808 LIST OF DIPTERA 



Idia Procula, n. s., fem. Nigra, capite flavo-albo, thorace piceo, vit' 

 tis quatuor cinereis, pectore chalybeo cupreoque vario, abdomine 

 cupreo-nigro. lateribus cano maculatis, ventre basi fulvo^ anten- 

 nis pedibusque ferrugineis, femoribus nigris, alls sublimpidis 

 basi subfuscis. 



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

 with a yellowish white covering, clothed beneath with white hairs ; 

 epistoma prominent ; face hoary, its sides without bristles : eyes 

 dark red : sucker black, clothed towards the tip with tawny hairs ; 

 palpi tawny, black and beset with black bristles towards the tip : 

 feelers dark ferruginous, nearly as long as the face ; third joint flat 

 above, slightly convex beneath, truncated at the tip ; bristle black, 

 tawny towards the base, more than twice the length of the third 

 joint : chest pitchy, adorned with four indistinct gray stripes; sides 

 adorned with a pale tawny covering, which also adorns most part of 

 the breast ; the latter is tinged with steel and copper-colour ; border 

 of the scutcheon hoary: abdomen black, with a slight coppery tinge, 

 nearly elliptical, a little broader and shorter than the chest ; a large 

 hoary spot on each side of every segment ; underside tawny towards 

 the base : legs black, clothed with black hairs and bristles ; shanks 

 and feet ferruginous ; claws black ; foot-cushions tawny : wings 

 nearly colourless, pale brown at the base ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins 

 black, pitchy at the base; tip cross-vein forming a very obtuse angle 

 with the fourth longitudinal vein, slightly waving from thence to the 

 tip, joining the border just above the tip of the wing ; lower cross- 

 vein with two slight curves, the lower inward, the other outward ; 

 scales pale yellow. Length of the body 3£ lines ; of the wings 6 

 lines. 



a. Africa ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



b. ? 



Idia fasciata, Meig. Dipt. v. 9, 1, pi. 42,/ 14 — 17. Desv. Essai 

 Myod. 422, 6. Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. ii. 246, 1. I. lunatata, 

 var ? 



a. France. 



Idia lunata, Wied. Auss. Zweif. ii. 351, 6. Musca lunata, Fabr. 



Syst. And. 292, 44. Loew, Ent. Zeit. Stettin v. 19, 1. 

 a. ? 



Group II. Rhinia, Desv. Essai Myod. 422. 



Idia testacea, Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. ii. 246, 3. Rhinia testacea, 



Desv. Essai Myod. 423, 1 . 

 a. Isle of France. 



