782 LIST OF D1PTERA. 



gold colour, silvery behind the eyes, clothed beneath with hoary 

 hairs ; crown pitchy ; a broad black stripe between the eyelets and 

 the feelers ; face fringed with bristles along half the length from 

 thebase; epistoma not prominent: eyes dark red, not hairy ; sucker and 

 palpi black ; palpi beset with black bristles : feelers black, as long as the 

 face; third joint very long, much more than six times the length of 

 the second, slightly concave above, flat beneath, increasing in depth 

 near the tip, which is truncated ; bristle a little longer than the third 

 joint, its second joint long, more than twice the length of the first ; 

 third tapering, rather hairy : chest adorned with four black stripes : 

 abdomen cylindrical, a little longer than the chest, adorned with 

 three stripes of hoary lustre ; the side stripes broader and more dis- 

 tinct than the middle stripe : legs black, long, stout, clothed with 

 black hairs and bristles ; foot-cushions and claws back : wings black, 

 rather paler along the hind borders ; wing-ribs and veins black ; tip 

 cross-vein forming a slightly obtuse angle with the fourth longitu- 

 dinal vein, very slightly waving from the base to the tip, joining the 

 border a little above the tip of the wing : lower cross-vein with two 

 distinct curves, the lower inward, the other outward ; scales white, 

 with brown borders. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 

 13 lines. 

 a. Hong Kong, China. Presented by J. C.Bowring, Esq. 



Div. H. Erycinae, Desv. Essai Myod. 142. 



Group I. Phryno, Desv. Essai Myod. 143. 



Group II. Koeselia, Desv. Essai Myod. 145. 



Note. — Desvoidy has lately placed the two preceding groups 

 with the Erythroceratce. (See p. 763.) 



Tachin-v antiqua, Meig. Dipt. iv. 412, 300. Zett. Dipt. Scand. iii. 

 1056, 50. T. pallipes Var /3., Fall. Muse. 22, 44. Eusigaster 

 antiqua, Maeq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. ii. 117, 5. Eoeselia antiqua, 

 Meig. Dipt. vii. 253, 1. pi. 72. /. 6. 



a. England. Presented by F. Walker, Esq. 



Group III. Erycia, Desv. Essai Myod. 146. 

 Group IV. Zenais, Desv. Essai Myod. 148. 



Group V. Zaira, Desv. Essai Myod. 150. 



Group VI. Zaida, Desv. Essai Myod. 150. 



