniug, linear and clothed with 

 black hairs towards the base, obconical and clothed with tawny hairs towards the tip ; 

 hind borders of the segments dark tawny ; under side clothed with tawny hairs : legs 

 pitchy, thickly clothed with black hairs and bristles ; feet tawny ; claws black, tawny 

 at the base; foot-cushions yellow; wings brown, darker at the base and along part of 

 the fore border ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins ferruginous ; poisers tawny. Length of the 

 body 6^ lines ; of the wings 13 lines. 



Para. 



Mallophora tricolor, Mas. 



Atra, nigro-hirta, capite pilis albis ornato, tkorace rufo trivittato, abdominis medio fulvo 

 apice rufo, antennis rufis basi nigris, pedibus nigris, tibiis tarsisque posticis fiavis, 

 alis limpidis. 



Body black, clothed with black hairs : head with a ferruginous tinge, thickly 

 clothed beneath with black and white hairs, having a white line along the eyes ; 

 epistoma or front of the face convex, clothed tow r ards the feelers with black hairs, and 

 in front with longer and much more numerous pale yellow hairs : eyes black ; fore 

 part flat, its facets much larger than those elsewhere : sucker black, clothed at the tip 

 with tawny hairs : feelers red ; first and second joints beset with black bristles ; first 

 joint black : neck tufted with black hairs : chest deep velvet-like black, adorned with 

 three dark red stripes : breast tinged with brown : abdomen obconical, much narrower 

 but hardly longer than the chest ; middle segments for one-third of the length tawny, 

 with whitish hind borders, clothed with pale yellow hairs ; segments thence to the tip 

 red, clothed with yellow hairs : legs black, clothed with black hairs, armed with black 

 spines ; hind-shanks pale yellow, clothed with pale yellow hairs ; hind-feet darker 

 yellow, beset beneath with short black bristles ; foot-cushions brown : wings colour- 

 less ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black, pitchy along the fore border ; poisers tawny. 

 Length of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



Para. 



Mallophoba albifrons, Fem. 



Atra, nigro-hirta, capite pilis albis ornato, antennis pedibusque nigris, alis fuscis cijaneo 

 nitentibus basi et ad costam nigris. 



Body black, thickly clothed with black hairs : crown and face partly clothed with 



