LIST OF DIPTERA„ 



pitchy towards the tips ; tip cross-vein forming a somewhat obtuse 

 angle with the fourth longitudinal vein, slightly curved inward near 

 the base, straight from thence to the tip, joining the border at some 

 distance above the tip of the wing ; lower cross-vein with an almost 

 imperceptible inward curve along its lower half, and with a more de- 

 cided outward curve along its upper half ; scales yellowish white, 

 dingy. Length of the body 8£ lines ; of the wings 17 lines. 



Trixa scutellata, Neivman, Ent. Mag.i. 507. 

 a. England. 



Trixa dorsalis, Meig. Dipt. iv. 225, 5. Macq. Hist. Nat Dipt. ii. 



97, 5. Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 2me serie, vi. 104, 7. 

 a. England. 



Trixa variegata, Meig. Dipt. iv. 225, 6. Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. 



ii. 98, 6. Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 2me serie, vi. 104, 8. 

 a. England. 



Trixa apicalis, n. s. Cana, capite fulvo, thorace nigro trivittato, ab- 



domine piceo, segmentorum marginibus anticis canis, antennis 



ferrugineis apice piceis, pedibus nigris, alis subcinereis, basi 



nervique transversi postici marginibus subfuscis. 



Body pitchy, clothed with black hairs and bristles : head and 



chest covered with hoary bloom : head tawny ; sides of the face 



fringed with bristles along nearly half the length from the base : 



eyes bright red : sucker pitchy, clothed with tawny hairs ; palpi 



tawny, clothed with black hairs : feelers ferruginous ; third joint 



pitchy at the tip, a little longer than the second ; bristle downy, less 



than twice the length of the third joint : chest adorned with three 



very slender black stripes : abdomen elliptical, a little longer than 



the chest ; a broad, hoary band on the fore border of each segment : 



legs black, clothed with black hairs and bristles : foot-cushions taw- 



ny : wings slightly gray ; wing-ribs and veins tawny ; veins pitchy 



toward the tips ; lower cross-vein and fore borders slightly clouded 



with brown ; scales dingy white. Length of the body 7 lines ; of 



the wings 12 lines. 



Miltogramma, Meigen. 



Miltogramma punctata, Meig. Dipt. iv. 228, 3. Desv. Essai. 



Myod. 93, 2. Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. ii. 153, 2. Curt. Brit. 



Ent. 529. Zett. Dipt. Scand. iii. 1204, 3. Tachina oestracea, 



Fall. Muse. 10, 17, var. 

 a. England. 



