LIST OF DIPTEEA. 901 



Musca australis, Macq. Voy. de Leguillon, Dipt. Exot. ii. 3, 152, 6, 



pi. 20, /. 10. 

 a. New Holland. Presented by the Haslar Hospital. 



Musca basilaris, Macq. Dipt. Exot. ii. 3, 153, 8. 

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



Musca Alpesa, n. s., mas. Nigra, capite albo micante, thoraci vittis 

 tribus latis canis, abdomine fulvo flavo-micante basi vittaque ni- 

 gris, antennis palpis pedibusque nigris, alis limpidis. 

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

 ed with white lustre ; epistoma prominent ; sides of the face fringed 

 with bristles along the whole length : eyes red, meeting on the 

 crown ; fore part flat, its facets much larger than those elsewhere : 

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

 der, long, curved, beset with black bristles : feelers black, shorter 

 than the face ; third joint slightly decreasing in depth from the base 

 to the tip, which is rounded, about four times the length of the se- 

 cond joint ; bristle twice the length of the third joint : chest black, 

 adorned with three broad hoary stripes : abdomen obconical, pale 

 tawny, a little shorter but hardly broader than the chest, adorned 

 with pale yellow reflections, black at the base, and having a black 

 stripe which tapers from the base to the tip : legs black, clothed 

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

 less ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny towards the base ; tip 

 cross-vein forming an obtuse angle with the fourth longitudinal 

 vein, very slightly curved inward along the whole length, joining 

 the border a short distance above the tip of the wing ; lower cross- 

 vein with two very slight curves, the lower inward, the other out- 

 ward ; scales pale tawny. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the 

 wings 7 lines. 

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



Musca Taitensis, Macq. Dipt. Exot. ii. 3, 153, 7, pi. 20, /. 8. 

 a. New Zealand. Presented by Dr. Sinclair. 



Musca Osiris ? Wied. Auss. Ziveif. ii. 420, 62. 

 a. Egypt. Presented by Sir Gardner Wilkinson. 



Musca antiquissima, n. s., fem. Cana, capite fiavo micante, abdo- 

 minis lateribus basi fulvis, palpis antennis pedibusque nigris, 

 alis limpidis basi subfulvis. 



Body hoary, clothed with black hairs and bristles : head 

 adorned with pale yellow lustre along the borders of the eyes : epi- 



