LIST OF DIPTERA. 867 



a little larger than those elsewhere : sucker black, clothed at the tip 

 with tawny hairs ; palpi tawny, slender, beset with black bristles : 

 feelers bright pale ferruginous, shorter than the face; second joint 

 darker ; third joint linear, slender, rounded at the tip, full four 

 times the length of the second ; bristle black, deeply feathered, very 

 much longer than the third joint ; its first and second joints ferru- 

 ginous, very short : chest golden-green, adorned with white spots on 

 each side, and with two short white stripes in front : abdomen obco- 

 nical, golden-green, shorter and a little broader than the chest, 

 adorned on each side with two white spots, one on the second, the 

 other on the fourth segment ; hind borders of the segments armed 

 with spines : legs black, clothed with black hairs and bristles : 

 wings colourless, blackish brown, with a colourless spot at the base ; 

 wing-ribs and veins black ; tip cross-vein forming an obtuse angle 

 with the fourth longitudinal vein, straight from thence to the tip, 

 joining the border at some distance above the tip of the wing; 

 lower cross-vein with two almost imperceptible curves, the lower in- 

 ward, the other outward ; scales large, brown, white towards the 

 base. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 

 a. New Holland. Presented by the Eutomological Club. 



Group XV. Aminia, Desv. Essai Myod. 443. 



Dexia leoniua, Fair. Syst. Ent. 776, 12. Ent. Syst. iv. 318, 24. 

 Syst. Anil. 290, 33. Wied. Auss. Zweif. ii. 389, 10. Rutilia 

 leonina ? Desv. Essai Myod. 320, 1. Aminia imperialis, Desv. 

 Essai Myod. 443, 1. A. leonina ? Desv. Essai Myod. 444, 2. 

 Macq. Dipt. Exot. ii. 117, l,pL 14, /. 5. 



a. New Holland. Presented by the Haslar Hospital. 



b. New Holland. From Mr. Argent's collection. 



c. New Holland. 



Group XVI. Amphibolia, Macq. Dipt. Exot. ii. 122. 



Dexia Valentina. Amphibolia Valentina, Macq. Dipt. Exot. ii. 122, 

 1, pi. 14,/. 9. 



a. Van Dieman's Land. Presented by the Rev. Augustus Beaufort. 



b. Van Dieman's Land. Presented by the Rev. T. Ewing. 



c. West Australia. From Mr. Clifton's collection. 



d. New Holland. From Mr. Argent's collection. 



