806 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



elliptical : chest and abdomen deep blue tinged with purple and 

 green ; abdomen long-obconical, a little longer and narrower than 

 the chest: legs black, clothed with short black hairs: wings colour- 

 less, pale brown at the base, adorned with three brown spots, the 

 first extends from the fore border into the disk beyond the little cross- 

 vein, the second covers the lower cross-vein, the third occupies the 

 tip ; wing-ribs and veins black ; little cross-vein very oblique ; lower 

 cross-vein slightly curved outward near the base, straight from 

 thence to the tip ; scales small, pale yellow ; poisers black. Length 

 of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 

 a. Para. Presented by Gordon Graham, Esq. 



Chromatomyia ? distincta, n. s., fern. Cinereo-nigra, lata, capite 

 ferrugineo, pedibus alisque nigris. 



Body broad: head ferruginous, large on each side of the peris- 

 toma ; crown prominent in front ; epistoma not prominent ; sides of 

 the face without bristles: eyes small, pitchy, very convex; facets 

 extremely small : sucker black : chest and abdomen dull black 

 tinged with gray: chest clothed with short black hairs, shining on 

 each side of the front: abdomen obconical, as long and as broad as 

 the chest: legs black, clothed with short black hairs and bristles ; 

 foot-cushions pitchy : wings black ; wing-ribs and veins black ; third 

 longitudinal vein slightly angular at its junction with the lower 

 cross-vein ; scales small ? poisers black. Length of the body 3^ 

 lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 



a. Monte Video. Presented C. Darwin, Esq. 



Zona, n. g. 



Sucker very large : palpi short: feelers much shorter than the 

 face; third joint twice the length of the second ; bristle downy: 

 chest lengthened and tapering in front : abdomen short and broad : 

 legs rather long: wings long and narrow; middle cross-vein very 

 oblique, tip cross-vein forming a slightly obtuse angle with the lon- 

 gitudinal vein. 



Zona violacea. Tephritis violacea, G. R. Gray, Griffith's Cur. 

 Anim. King. Ins. ii. pi 128,/. 1. 



