LIST OF DIPTERA. 887 



hairs ; palpi black, beset with black bristles : feelers black, as long 

 as tbe face ; third joint pitchy, slender, linear, rounded at the tip, 

 about four times the length of the second ; bristle much longer than 

 the third joint : chest greenish blue, striped with purple ; hind part 

 blue, tinged with purple : breast green, adorned with blue and pur- 

 ple : abdomen bright green, hardly longer than broad, a little 

 broader and much shorter than the chest : legs black, clothed with 

 black hairs and bristles ; foot-cushions pitchy : wings colourless ; 

 wing-ribs and veins tawny ; veins pitchy towards the tips ; tip cross- 

 vein joined by an outward curve with the fourth longitudinal vein, 

 straight fromthence till near the tip, where it is almost impercepti- 

 bly curved inward ; lower cross-vein curved inward ; scales white, 

 with pale yellow borders. Length of the body 2f lines ; of the 

 wings 5 lines. 

 a. New Holland. Presented by J. Hunter, Esq. 



Musca Solaia, n. s., fem. Viridis, capite albo micante, thorace vittis 

 duabus cyaneis, scutello cyaneo-viridi, abdominis basi et segmen- 

 torum 2° et 3° marginibus posticis parpureo-cyaneis, palpis anten- 

 nisque fulvis, pedibus piceis, tibiis ferrugineis, alis sublimpidis. 

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

 with white lustre ; a pitchy stripe fringed with bristles between the 

 eyelets and the feelers ; epistoma tawny, slightly prominent ; sides 

 of the face beset with bristles for near half the length from the base: 

 eyes red ; fore part flat, composed of larger facets than those else- 

 where : sucker pitchy, clothed at the tip with pale tawny hairs ; 

 palpi tawny, beset with black bristles : feelers dull tawny, as long 

 as the face ; third joint nearly linear, very slightly convex above, 

 flat beneath, rounded at the tip, full four times the length of the 

 second joint ; bristle dark tawny, feathered with black hairs, much 

 longer than the third joint : chest green, slightly covered with 

 white bloom, adorned with two indistinct blue stripes ; scutcheon 

 bluish green : abdomen green, obconical, equal to the chest in 

 length and breadth ; first segment and hind borders of the two 

 following segments dark purplish blue: legs pitchy, clothed with 

 black hairs and bristles ; shanks ferruginous ; foot-cushions tawny : 

 wings nearly colourless ; wing-ribs and veins tawny ; veins pitchy 

 towards the tips ; tip cross-vein forming a slightly obtuse angle with 

 the fourth longitudinal vein, almost straight, but with an indistinct 

 inward curve along the whole length, joining the border a little 

 above the tip of the wing ; lower cross-vein nearly straight, but hav- 

 ing slight traces of the two usual curves ; scales white, with pale 

 yellow borders. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 



