884 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



Musca Phellia, n. s., fem. Cyaneo-viridis albo tecta, capite supra 

 nigro, scutello cyaneo, palpis fulvis, antennis luteis, pedibus pi- 

 ceis, femoribus nigro-viridibus, alis limpidis. 

 Body thinly clothed with black hairs and bristles : head thickly 

 covered with white bloom, which is least apparent on the black 

 stripe between the eyelets and the feelers, thinly clothed beneath 

 with pale yellow hairs ; epistoma tawny, slightly prominent; sides 

 of the face beset with a very few bristles at the base : eyes coppery 

 red ; fore part flat, composed of larger facets than those elsewhere ; 

 sucker pitchy, clothed with tawny hairs ; palpi tawny, beset with 

 black bristles : feelers bright luteous, as long as the face ; third 

 joint about six times the length of the second, linear, rounded at 

 the tip ; bristle tawny, longer than the third joint, feathered with 

 black hairs : chest bluish green, covered with white bloom, which is 

 interrupted in front by two stripes ; scutcheon blue : abdomen 

 greenish blue, a little longer than broad, rather shorter and broader 

 than the chest, covered at the tip and beneath with white bloom : 

 legs pitchy ; thighs blackish green ; foot-cushions pale tawny : wings 

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

 tip cross-vein forming an obtuse angle with the fourth longitudinal 

 vein, quite straight from the base to tip, joining the border a little 

 above the tip of the wing ; lower cross-vein slightly waving along 

 its whole length, in which it forms four curves ; scales white. 

 Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 

 a. North Bengal. From Miss Campbell's collection. 



Musca Racilia, n. s. Viridis, capite nigro subtus purpureo, thorace 

 vittis aneis, scutello cyaneo, abdomine cyaneo-iriridi, antennis 

 piceis basi nigris, palpis pedibusque nigris, alis fusco-cinereis. 

 Body black, beset with a few black hairs and bristles : head 

 black above, purple varied with blue and green beneath ; epistoma 

 prominent ; sides of the face beset with bristles at the base : eyes 

 pitchy ; fore part flat, its facets larger than those elsewhere : sucker 

 black, clothed at the tip with tawny hairs ; palpi black, beset with 

 black bristles : feelers black, nearly as long as the face ; third joint 

 pitchy, linear, rounded at the tip, more than thrice the length of 

 the second joint; bristle black, longer than the third joint : chest 

 green, adorned with indistinct brassy stripes ; hind part and scutcheon 

 blue : abdomen bluish green, obconical, a little shorter and broader 

 than the chest: legs black, clothed with black hairs and bristles ; 

 foot-cushions pitchy : wings gray, dark brown at the base, and 

 along the fore borders and on the sides of the veins ; wing-ribs and 

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



