LIST OF DIPTERA. 883 



pitchy stripe between the eyelets and the feelers ; epistoma slightly 

 prominent ; sides of the face without bristles : eyes pitchy : sucker 

 and palpi black, the latter beset with black bristles : feelers black, 

 much shorter than the face ; third joint flat above, slightly convex 

 beneath, very obliquely truncated at the tip, more than twice the 

 length of the second joint : chest golden green on the disk, blue 

 tinged with purple on the borders ; scutcheon bright purple : abdo- 

 men purple, obconical, a little broader and longer than the chest ; 

 disk of the hinder part green : legs black, clothed with black hairs 

 and bristles ; thighs purple, varied with green ; foot-cushions 

 pitchy : wings colourless ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny to- 

 wards the base ; tip cross-vein forming a very obtuse angle with 

 the fourth longitudinal vein, almost straight along the whole 

 length, joining the border a little above the tip of the wing ; lower 

 cross- vein straight at the base and at the tip, the whole middle part 

 being occupied by a long, slight, inward curve ; scales whitish, 

 with tawny borders. Length of the body 3i lines ; of the wings 7 

 lines. 

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



Musca Fucina, n. s. Aureo-viridis, capite albo micante supra piceo, 

 abdominis basi cyaneo-viridi apice aureo, palpis antennisque pi- 

 ceis, pedibus nigrii, alis limpidis. 



Body clothed with black hairs and bristles : head adorned with 

 white lustre ; a pitchy stripe between the eyelets and the feelers ; 

 epistoma tawny, slightly prominent ; sides of the face fringed with 

 bristles at the base : eyes pitchy : sucker and palpi pitchy : feelers 

 pitchy, a little shorter than the face ; third joint full thrice the 

 length of the second, slightly decreasing in depth from the base to 

 the tip, which is rounded ; bristle black, very much longer than the 

 third joint : chest golden green, slightly tinged with white bloom : 

 abdomen obconical, golden green, bluish green at the base, golden 

 at the tip, a little broader and longer than the chest : legs black, 

 clothed with black hairs and bristles ; foot-cushions tawny : wings 

 colourless ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black, pitchy towards the base ; 

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

 gitudinal vein, irregularly and very slightly curved inward along 

 the whole length, joining the border at a short distance above the 

 tip of the wing ; lower cross-vein with two slight curves, the lower 

 inward, a little shallower than the other, which is outward ; scales 

 whitish. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 



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



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