898 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



with the fourth longitudinal vein, much curved inward near the 

 base, straight towards the tip, joining the border a little above the 

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

 inward, shorter than the other, which is outward ; scales very dark 

 gray, with dingy white borders. Length of the body 5 lines ; of 

 the wings 10 lines. 

 a. Fayal. From. Mr. Children's collection. 



Muse a Metilia, n. s., mas. Cinereo-nigra, scutello cyaneo, abdomine 

 cyaneo-nigro, palpis fulvis, antennis pedibusque nigris, alls limpi- 

 dis basi subfuscis. 



Body clothed with black hairs and bristles : head black, ferru- 

 ginous on each side of the epistoma, which is tawny and slightly 

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

 red ; fore part nearly flat, its facets larger than those elsewhere : 

 sucker black, clothed at the tip with tawny hairs ; palpi tawny, be- 

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

 linear, truncated at the tip, full four times the length of the second ; 

 chest and breast black, tinged with gray : scutcheon dark blue: ab- 

 domen elliptical, bluish black, a little broader but not longer than 

 the chest : legs black, clothed with black hairs and bristles : wings 

 colourless, brownish at the base ; wing-ribs and veins dark tawny ; 

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

 vein, very slightly curved inward, joining the border a little above 

 the tip of the wing ; lower cross-vein with a very slight inward 

 curve, almost straight from thence to the tip ; scales yellowish 

 white, with yellow borders. Length of the body 4 lines; of the 

 wings 8 lines. 

 a. Nepaul. From the Hardwicke bequest. 



Musca Pandia, n. s., fern. Nigro-cinerea, thorace nigro-quadrivit- 

 tato, abdomine albo-viridi, antennis pedibusque nigris, alis ci- 

 nereis. 



Body black, clothed with black hairs and bristles : head very 

 prominent about the base of the feelers, adorned in front with tawny 

 lustre, and along the outer borders of the eyes with hoary lustre, 

 which communicates with the sides of the face ; a broad pitchy fur- 

 rowed stripe between the eyelets and the feelers ; epistoma not pro- 

 minent ; sides of the face ferruginous, fringed with bristles at the 

 base : eyes red ; fore part slightly convex, its facets larger than 

 those elsewhere : sucker black, clothed at the tip with tawny hairs ; 

 palpi black (?): feelers black, shorter than the face ; third joint flat 

 above, slightly convex beneath, rounded at the tip, less than twice 



