LIST OF DIPTERA. 843 



Dexia Hyria, n. s., fem. Cana, capite ferrugineo, thoraee fusco 

 quadnvittato, abdomine ferrugineo fulvo micante, antennis pedi- 

 busque nigris, alls subcinereis. 



Body clothed with black hairs and bristles : head ferruginous, 

 clothed behind and beneath with pale tawny hairs : a pitchy stripe 

 widening from the eyelets to the feelers, and occupying the whole 

 breadth between the eyes ; epistoina prominent ; sides of the face 

 beset with bristles at the base ; middle part occupied by a high 

 ridge like that of Rutilia : eyes dark red ; fore part nearly flat, its 

 facets a little larger than those elsewhere : sucker black, pitchy and 

 clothed with tawny hairs at the tip : feelers black, very much 

 shorter than the face; third joint linear, rounded at the tip, more 

 than twice the length of the second joint ; bristle slightly hairy, lon- 

 ger than the third joint : chest and breast hoary : chest adorned 

 with four broad brown stripes : tip of the scutcheon and hind bor- 

 ders of the abdominal segments armed with a few black spines : ab- 

 domen ferruginous, longer and a little narrower than the chest, 

 adorned above with pale tawny reflections : legs black, clothed 

 with black hairs and bristles : wings slightly gray ; wing-ribs 

 pitchy ; veins black ; tip cross-vein forming an obtuse angle with 

 the fourth longitudinal vein, which sends forth a long stump be- 

 yond it, very slightly curved inward along the whole length, joining 

 the border a short distance above the tip of the wing ; lower cross- 

 vein with two distinct curves, the lower inward, not so deep as the 

 other, which is outward ; scales white, with pale tawny borders. 

 Length of the body 5 lines ; % of the wings 9 lines. 



a. Adelaide. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



Dexia anthracina, Meig. Dipt. v. 36, 3. 



a. England. 



b. ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



Dexia canina, Meig. Dipt. v. 47, 24, vii. 270, 12. Desv. Essai 

 Myod. 313, 6. ' Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. ii. 212, 2, pi. 15, /. 

 17. Zett. Dipt. Scand. iii. 1263, 1. Musca canina, Fabr. Sp. 

 Ins. ii. 440, 24. Ent. Syst. iv. 321, 38. Syst. Antl. 296, 60. 

 Gmel. Ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 2842, 185. Stew. El. ii. 258. Turt. 

 iii. 601 . Fall. Muse. 41, 9. Zett. Ins. Lapp. 653, 2. M. vo- 

 lets, Harr. Ex. 84, pi. 25, /. 12. 



a. England. 



b. France? 



