LIST OF DIPTERA. 697 



Trichopoda histrio, n. s. Nigra, capite aureo, piceo vittato, ihorace 

 fascia una vittisque quatuor fulvis ornato, scutello fulvo, abdo- 

 mine postico fasciis duabus latis interrupts Jlavis ornato, anten- 

 nis nigris, pedibus fulvis, tibiis posticis basi tarsisque posticis 

 nigris, tibiis posticis nigro fimbriatis, alis limpidis, ad costam 

 fuscisfulvo vittatis. 



Body black: head bright golden-colour, clothed with yellow 

 hairs on each side ; a pitchy stripe on the crown widens in front to 

 the cavity where the feelers repose, this is tawny and covered with 

 silvery glance: eyes dark red, with a slight brassy tinge: mouth 

 pitchy : palpi taway : feelers ferruginous : chest beset with a few 

 black bristles; fore part adorned with four tawny stripes, which 

 join a tawny band across the middle ; outer pair of stripes much 

 broader and more distinct than the inner pair ; scutcheon tawny : 

 hind part of the abdomen adorned with two broad interrupted yellow 

 bands : legs tawny, clothed with short black hairs ; feet pitchy to- 

 wards the tips ; claws and foot-cushions tawny ; tips of claws 

 black: hind feet and tips of hind shauks black; hind shanks 

 adorned with tufts of black hairs, extending along nearly the whole 

 length, but most thick at the tips : wings colourless, brown with 

 tawny streaks along the fore borders for half the breadth ; wing- 

 ribs and veins ferruginous ; scales white, with yellow borders ; poi- 

 sers tawny. Length of the body 4 — 5 lines ; of the wings 8 — 10 

 lines. 



Trichopoda lateralis, n. s. Nigra, capite fulvo, piceo vittato, iho- 

 race fascia una vittisque quatuor aureis ornato, abdominis lateri- 

 bus basi fulvis, antennis pedibusque nigris, tibiis posticis nigro 

 fimbriatis basi fulvis, alis nigro-fuscis, margine postico sub- 

 cinereo. 



Body black : head tawny, with a broad pitchy stripe on the 

 crown ; front adorned with yellowish white silky lustre : eyes pitchy : 

 feelers black : chest beset with some black bristles, adorned with a 

 very indistinct golden band across the middle, and with four golden 

 stripes, one on each side, and two shorter and more indistinct on the 

 back : breast covered with white lustre : abdomen linear, clothed 

 with black hairs, tawny on each side towards the base : legs black, 

 clothed with black hairs; claws tawny, with black tips; foot- 

 cushions yellow ; hind shanks tawny at the base, adorned with tufts 

 of black hairs which extend from near the base to the tip : wings 

 very dark brown along the fore border for more than half the 

 breadth : hind border slightly gray ; wing-ribs and veins black ; 



