870 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



Musca chloropyga, Wied. Zool. Mag. ii. 44. Auss. Zweif. ii. 

 400, 28. 



a. South Africa. Presented by Dr. A. Smith.- 



b. Cape. 



c. ? 



Musca flaviceps. Lucilia flaviceps, Macq. Dipt. Exot. ii. 2, 145, 



23, pi. 18./. 1. 

 a. Madras. Presented by Walter Elliot, Esq. 



Musca orientalis. Lucilia orientals, Macq. Dipt. Exot. ii. 2, 145, 



22, pi. 18,/. 2. 

 a. Madras. Presented by Walter Elliot, Esq. 



Musca megacephala, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iv. 317, 18. Syst. Anil. 289, 



27. Wied. Auss. Zweif. ii. 399, 27. 

 a. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Rev. D. F. Morgan. 



Musca Elara, n. s., fern. Aureo-viridis, capite albo micante, thora- 

 cis segmentorum marginibus posticis nigro-cyaneis, palpis fulvis, 

 antennis piceis, pedibus ferrugineis, femoribus nigro-cyaneis, 

 alls limpidis basi nigro-fuscis. 



Body bright golden-green, thinly clothed with black hairs and 

 bristles : head adorned with white reflections, tawny and clothed 

 with short white hairs in front ; epistoma slightly prominent ; sides 

 of the face beset with bristles at the base : eyes pitchy or dark red : 

 sucker black, ferruginous and clothed with tawny hairs at the tip ; 

 palpi tawny : feelers pitchy, shorter than the face ; third joint full 

 four times the length of the second, slightly increasing in depth 

 from the base to the tip, which is rounded ; bristle black, very much 

 longer than the third joint, deeply fringed : breast partly blue : ab- 

 domen nearly elliptical, a little shorter than the chest ; hind borders 

 of the segments blackish blue; last segment brighter and more gold- 

 en than the rest of the body : legs dark ferruginous, clothed with 

 black hairs and bristles ; thighs mostly bluish black ; foot-cushions 

 pitchy : wings colourless, dark brown at the base ; wing-ribs and 

 veins black ; tip cross-vein forming a right angle with the fourth 

 longitudinal vein, curved inward before half its length, straight 

 from thence to the tip, where it has an almost imperceptible outward 

 curve; lower cross-vein with two curves, the lower inward, shorter 

 but not deeper than the other, which is outward ; scales white, with 

 very pale yellow borders. Length of the body 3 — 3£ lines ; of the 

 wings 7 — 8 lines. 

 a. South Africa. Presented by Dr. A. Smith. 



